Jumbo General February 24, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9 Across, 27 Across and 37 Across? Connection from #764 Silence, The Last Waltz and The Age Of Innocence are films directed by Martin Scorsese

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Crossword GK Jumbo 765 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 24, 2024

Across Clues

• Actor who played the title role in the film serial Tarzan the Fearless
• Camberwell-born actress and director who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in They Drive by Night and High Sierra
• See 31
• A machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines printed on an item
• Author of the play The Ghost Train who later played Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army
• Amsterdam-based football team who won the European Cup three times in a row in the 1970s
• See 16
• City in Russia, on the delta of the Volga River, 21m below sea level
• The capital of the Bahamas
• See 31
• See 50
• American paediatrician whose 1946 book Baby and Child Care was an international best-seller
• English historical novelist whose 1834 novel Rookwood features Dick Turpin as its leading character
• Character in the film Diamonds Are Forever played by Natalie Wood’s younger sister Lana
• Village in Bedfordshire with a zoo owned by the Zoological Society of London
• See 33
• In physics, the tendency of a body to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
• American general played by George C Scott in an Oscar-winning performance in a 1970 film
• In biology, an adjective meaning covered with stiff hairs or bristles
• American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer whose films include Singin’ in the Rain and An American in Paris
• 1976 album by Bob Dylan whose opening track is “55 Across”
• The second poem of T S Eliot’s Four Quartets
• Chinese tree cultivated for its round edible fruits
• 1930 jazz composition with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard
• Term for interviews with members of the public on a radio or television programme
• American singer and songwriter whose eponymous debut album won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album in 2003
• In chemistry, two valency electrons of opposite spin responsible for the formation of coordinate bonds
• A wind of force 12 or above on the Beaufort scale
• Australian tennis player who won three of the four Grand Slam events in 1958

Down Clues

• The North American name for swede
• 1977 film that spawned three sequels and three prequels
• Max ___, German painter who developed the technique of collage
• A tropical American shrub of the genus Plumeria, such as Plumeria rubra, whose flowers have a sweet overpowering scent
• British comedian whose real name was Charlie Olden
• Creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth, in Greek mythology
• Chief language of the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli
• Actress who played Jim Hacker’s wife Annie in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
• The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia
• A language related to Eskimo
• A crease-resistant acrylic fibre created by DuPont in 1941
• In Persian poetry, a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
• Joni Mitchell song that gave Matthews Southern Comfort a number one single in 1970
• The distance from the bow of an anchored vessel to the anchor
• A type of percussion orchestra common in the East Indies
• Cocktail that originated in Harry’s Bar in Venice
• Internationally recognised identity card first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees
• Professional name of bassist, singer and actor Gordon Sumner
• Variety of the wild ass, Equus hemionus, that occurs in Tibet and surrounding regions
• Actor whose films include The Revenant, Don’t Look Up and Killers of the Flower Moon
• Harry ___, jockey whose 13 Classic winners include the Derby winners Felstead, Blenheim and Watling Street
• Group of volcanic islands in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Victoria
• See 32
• Arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the N European mainland
• Another name for the Latvian language
• Arachnid of warm dry regions with a long tail terminating in a venomous sting
• 1948 Howard Hawks Western giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail
• A unit of geological time within a period during which a series of rocks is formed
• The slow-moving Australian arboreal marsupial Phascolarctus cinereus
• A representation of the Hindu deity Shiva considered a symbol of male creative energy
• Cain’s eldest son, after whom a city was named