Jumbo General March 02, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17 Across, 33 Across and 44 Across? Connection from #765 Buster Crabbe, Benjamin Spock and George S Patton represented the United States at the Olympic Games

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Crossword GK Jumbo 766 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 02, 2024

Across Clues

• British pianist made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1941
• Sax ___, pen name of English novelist Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, best remembered for his series of novels featuring Dr Fu Manchu
• The ancient capital of Assyria, on the River Tigris
• Song written by Jimmy Webb in 1968, first recorded by Glen Campbell
• Town in Monmouthshire whose racecourse became the regular venue of the Welsh National in 1949
• American TV sci-fi drama series, created by Tim Kring, that ran from 2006 to 2010
• Former name for Madagascar
• With Vladimir, one of the two main characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• Variety of quartz, used as a gemstone, also called smoky quartz
• In the Old Testament, son of Boaz and Ruth who was the father of Jesse
• British actor whose films include Trading Places, A Private Function and A Room with a View
• Village in the Dominican Republic considered the first formal European settlement in the New World, founded by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage in 1493
• Eustacia ___, heroine of Thomas Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native
• The first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three releases
• 1977 album by David Bowie
• Compact masses of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reserves
• Punishment imposed by church authority as a condition of absolution
• Stage name of American rapper, record producer and actor Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, who was born Jonathan Davis
• Northern oceanic diving bird with black-and-white plumage and a long narrow bill
• Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, after whom a book of the Old Testament is named
• First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945
• A member of a Central American Indian people who dominated the valley of Mexico from about 950 until overrun by the Aztecs in 1160 AD
• The Battle of ___, fought in 1862, was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history
• Hollow cylindrical body part that connects the middle ear with the nasopharynx
• See 25
• A very fine resinous powder, especially of cuttlefish bone, formerly used to dry ink
• A lord of Antioch, ordered to kill Pericles, in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Down Clues

• 1985 Swedish film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on a novel by Reidar Jönsson
• A language of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
• The moth Endromis versicolora, found in the Palaearctic region
• American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen and Elliot Roberts
• American golfer whose PGA Tour wins include the Kemper Insurance Open in 2001
• 1942 film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington
• Alfred, Lord ___, Poet Laureate whose works include The Charge of the Light Brigade and Crossing the Bar
• Diurnal bird of prey with a long forked tail and long broad wings
• Term, first coined in 1818, for any human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels, most commonly the bicycle
• Portuguese footballer who was top goalscorer in the 1966 World Cup
• Caterina ___, Toronto-born actress best known for playing Dr Amelia Shepherd in Grey’s Anatomy and its spin-offs Private Practice and Station 19
• Port city in Mozambique that is the capital of the province of Cabo Delgado
• Town 6 miles west of Glasgow known as the “Cradle of the Royal Stewarts”
• In ancient Roman religion, a deity or spirit presiding over a thing or place
• 1937 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays Hugo Z Hackenbush
• Country whose capital is Hanoi
• City in the Belgian province of Liège that is the capital of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion
• American actress whose film roles include Jane Austen in Becoming Jane and Fantine in Les Misérables
• Swedish tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1988 and 1990
• Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens’s novel The Old Curiosity Shop is known
• In music, a sign at the beginning or end of a section directed to be repeated
• French international striker who played for Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United, Chelsea and Crystal Palace in the Premier League
• Michel ___, French footballer who won the Ballon d’Or three years in a row, 1983-85
• An enclosed and covered stall with a door in which an animal can be confined
• The largest and most important island in French Polynesia, whose capital is Papeete
• Country whose capital is Riga
• Dorothy’s dog in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz