Jumbo General March 09, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 34 Across and 44 Across? Connection from #766 Heroes, Low and Toltec are Philip Glass symphonies

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Crossword GK Jumbo 767 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 09, 2024

Across Clues

• Colourless gas with a chlorine-like odour, formed by an electric discharge in oxygen
• The annual flowering plant love-in-a-mist
• See 31
• Village in Hertfordshire best known for its film and TV studios
• Genus of yeasts including one which causes thrush
• 1963 novel by Alistair MacLean filmed by John Sturges in 1968
• György ___, Transylvanian-born composer whose works include the opera Le Grand Macabre
• Oscar-winning 1935 film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur that was Noel Coward’s film debut in a speaking role
• Stage name of Ian Fraser Kilmister of Hawkwind and Motörhead
• See 36
• Invitational international ice hockey tournament held on five occasions between 1976 and 1991
• 1979 album by Rainbow on which Ritchie Blackmore was reunited with Deep Purple bandmate Roger Glover
• The anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, also called the telencephalon
• Chief executive of the entertainment company Syco
• The insect Delia antiqua
• Scottish guitarist and singer-songwriter who was a member of the folk groups The Boys of the Lough and Five Hand Reel
• Cypriot sculptor who falls in love with one of his sculptures in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• American actor who was married to actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie
• Character in the The Addams Family in the form of a disembodied hand
• Social science associated with Margaret Mead and Bronislaw Malinowski
• See 47
• Chuck Berry song to which John Travolta and Uma Thurman dance in Quentin Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction
• Former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer created a baron in 2020
• 1988 children’s novel by Roald Dahl
• The sixth-largest city in Israel
• Term popularised by the practice of Dr Adolf Lorenz of Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century
• The third planet from the sun

Down Clues

• A statue, obelisk, column, etc. cut from one block of stone
• Australian tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1964 and 1965
• Black grape used in winemaking whose name literally means “young blackbird”
• Darren ___, former England footballer who played for Portsmouth, Spurs, Birmingham City, Wolves and Bournemouth
• Son of Polixenes who falls in love with Perdita in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
• American author and civil rights campaigner whose works include the novel If Beale Street Could Talk
• Disgraced cyclist who won the Tour de France in a record-breaking seven consecutive years
• Industrial town in South Yorkshire whose football team are nicknamed The Tykes
• Chinese text also called the Book of Changes
• Historical German county and duchy located between the Harz Mountains and the river Elbe
• A white ground of plaster and size used to prepare panels or canvas for painting
• Nickname of British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon
• Silk, wool, rayon, or cotton fabric with a transversely corded surface
• Juan ___, general elected three times as President of Argentina
• Poem by Edgar Allan Poe recited by Tom Hanks in the 2004 Coen Brothers film The Ladykillers
• The most popular cheese in the United Kingdom
• Square between Oxford Street and Bond Street, for example, on a standard UK Monopoly board
• Writer on whose stories the musical Guys and Dolls was based
• The skin of a peach or grape, for example
• Name given to Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar
• Plant that decays to form peat
• Home/personal computer produced by Commodore in 1977
• Jackson 5 single that topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970
• Area in South East England between the North and the South Downs
• The diameter of the opening through which light passes in an optical instrument such as a camera
• Song by Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie that was the 2016 Christmas number one
• Another name for Calvary
• The ___ Lads, 1960s sitcom featuring the characters Terry Collier and Bob Ferris
• See 27
• Teenager smuggled across the United States in the video game franchise and HBO TV series The Last of Us
• The capital of Niger