Jumbo General April 06, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11 Across, 28 Across and 42 Across? Connection from #770 Elizabeth Taylor, Connie Stevens and Debbie Reynolds were married to Eddie Fisher

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Crossword GK Jumbo 771 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 06, 2024

Across Clues

• Rock band fronted by Chrissie Hynde
• Town in on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne
• Country whose capital is Dhaka
• The fifth book of the Old Testament
• In law, a rule of evidence whereby a person is precluded from denying the truth of a statement of facts he has previously asserted
• Bread song written by David Gates that gave Ken Boothe a UK number one in October 1974
• See 45
• The former name, until 1964, of Malawi
• British R&B girl group, comprising Celena Cherry, Mariama Goodman and Heavenli Abdi, who had five UK top ten hits between 1998 and 2000
• Language created by by George Orwell in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Luigi ___, Italian composer whose final opera was Ulisse to his own libretto, completed in 1968
• Japan’s biggest UK hit single, from 1982
• 1850 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Sicilian city that is a twin town of Dubrovnik in Croatia
• A perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
• Asian republic occupying the island of Ceylon
• John ___, Scottish international midfielder who joined Aston Villa from Hibernian in 2018
• Dutch footballer who holds the record for FIFA World Cup finals goals for the Netherlands with seven
• Jo ___, comedian who formerly worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years
• F R Leavis or Raymond Williams, for example
• English Antarctic explorer who walked out of a tent into a blizzard in 1912
• English writer who won the 1996 Booker Prize with Last Orders
• The extreme south-western point of Jersey
• Massive herbivorous long-tailed bipedal dinosaur common in Jurassic and Cretaceous times
• 1993 film starring Madonna, Harvey Keitel and James Russo

Down Clues

• A device for determining the value of an unknown resistance by comparison with a known standard resistance
• The thin cartilaginous flap that covers the entrance to the larynx during swallowing, preventing food from entering the trachea
• Calf-length trousers or jeans
• The second largest city in Colombia
• English singer-songwriter whose most recent number one single was Eyes Closed in 2023
• See 1
• Body of water in Africa fed chiefly by the Shari River
• Much-criticised fashion look exemplified by a 1993 Calvin Klein advertising campaign featuring Kate Moss
• 1969 hit for soul singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
• Small South American rodent of which the guinea pig is a type
• American actress and singer born Frances Ethel Gumm in 1922
• Irish poet and dramatist awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1923
• King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy
• The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet
• Rufus Wainwright’s second album, featuring a cover version of his father Loudon Wainwright III’s song One Man Guy
• English actress, singer and entertainer whose biggest chart hit was the 1967 Top Ten single Just Loving You
• A portable brazier for heating and cooking food
• 2001 Japanese film that won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards
• The freshwater fish Salmo gairdneri
• English actress whose TV roles include Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Open All Hours
• 1990 Penny Marshall film, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, based on Oliver Sacks’s 1973 memoir of the same name
• Paul Simon song named after a brand of film that reached number two in the US Billboard chart in 1973
• The jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
• The youngest member of Bucks Fizz when they won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest
• 2nd century Christian bishop of Smyrna who died a martyr
• A group or series of four
• Oscar-winning musical based on a 1944 novella by Colette