Jumbo General April 13, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10 Across, 27 Across and 49 Across? Connection from #771 The Pretenders, Ghosts and Brand are plays by Henrik Ibsen

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Crossword GK Jumbo 772 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 13, 2024

Across Clues

• British author best known for her children’s series about Little Grey Rabbit
• Middle name of Cassius Clay Jr before he changed it to Muhammad Ali
• 1975 British film starring David Niven as ‘Major’ Walter Bradbury
• American actress whose films included Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story
• Sean ___, Irish dramatist whose works include Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars
• First baseman for the New York Yankees, nicknamed “The Iron Horse”
• R H ___, English economic historian whose works include the 1926 volume Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
• Chinese-born actor and martial artist whose films include Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon
• Town in Portugal famous for the religious visions that reportedly took place there in 1917
• Creature also known as a spiny anteater
• 1996 single by Toni Braxton that reached number one in five countries
• Runner voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2002
• Norfolk town in the valley of the River Waveney close to the border with Suffolk
• 1981 hit single and album by Altered Images
• Drink that Vice Admiral Edward Vernon introduced into the Royal Navy in 1740
• Score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for a 1934 film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer
• The capital of Cameroon
• See 26
• In Greek mythology, a beautiful girl loved by Eros
• 1976 top ten hit by Stevie Wonder, from the Songs in the Key of Life album
• Book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper to form eight leaves
• Variety of quartz, used as a gemstone, also called smoky quartz
• 8th century Bishop of London who was preceded by Eadberht and succeeded by Ceonwalh
• The author of Wuthering Heights
• The three days preceding Ash Wednesday, when confessions were made in preparation for Lent
• An instrument that indicates height above sea level
• 1960 Ronald Neame film starring Alec Guinness and John Mills

Down Clues

• Nihilistic early 20th century artistic movement named from a children’s word for ‘hobbyhorse’
• Charge card company formed in 1950 by Frank X McNamara, Ralph Schneider and Matty Simmons
• See 47
• A short stout stick used as a weapon
• 1974 Michael Apted film that was the sequel to the 1973 film That’ll Be the Day
• John ___, civil engineer who designed three London bridges and the London and East India docks
• Scottish duo whose 70s hits included Heart on My Sleeve and I Wanna Stay with You
• Tragedy by Federico García Lorca first performed in 1933
• Ornamental shrub also called butterfly bush
• The swiftest mammal
• Ben Elton’s first novel, published in 1989
• Luigi ___, Italian composer buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery close to his friend Chopin
• Song by Radiohead that was the third UK single to be released from their album The Bends
• Island state in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Port Louis
• Classic early Baroque oratorio composed by Giacomo Carissimi in the mid-17th century
• A loose fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds, lizards, etc.
• Another name for mescal
• The former name (until 1972) of Sri Lanka
• Part of the Pacific Ocean in Indonesia between Celebes and the Lesser Sunda Islands
• Rodgers and Hammerstein musical featuring the songs Some Enchanted Evening and Happy Talk
• Boston-based R&B group whose members included Bobby Brown
• Beatles song that won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1966
• Someone who attends or assists a priest
• Chinese-style American dish whose name means “odds and ends”
• The virginal Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon
• The finished nonfraying edge of a length of woven fabric
• Any congenital growth or pigmented blemish on the skin
• English ballerina born Margaret Hookham in 1919
• 1969 single by The Kinks covered 20 years later by Kirsty MacColl