Jumbo General April 20, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 31 Across and 49 Across? Connection from #772 Alison Uttley, Paula Radcliffe and Emily Brontë have the middle name Jane

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Crossword GK Jumbo 773 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 20, 2024

Across Clues

• Song sung by fans of West Ham United
• A plant of the genus Erodium, especially Erodium cicutarium
• City in Steuben County, New York, to which the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works moved in 1868 and adopted its name
• The world’s largest and most populous continent
• Area close to the centre of Galway city where the Corrib River meets Galway Bay
• Mansion near St James’s Palace that was the scene of an agreement in 1979 granting Rhodesia independence from the UK
• The former name of Thailand
• The Welsh language
• Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Antananarivo
• Baron ___, Cinderella’s father in the pantomime
• A member of a South American Indian people of Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia
• The capital of Nepal
• Loss of hair from the head or body
• Snooker ball worth three points
• 1966 album by The Beatles whose cover was created by the German bassist Klaus Voormann
• Large town that is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon
• Country known as Deutschland in its own language
• The East Indian evergreen tree Myristica fragrans, cultivated for its seed, which is used as a spice
• 1942 Michael Curtiz film that won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture
• The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
• In Greek mythology, a nymph spurned by Narcissus who pined away until only her voice remained
• 1984 Phil Collins song that reached number one when covered by Mariah Carey and Westlife in 2000
• Another name for Arthropodium cirratum, a herbaceous perennial plant endemic to New Zealand
• A salmon up to two years of age
• Branch of mathematics in which alphabetic symbols represent unknown numbers
• Torture device called an Eiserne Jungfrau in German
• 1954 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco that won an Oscar for Best Song

Down Clues

• French name for the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo featuring the hunchback bell-ringer Quasimodo
• The former name (until 1935) of Iran
• London borough whose wards include Catford, Forest Hill and New Cross
• Tropical American arboreal fruit-eating bird of the family Ramphastidae
• Art term describing how much painting can be done in a single day, from an Italian word which means “a day’s work”
• Caribbean fruit that is a cross between a tangerine, grapefruit and orange
• Country whose capital is Sofia
• Tourist attraction in Ceredigion, Wales, also known as Pontarfynach
• American heavy metal band who collaborated with Lou Reed on the 2011 album Lulu
• Plucked musical instrument, usually with a triangular body and three strings, used chiefly for Russian folk music
• See 46
• William Makepeace ___, English novelist best known for Vanity Fair
• Coastal area of Massachusetts that is co-extensive with Barnstable County
• English poet and hymn writer whose works include Just As I Am
• Group of volcanic islands whose capital is Funchal
• Republic in Central America whose currency unit is the quetzal
• An atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons
• Sir John ___, British composer whose works include Song for Athene, performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997
• The process or profession of writing or compiling dictionaries
• A light two-wheeled one-horse carriage without a hood
• Scottish economist and philosopher whose book The Wealth of Nations advocated free trade and private enterprise
• King who succeeded his brother Ethelbert as King of Wessex and Kent in 865
• Otto von ___, statesman nicknamed ‘The Iron Chancellor’
• The tropical American evergreen tree Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds
• German composer best known for his cantata Carmina Burana
• Celia __, British actress who played Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques in Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
• Trinidadian cricketer who played 40 Test matches for the West Indies between 2004 and 2010
• 2011 Channel 4 sitcom set at the fictional Kirke University
• Raven in Charles Dickens’ novel Barnaby Rudge