Jumbo General April 27, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8 Across, 22 Across and 43 Across? Connection from #773 Corning, Green and Parr were noms de plume of Erle Stanley Gardner

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Crossword GK Jumbo 774 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 27, 2024

Across Clues

• The first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962
• The largest country in the world
• A half-tamed albino variety of the polecat, used to unearth rabbits
• London tourist attraction with Nelson’s Column at its centre
• The European songbird Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
• The hymn of the Virgin Mary, used as a canticle
• American poet whose most famous work is Gunslinger
• Unit of a tennis match, in which one player must win at least six games
• Country whose capital is Baku
• Memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume of Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke
• A type of computer program that converts a program into machine code
• Mediterranean island that was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first place of exile
• In the Old Testament, the highest priest at Shiloh and teacher of Samuel
• In Egyptian mythology, a moon deity, scribe of the gods and protector of learning and the arts
• Abbreviation for a British computer company that operated from 1968 to 2002, when it was renamed Fujitsu Services Limited
• Italian river that rises in the Apennines and flows through Florence to the Ligurian Sea
• Another name for the king cobra
• Character in the TV series Lost played by Dominic Monaghan
• The first five books of the Old Testament regarded as a unity
• Japanese ornamental form of the common carp
• Liam ___, Ballymena-born actor whose films include the action thriller series Taken
• The third film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery
• Poem by William Blake, first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794
• Madagascan prosimian primate with a foxy face and a long banded tail
• Luis ___, Spanish film director who collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou and L’Age d’or
• Protozoan of the phylum Rhizopoda able to change shape because of the movements of cell processes
• Small marsupial of the genus Bettongia

Down Clues

• Another name for the plant Jacobaea maritima, also known as dusty miller
• The brightest star in the constellation Boötes
• See 40
• Highest peak of the Kunlun mountain range in China
• City in S Peru, at an altitude of 2250m, founded in 1540 on the site of an Inca city
• Alberto ___, Italian racing driver who was Formula 1 World Champion in 1952 and 1953
• The world’s largest media conglomerate from 1990 to 2018
• The fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry series
• English record producer, musician and music journalist who had a 1975 hit with Eighteen With a Bullet
• See 36
• 1981 film starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan
• 1977 film based on Lillian Hellman’s book Pentimento
• Largest of the Balearic Islands
• The bird Eudyptula minor, found on the Australian coast
• Computer problem arising from the change in date at the start of the 21st century
• The capital of Jordan
• American tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1949
• City and port of entry in NE Mexico, in Tamaulipas state on the Rio Grande
• In ancient Greece or Rome, an open-air course for horse and chariot races
• A decrease in hydrogen-ion concentration of the blood or a rise in pH
• Italian composer regarded as the founder of modern opera
• In the Old Testament, the last of the house of “28” and the only priest to escape from Saul’s massacre
• 1990 Mike Figgis film starring Richard Gere and Andy García
• Frederick ___, statesman who was the second President of Zambia, 1991 to 2002
• The state capital of Colorado