Jumbo General May 04, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15 Across, 36 Across and 54 Across? Connection from #774 The Ipcress File, Out Of Africa and Goldfinger have scores by John Barry

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Crossword GK Jumbo 775 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 04, 2024

Across Clues

• Actor whose films include The Name of the Rose, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Heathers
• Country whose capital is Tirana
• The small northern sandpiper Calidris canutus
• Crater near Cumae portrayed as the entrance to the underworld in the Aeneid of Virgil
• Spain’s all-time top goalscorer
• Symbol consisting of a short line with dots above and below used to represent the mathematical operation of division
• Servilius ___, Roman tribune who struck the first blow in the assassination of Julius Caesar
• 1965 film starring Alain Delon, Ann-Margret and Jack Palance
• In ancient Greece, a festival at which competitors contended for prizes, such as the Olympic Games
• See 49
• American actor who played Juror #4 in Sidney Lumet’s film 12 Angry Men
• American golfer whose only major championship victory was in the 1977 USPGA Championship at Pebble Beach
• Vladimir ___, Russian-born conductor and pianist who became a citizen of Iceland in 1972
• The ___ Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual team race across Alaska
• City that hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Paolo ___, Italian painter of the Renaissance whose paintings include The Feast in the House of Levi
• Cheech and Chong’s first feature-length film, released in 1978
• Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Jamaican reggae band who had a Top 10 hit in 1978 with Now That We’ve Found Love
• Yellow-flowered shrub of the genera Cytisus and Sarothamnus
• ___ of the Dump, children’s novel by Clive King published in 1963
• Best Actress Oscar-winner for Monster’s Ball
• Heinrich ___, German poet and essayist whose chief poetic work is Das Buch der Lieder
• French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957
• The remains of a Neolithic burial cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire
• Former kingdom comprising most of modern Spain
• The Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland
• Island in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Saint-Denis
• Venezuelan terrorist arrested in Sudan in 1994 after years as one of the world’s most wanted fugitives

Down Clues

• 1976 Tom Stoppard play that is interrupted by the play New-Found-Land
• Andrew ___, cricketer who captained England to victory in the 2009 Ashes
• The third largest city in Spain
• A machine with a drum that rotates round a vertical spindle that is used for hauling in heavy ropes, etc
• The first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815
• See 10
• The title of the successors of Mohammed as rulers of the Islamic world, later assumed by the Sultans of Turkey
• American singer and songwriter who was Bobby Hatfield’s partner in The Righteous Brothers
• Song written by Mike d’Abo that became the theme song of the BBC series The Office
• Name of the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam
• Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician who was the last President of Czechoslovakia
• Swiss writer whose books include How Proust Can Change Your Life and Essays In Love
• The county town of Fingal in the Republic of Ireland
• 1963 hit single by The Crystals written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector
• 1938 satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh set in the world of foreign correspondence
• The sixth moon of the planet Jupiter, and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites
• River that forms the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire for most of its 75 mile length
• English folk-rock band who had hit singles with Gaudete and All Around My Hat
• The largest Arab country in the Middle East
• Latin phrase meaning ‘beyond one’s powers or authority’
• Plant similar to the daffodil, which grows from a bulb and has white or yellow flowers, often heavily scented
• Morocco’s largest city and chief port
• See 23
• Elvis Presley number one single issued as a double A-side with I Got Stung
• English rock band fronted by Ian Astbury
• Small smooth-haired breed of dog of African origin with an inability to bark
• In Gothic architecture, a tertiary rib connecting one rib to another