Jumbo General May 11, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 35 Across and 52 Across? Connection from #775 David Villa, Penélope Cruz and Carlos The Jackal share the maternal family name Sánchez

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Crossword GK Jumbo 776 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 11, 2024

Across Clues

• Region of north-east Italy which contains the cities Padua, Treviso and Vicenza
• 1971 single and album by John Lennon
• Song with which Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest
• Nursery rhyme character who could eat no fat
• ___ Bennett, Welsh actor best known for playing the title role in the sitcom Shelley
• Type of West Indian popular music with a strongly-accented upbeat
• City in the Sudan that was the scene of an 1898 victory for Lord Kitchener’s forces
• The day before Good Friday
• Common name for the cactus Opuntia humifusa
• A widely used type of local area network
• Roman statesman and writer noted for his relentless opposition to Carthage
• Tailless macaque monkey associated with the Rock of Gibraltar
• An ornamental centrepiece for a table
• A wild goat with large backward-curving horns
• 1972 single by The Osmonds that reached number 2 in the UK
• Hoax in which bone fragments found in a gravel pit in East Sussex were presented as the fossilised remains of an early human
• English rock supergroup formed in 1981 whose original lineup was John Wetton, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes and Steve Howe
• A deep purplish red that is the complementary colour of green
• Caribbean island whose capital is Fort-de-France
• The West Indian shrub Indigofera suffruticosa, which is a source of indigo
• Measure of computer storage capacity equal to a thousand gigabytes
• The insect Lymantria dispar dispar
• The small ferocious carnivorous marsupial Sarcophilus harrisi
• Reginald Perrin’s middle name in the sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter
• The mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament
• Light snacks or appetisers, usually eaten with drinks in Spanish bars
• A close-fitting woollen hood that covers the ears and neck
• Song performed by Secret Garden that won the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest for Norway
• The ___, Raymond Briggs book first published in 1978
• The male reproductive organ of a flower

Down Clues

• The 23rd president of the United States
• Melina ___ , Greek actress and singer who became the country’s first female Minister for Culture in 1981
• Technical name for the back
• Serie A football team nicknamed La Viola
• 1981 Milos Forman film based on a novel by E L Doctorow
• An outline drawing named after a French politician
• A collective of musicians who attempted to engage young people with politics in the period leading up to the 1987 general election
• Shakespeare comedy subtitled What You Will
• 1980 Woody Allen film shot in black and white
• City in Belgium that was the centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade
• The largest city in Cameroon
• County cricket club whose one-day side is called Steelbacks
• A dry red wine produced in Tuscany
• A short story by Roald Dahl, originally published in The New Yorker, included in his 1960 collection Kiss Kiss
• The longest river in Great Britain
• Informal term for the style of play of the England cricket team under Brendon McCullum
• 1995 novel by Robert Harris about a young mathematician stationed in Bletchley Park
• Lead singer of The Who
• The world’s first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. founded in 1979
• Welsh actor and director, born Alfred Reginald Jones, who won a Best Actor Oscar for The Lost Weekend
• The capital of Hungary
• The second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar
• US state whose capital is Montgomery
• Legendary island on which King Arthur’s sword Excalibur was forged
• Unit of angular measure equal to one sixtieth of a degree
• Insect that travels in vast swarms, stripping large areas of vegetation