Jumbo General May 18, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 21 Across, 39 Across and 53 Across? Connection from #776 Waterloo, magenta and balaclava are named after battles

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Crossword GK Jumbo 777 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 18, 2024

Across Clues

• German painter and printmaker regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance
• Single by The Cure that was a hit in 1985 and, in a remixed version, in 1990
• England defender who joined Manchester City from Everton in 2016
• Herbaceous plant of the genus Doronicum with large yellow flowers
• Astronomical phenomenon attributable to the Doppler effect that occurs when a light source moves away from an observer
• Former Zimbabwe cricketer who in 1999 became England’s first foreign coach
• Boxer born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr in 1942
• American novelist whose works include Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy’s Complaint
• Florida city famous for its International Speedway
• ITV talk show whose presenters include Christine Lampard and Dame Kelly Holmes
• Nigerian city that is capital of Oyo state
• A bioengineered or biorobotic being created by the Tyrell Corporation in the film Blade Runner
• 1979 Australian film starring Mel Gibson
• Guitarist and founding member of The Sex Pistols
• US state whose capital is Harrisburg
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for In the Heat of the Night
• Oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Edward Elgar first performed in 1903
• The world’s largest single piece of limestone, in southern Australia
• Radioactive element whose atomic number is 89
• Former middle-distance runner who was Conservative MP for Falmouth and Camborne from 1992 to 1997
• An archaic name for the gannet
• Corrosion-resistant metallic element used in X-ray windows
• American talent manager whose productions include the musical Oh! Calcutta! on Broadway and the film Alice’s Restaurant

Down Clues

• US vice president from 1993 to 2001
• Part of an engine that translates reciprocating linear piston motion into rotation
• Aristocratic family centered around Piacenza in Northern Italy that claims descendancy from the Clan Douglas
• London airport that is the largest base for Ryanair
• Mexican tortilla containing cheese and other ingredients, folded in half to form a half-moon shape
• Cocktail that originated in Harry’s Bar in Venice
• Traditional name of Beta Cancri, the brightest star in the constellation Cancer
• 1992 film starring Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and Marcello Mastroianni
• Word for a fine or penalty derived from French
• 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers
• 1978 Michael Crichton film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Robin Cook
• The capital of Mongolia
• 1884 opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet based on a novel by the Abbé Prévost
• Board game named from the Greek for ‘leap’
• King who is father to Perdita in Shakespeare’s play The Winter’s Tale
• Mineral that is the chief source of iron
• Crustaceans of the infraorder Caridea within the order Decapoda
• African country whose capital is Bujumbura
• Former Leeds United and Aston Villa manager whose 722 appearances for Arsenal are a club record
• The narrow strip along which fencing bouts take place
• Swedish city that hosted the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest
• English agriculturalist who invented the seed drill
• 70s sitcom that featuring the real-life married couple of Pauline Collins and John Alderton as Clara and Charles Danby
• 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement
• Young ward of Chancery in Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House who falls in love with Richard Carstone
• 2006 top 10 hit for The Zutons covered by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse in 2007
• Worldwide distributed Internet discussion system founded in 1979 by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis
• Another name for the psalterium, the third compartment of the stomach of ruminants
• A mischievous or evil spirit also called Robin Goodfellow
• Small insectivorous Madagascan mammal
• Adjective relating to bears