Jumbo General June 22, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10 Across, 33 Across and 48 Across? Connection from #781 Alf Ramsey, Glenn Hoddle and Terry Venables played for Tottenham Hotspur

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Crossword GK Jumbo 782 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 22, 2024

Across Clues

• All-rounder took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut, with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies in 1995
• Actor invoved in a fatal shooting incident on the set of the film Rust
• Small town in the Roman province of Britannia that became Bath
• 1956 Elvis Presley hit adapted from the Civil War ballad Aura Lee
• Former captain of the England rugby union team and the British Lions who became a captain on the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport
• American author whose thrillers include The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears
• See 41
• French Prime Minister, 1906-09 and 1917-20, known as “Le Tigre”
• 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang
• American record producer who has won Grammy Awards for his work with Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton
• Irish dramatist whose plays include The Rivals and School for Scandal
• Actor who married Ally McBeal actress Calista Flockhart in 2010
• Familiar name for France’s representative at the Congress of Vienna in 1815
• Official body on matters pertaining to the French language, established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu
• Sound that has a relatively wide continuous range of frequencies of uniform intensity
• The process of combining objects or ideas into a complex whole
• American TV soap opera that followed the lives of the Capwell family from 1984 to 1993
• Senior RAF officer of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army
• Actor and director who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Good Will Hunting
• American actor and comedian whose films include Elf and Anchorman
• A corrosion-resistant alloy used in coins

Down Clues

• “Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha” in a novel by Miguel de Cervantes
• 1871 opera by Verdi commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt
• A type of pale beer with a strong flavour of hops, originally brewed in the Czech Republic
• The largest inland city in California
• Fortress in Paris stormed on 14 July 1789 during the French Revolution
• The supreme creator god in Norse mythology
• 1990 film based on Stephen King’s 1987 novel of the same name
• Pop group with which Boy George found fame
• The third book of the Old Testament
• A rich soft creamy French cheese named after a village in Normandy
• Academy Award-winning film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
• 2000 Amy Heckerling romantic comedy film starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear
• Otto ___, founder of the Vienna Philharmonic best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Sanskrit term for an accomplished and enlightened person
• Jordan’s only seaport
• Pop group led by brothers Ron and Russell Mael
• In ancient Greece, the chief city of Boeotia, destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC
• The father of Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament
• A naturally-occurring peptide in the salivary glands of medicinal leeches that has a blood anticoagulant property
• A run not scored off the bat in cricket
• Novel by George Eliot subtitled The Weaver of Raveloe
• Danish physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922
• Brian ___, the highest try scorer of all time in Irish Rugby
• Song by Amy Winehouse that was a top ten hit in both the UK and the US
• The ___, ballet with a score by Tchaikovsky given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1892
• American rapper born Stanley Kirk Burrell in 1962
• Prefecture-level city in Henan province that is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China
• American rock band featuring Randy California and his stepfather Ed Cassidy
• Town west of the River Jordan near the site of ancient Shechem
• The most populous city in southwest Colombia
• 1982 novel by Shirley Conran