Jumbo General July 06, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 30 Across and 54 Across? Connection from #783 Stephen Merchant, Daniel Kitson and Konnie Huq were contestants on Blockbusters

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Crossword GK Jumbo 784 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 06, 2024

Across Clues

• The fibre of the abaca plant
• Phil Collins’s second US No. 1 single, following Against All Odds
• Gadoid food fish of the genus Merluccius
• Girl group whose hits include Never Ever and Pure Shores
• Whiskey distilled from a mash of corn, malt and rye, aged in charred oak barrels
• 1969 road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern
• Area of Cardiff that is the birthplace of Shirley Bassey
• General Motors’ largest European brand
• Home in Grasmere to William and Dorothy Wordsworth
• German high-performance car manufacturer based in Stuttgart
• Province of Canada whose capital is Winnipeg
• The state capital of Nebraska
• Italian football manager who has won the Champions League a record five times as a coach, plus two more as a player
• 1974 studio album by David Bowie
• English actor who had success as a singer with his Soldier Soldier co-star Robson Green
• Covering for the head and face, worn by Muslim women
• The lead singer of Simple Minds
• Technology entrepreneur and engineer who is lead designer of SpaceX and product architect of Tesla, Inc
• La Liga football club based in Pamplona
• Character in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick who is hunting for the whale to get revenge
• German kitchen appliance company that introduced the first microwave oven in 1957
• A housing for a ship’s compass
• A small celestial body orbiting the sun that hasn’t entered the earth’s atmosphere
• Figure in the legend of King Arthur depicted as being responsible for his downfall
• See 31
• City on the French Riviera founded by Phocaeans in about the 3rd century BC
• Storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights
• British singer who won the third series of The X Factor in 2006

Down Clues

• 1971 Woody Allen comedy, set in the fictional republic of San Marcos
• 1990 film based on Stephen King’s 1987 novel of the same name
• South Korean film that won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Bong Joon-ho
• Actor who played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind
• The capital and largest city of Samoa
• Scottish snooker player who won the first of his four world titles in 1998
• Highly contagious viral disease whose technical name is rubeola
• American singer-songwriter and rapper who came to fame in the group New Edition
• See 43
• Dutch reality TV franchise created by Endemol in 1999
• The pipe on a set of bagpipes on which the melody is played
• BBC sitcom about two Glaswegian pensioners created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill
• Narcotic drug extracted from the unripe seed capsules of a poppy
• Maryland-bred horse that won the 1984 Derby
• First name of the child witch in the 1960s US sitcom Bewitched
• Tom Rush song that gave the Walker Brothers and Midge Ure top ten hits in the UK
• Celtic language recognised by the UK government under Part II of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 2002
• Arts-based BBC documentary series that ran from 1967 to 2003
• Boy band comprising Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and, until 2015, Zayn Malik
• A subsidiary or intermediate theorem in an argument or proof
• Drugs, such as propranolol, that inhibits the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
• Puerto Rican actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for Cyrano de Bergerac
• Californian pop duo whose biggest hit was Surf City
• Oscar-winning 1999 film starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening
• English actor, comedian and presenter whose TV series include Not Going Out and Would I Lie to You?
• The capital of Venezuela
• Food item whose name is derived from the French for ‘twice-cooked’
• Purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex whose children’s TV show debuted in the US in 1992
• Complex of enzymes used in cheese production
• Opera by Alban Berg, first performed posthumously in 1937