Jumbo General July 13, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17 Across, 48 Across and 57 Across? Connection from #784 Bourbon, Lincoln and Nice are biscuits

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Crossword GK Jumbo 785 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 13, 2024

Across Clues

• Singer in All Saints who was a contestant on Celebrity Race Across the World
• Eric Carmen song from the film Dirty Dancing that was a top ten hit in the US
• Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
• 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Raj Quartet
• Detective created by G K Chesterton
• Any of various papilionaceous plants of the genus Phaseolus
• Town in Calabria, Italy that is the traditional site of a sea monster in Greek mythology
• Swiss conductor who was the principal conductor of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
• English singer-songwriter who had top ten hits with Misfit and Under the Thumb as a teenager
• TV series created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on her one-woman show first performed in 2013
• Felt hat mainly worn by cowboys
• Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Dufftown, Scotland owned by William Grant & Sons
• 1938 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
• African country whose capital is Nairobi
• ITV crime drama series starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman
• Cheshire town with a major railway junction
• A richly-seasoned French stew of meat or poultry and vegetables
• See 20
• The daughter of Icarius in Greek mythology
• American actor best known for playing the title role in the detective series Cannon
• An imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
• Founder member of the Hollies who was part of a supergroup with David Crosby and Stephen Stills
• See 43
• ___ de Chile, Santiago-based club that has won 18 Primera División titles in Chile
• BBC sitcom created by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders
• 1980 album by Genesis
• French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973
• English punk band who had hits with Swords of a Thousand Men and Wünderbar

Down Clues

• Belgian surrealist artist whose works include The Treachery of Images
• A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus cultivated for its edible root
• Italian painter of the Venetian school whose original name was Jacopo Robusti
• Beatles album with an iconic cover featuring a zebra crossing
• A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra
• Songbird also called a butcherbird
• In formal correspondence, of the present month
• Village site of The Prancing Pony inn in the works of J R R Tolkien
• Son of William the Conqueror, crowned king of England in the absence of his elder brother, Robert in 1100
• American lawyer, Union general and governor of New Mexico Territory best known for his historical adventure story Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
• In North America, a sunken enclosure giving access to a basement
• The Greek goddess of the moon, whose Roman counterpart is Luna
• American actor and comedian best known for playing Michael Scott in the NBC version of The Office
• Collapsed Lung hit single used as the theme music for the Radio 4 series Mark Steel’s in Town
• A partial or full set of artificial teeth
• A yellow fuming corrosive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid that dissolves metals, including gold
• A playing card or dice with two pips or spots
• Dance music producer whose single Killer, introducing Seal as a vocalist, topped the charts in 1990
• 1960s British rock supergroup comprising bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker
• American singer and songwriter nicknamed “The Queen of Rockabilly”
• Brand of cigarettes launched by W D & H O Wills in 1959 and withdrawn in the early 1960s
• American actress whose roles include Trudy Campbell in Mad Men
• The lead singer of the Troggs
• Russian city, founded as a fortress in 1777, known as Voroshilovsk from 1940 to 1944
• A flightless marine bird of the order Sphenisciformes of cool southern regions
• A member of the Plantagenet royal line descended from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou
• Greek island that is the largest of the Dodecanese
• Ancient city on the coast of Asia Minor whose modern name is Izmir
• Rare soft metallic element whose atomic number is 49
• Mediterranean republic whose capital is Valletta
• US state settled by Mormons in 1847