Jumbo General July 27, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 40 and 57 Across? Connection from #786 Steve Coogan, Pierce Brosnan and David Niven played Phileas Fogg

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Crossword GK Jumbo 787 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 27, 2024

Across Clues

• Horse that won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977
• The capital of Nova Scotia
• Mike Leigh play that opened at the Hampstead Theatre in April 1977
• The capital of the state of Bavaria, on the Isar River
• The chief port of Spain
• The capital of the United Kingdom
• 1923 novel by D H Lawrence set in Australia
• A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
• Brightest star in the constellation Cygnus
• American medical sitcom that ran from 2001 to 2010
• A young unfledged bird, especially a pigeon
• John Denver’s second US number one single
• Polar explorer associated with the ship Endurance
• The capital of France
• A cultivated variety of cabbage also called turnip cabbage
• The capital of China
• Russian city that is capital of the Chechen Republic
• Port in W France at the head of the Loire estuary associated with a 1598 Edict
• City in San Diego County, California, nicknamed “The Big Box”
• The practice of joining a political party with the intention of changing its principles and policies
• The capital of Japan
• 1967 Top Ten hit single for Manfred Mann
• The second largest city in the United States
• The capital of Ghana
• A port and resort in Emilia-Romagna on Italy’s Adriatic coast
• See 9
• The capital of Mali
• A mixed drink that doesn’t contain alcohol
• The outer and thinner of the two bones between the knee and ankle of the leg
• 1965 comedy Western starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin
• The capital of Germany
• A 1993 collection of short stories by William Sleator
• The anhydrous commercial form of sodium carbonate
• 1945 short story by J D Salinger whose eponymous heroine lives in the Bronx

Down Clues

• Genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae to which the leaf vegetable rocket belongs
• Another name for a pluviometer
• The second most populous state in India after Uttar Pradesh
• Play by Harold Brighouse set in Salford in 1880
• Small constellation containing the star Vega
• Girolamo ___, Italian Baroque composer whose works include the liturgical organ music collection Fiori musicali
• A cattle-rearing people of southern Africa, living chiefly in South Africa
• King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy
• Eric ___, Monty Python member who co-wrote and sang the theme tune to the TV series One Foot in the Grave
• Woody Allen film for which Diane Keaton won a Best Actress Oscar
• BBC Radio 4 programme presented by Ned Sherrin from 1998 to 2006
• ___ Dimittis, the Latin name for the Canticle of Simeon
• Common name for a deep-sea echinoderm of the genus Scotoplanes
• A Brazilian dance similar to the samba
• Insect whose larva is often called a “doodlebug” in North America
• Nicolas ___, President of France from 2007 to 2012
• The principal port city of Syria
• Caravaggio painting in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
• Coastal town in Norfolk at the mouth of the River Yare
• Horse that won the 2000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse Stakes and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1989
• Large town in Berkshire immortalised by John Betjeman in a 1937 poem
• Actor who created the role of Juan Perón in the musical Evita opposite Elaine Paige
• 1952 play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials
• English actress whose TV shows included In Loving Memory, Hallelujah! and Last of the Summer Wine
• Rugby union players that traditionally wear 9 and 10
• A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru
• Horse that won the Derby, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 1995
• Part of the body whose technical name is the pollex
• The innermost of Jupiter’s known moons
• In Greek mythology, a Thessalian king punished by Zeus for his love of Hera by being bound to a perpetually-revolving wheel
• See 11
• Mountainous Italian island that was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first place of exile