Jumbo General August 03, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15 Across, 30 Across and 50 Across? Connection from #787 London, Tokyo and Berlin were the venues for cancelled Summer Olympiads

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Crossword GK Jumbo 788 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 03, 2024

Across Clues

• Nickname of François Duvalier, repressive President of Haiti from 1957-1971
• A salad of shredded cabbage, mayonnaise, carrots, onions, etc
• Tom ___, American golfer who won the Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1996
• Welsh rock band whose hits include Maybe Tomorrow and Dakota
• A surrounding area or region
• Literary or archaic name for China
• Genus of plants commonly called coneflowers and black-eyed-susan
• An inspection, correction and verification of business accounts, conducted by an independent accountant
• The smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public
• English rock band whose hits included Down in the Tube Station at Midnight and That’s Entertainment
• Severe infection and inflammation of the intestines caused by bacteria, protozoa or parasitic worms
• Bully in Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
• Ballet with music by Maurice Ravel, who described it as a “symphonie choréographique”
• English punk rock band whose hits included London Calling and Should I Stay Or Should I Go
• Group of Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia
• Peter ___, Australian tennis player best known for his doubles partnership with Paul McNamee
• Song by The Beach Boys that features an Electro-Theremin, played by Paul Tanner
• The Old World game bird Scolopax rusticola
• English punk rock band whose members have included Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies
• A commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the US Navy
• William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudes
• A freshwater cyprinid fish of the genus Abramis
• 1974 UK and US number one single by Ray Stevens
• Country whose capital is Ankara
• Spanish name for the Running of the Bulls, as in Pamplona, for example
• English punk rock band whose members included Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious
• Stage name of New Orleans musician Mac Rebennack
• A loose wide-sleeved liturgical vestment worn over the cassock by clergymen, choristers and acolytes
• A tropical American click beetle of the genus Pyrophorus with luminescent thoracic organs

Down Clues

• Protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon
• BBC classical music quiz chaired by Joseph Cooper from 1966
• Character in the TV series Callan played by Russell Hunter
• Loch ___, the largest Scottish lake
• A red-skinned potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962
• The Mediterranean cruciferous plant Lobularia maritima
• English-born Australian singer and actress who co-starred with John Travolta in the film version of Grease
• London area, birthplace of singer Matt Monro
• A type of neutron star believed to have a very powerful magnetic field
• The capital of Zambia
• Caroline ___, English literary critic who was the first female professor of English Literature
• Technical name for the eardrum
• Horse that Bob Champion rode to victory in the 1981 Grand National
• A weaverbird of the genus Passer and related genera
• The Abbot of ___, Scottish equivalent of England’s Lord of Misrule
• J J ___, Finnish former Formula One driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, in 1995 and 2005
• Courtier sent by Claudius to invite Hamlet to participate in the duel with Laertes in Shakespeare’s play
• The small rodent Micromys minutus
• American film actor and entertainer born Joseph Yule, Jr. in 1920
• Deep-toned native Australian wind instrument popularised by Rolf Harris
• Tom ___, American golfer who won the Open Championship at Royal Troon in 1973
• Famous aria from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet sometimes referred to as “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”
• Robert ___, Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
• In Greek mythology, a son of King Priam of Troy who was killed by Achilles
• Shakespeare play subtitled the Moor of Venice
• George ___, Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher whose works include the opera Oedipe
• Technical name for a cough