Jumbo General August 17, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 28 and 34 Across? Connection from #789 Dirk Bogarde, Alexei Sayle and Elisabeth Frink attended Chelsea School of Art

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Crossword GK Jumbo 790 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 17, 2024

Across Clues

• The first President of the Palestinian National Authority
• 1964 musical based on Thornton Wilder’s 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers
• English actress who made her Broadway debut in 1929 in the American première of Noël Coward’s Bitter Sweet
• Sir Michael ___, English composer whose works include the operas The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam and The Knot Garden
• The Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom, associated with Mercury
• 1964 single by The Temptations written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
• Mark ___, midfielder who played over 100 games for both Parma and Palermo and won 84 caps for Australia
• Tielman ___, Antwerp-based 16th-century Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and music publisher
• Welsh buccaneer after whom a brand of rum is named
• Irish National Hunt racehorse trainer who was Champion Jockey in 1977–78 and 1979–80
• A weakly acidic solution used in photographic processing to halt the action of a developer
• The 16th president of the United States of America
• First name of the character played by Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers
• Iridaceous plant also called a sword lily
• Country whose capital is Ottawa
• English actor, film director and composer who won a Best Music Oscar for the 1952 film Limelight
• Small village in Hampshire that is home to the National Motor Museum
• Small rodent of the genus Dipodomys native to North America
• Shakespeare comedy set in the Forest of Arden
• Body part for which hallux is the technical term
• Maiden name of the Princess of Wales
• In World War II, fast German vessels carrying guns and torpedoes
• Surname shared by The Bee Gees
• Balkan region in which Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night is set
• British rower who won Olympic gold medals with Sir Steve Redgrave in 1984 and 1988
• Surname of the horse trader, violinist, businessman, writer and broadcaster known as the “King of the Gypsies”
• American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Breeders’ Cup Classic in 1996

Down Clues

• American actor whose films include Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs and The Piano
• Chelsea’s all-time leading goalscorer, with 211 goals in all competitions
• 1977 film about a killer whale starring Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling
• Plant also known as sea lavender
• Oscar-nominated 1993 film written and directed by Jane Campion
• Murder mystery board game first manufactured by Waddingtons in 1949
• Maria ___, Italian educational reformer who evolved a method of teaching children characterised by an emphasis on independence
• English actress who became Baroness Olivier
• 1970 Western inspired by the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory
• French for ‘brother’
• Beta blocker used to treat high blood pressure and in long term management of angina that came into medical use in 1977
• A tree of the genus Betula
• Waterway built by Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps
• US state whose capital is Montgomery
• England bowler who retired from international cricket last month with a record 704 Test wickets
• System of writing for the blind consisting of raised dots
• See 8
• In Greek mythology, the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra
• Small insectivorous terrestrial lizard whose digits have adhesive pads, which enable it to climb on smooth surfaces
• Controversial actor born Carlos Irwin Estevez
• 1946 King Vidor Western starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck and Joseph Cotten
• Oliver ___, self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits
• Single by Desmond Dekker & The Aces that was the first reggae number one in the UK
• Colour of the snooker ball worth four points
• See 24
• Maiden name of Beyoncé
• Any of various palaces or fortresses built by the Moors in Spain
• Port and resort in Andalusia after which a sweet fortified dessert wine is named
• Twyla ___, American dancer and choreographer who collaborated with film director Milos Forman on Hair, Ragtime and Amadeus
• See 10
• North Yorkshire village that gives its name to the largest power station in Britain