Jumbo General August 31, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13 Across, 30 Across and 46 Across? Connection from #791 Barbara Hutton, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon were married to Cary Grant

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Crossword GK Jumbo 792 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 31, 2024

Across Clues

• Actress who played Sabrina Duncan in the TV series Charlie’s Angels
• A fall of large masses of snow and ice down a mountain
• Department of southwestern France whose cities include Lourdes
• Very large oval Indian diamond that has been part of the British crown jewels since 1849
• Another name for the papaya
• 1985 comedy-Western starring Tom Berenger as the cowboy Rex O’Herlihan
• Redness of the skin caused by irritation or injury to the tissue
• German composer whose works include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome
• American golfer whose two majors were the 1988 and 1989 US Opens
• Island in the Caribbean whose capital is Bridgetown
• Ammunition for cannons consisting of a canvas tube containing a cluster of small iron balls that scatter after firing
• The aromatic Indian plant Nardostachys jatamans, which has rose-purple flowers
• European liliaceous plant with clusters of white or yellow flowers
• The first James Bond film not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel
• BBC TV show broadcast from 1975 to 1979 whose regular performers included the dancers New Edition
• Breakfast cereal manufactured by the Kellogg Company since 1956
• 1981 adventure film starring Harry Hamlin as Perseus
• A royal crown, especially a light jewelled circlet
• Ralph ___, British illustrator best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S Thompson
• American pop band who had hits with The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) and Anything Goes in 1967
• The capital and largest town of the Faeroe Islands
• Character in EastEnders played by Elizabeth Kelly between 1993 and 2000

Down Clues

• A sea bird of the family Stercorariidae
• A large, four-legged walking robot introduced in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back
• A person who divines, especially by crystal gazing
• A person who values property for taxation
• A method of encoding a bitmap image such that a person who has partially received it sees a degraded copy of the entire image
• Ancient port in Israel founded by Herod the Great that was the capital of Roman Palestine
• See 18
• Canadian rock group whose biggest hit was You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
• Any of the small drupes that make up the fruit of the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
• Roman emperor born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
• 1979 UK and US top ten hit single for Randy VanWarmer
• Georges ___, French composer whose works include film music for Passport to Pimlico and The Lavender Hill Mob
• The teenage high school student whose alter ego is Spider-Man
• The first black Archbishop of Cape Town
• Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy, whose seven extant plays include the Oresteia trilogy
• Collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce first published in 1914
• The capital of Guam
• Musteline mammal also called a honey badger
• German city that is the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr
• Elizabeth ___, English author whose novels include Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters
• The oldest of Alexandre Dumas’s Three Musketeers
• Of, relating to, or resembling a hawk
• The third largest of the Balearic Islands
• French city on the Deûle River, near France’s border with Belgium
• 2003 album by the White Stripes whose opening track is Seven Nation Army
• Home of Rugby Union’s Scarlets
• Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness and welfare that can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye
• 1974 single referencing The Wizard of Oz that was America’s fourth top-ten hit in the US
• The yellow-and-black Eurasian finch Carduelis spinus
• See 20
• A bar or shaft on which a wheel revolves
• Canadian rock band comprising Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart