Jumbo General September 07, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11 Across, 31 Across and 50 Across? Connection from #792 Avalanche, Grapeshot and Diadem were codenames for WWII allied operations in Italy

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Crossword GK Jumbo 793 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 07, 2024

Across Clues

• Playwright whose works include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
• Actress who played Debs in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly
• The capital of Sardinia
• A column of rising air used by gliders to gain height
• TV sitcom of the 1980s set in the fictional Maplins holiday camp
• The final opera by Richard Strauss
• Goalkeeper who played 172 games for Manchester City between 1997 and 2007
• Song that gave Carole King a top 10 hit in the UK in 1962
• English musician whose top ten singles include Budapest, Paradise and Shotgun
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• City on the French Riviera founded by Phocaeans from Marseille in about the 3rd century BC
• A member of a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534
• New York-born conductor and composer whose film scores include The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• Nickname of the character Willard Barnes in the TV series Dallas
• A pictorial representation of a facility on a computer system
• Augustus ___, the first person to find a Golden Ticket in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• American tennis player who won both the Wimbledon and the Australian men’s singles titles in 1951
• 1993 American film adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated John Guare play of the same name starring Stockard Channing
• 1937 film directed by Robert J Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, based on a story from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book
• 1953 science fiction novel by John Wyndham
• Book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper of a specified size to form eight leaves
• The innermost layers of an organ or part, especially of a blood vessel
• The guitarist in Queen
• 1983 horror film starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, based on a novel by Whitley Strieber
• Province of Canada whose capital is Fredericton

Down Clues

• US sitcom whose guest stars have included Hillary Clinton, Adam Levine and Shania Twain
• King of Macedonia who was the father of Alexander the Great
• 1844 opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on a play by Victor Hugo
• With Atropos and Lachesis, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology
• Character created by David McKee for several children’s books and an animated TV series on the BBC
• American actress whose films include Goodbye, Columbus and Love Story
• Character in Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind with whom Scarlett O’Hara is obsessed
• Stage name of Derek William Dick, the former lead singer of the band Marillion
• Goran ___, footballer who in 2021 became the first Macedonian to score 100 goals in one of the top five European football leagues
• Best Picture winner at the 2009 Oscars, directed by Kathryn Bigelow
• Protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin
• 1973 play by Peter Shaffer about a young man who has a pathological fascination with horses
• City in Afghanistan on the Hari Rud River
• Another name for a vizier
• The largest seaside resort in Wales
• 1984 album by David Bowie
• Either of the two occasions, six months apart, when day and night are of equal length
• 2015–16 English Premier League champions
• 1993 film starring John Candy loosely based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team
• Range of over-the-counter medications originally manufactured by a family-owned company in Greensboro, North Carolina, from the late 19th century
• The state capital of Delaware
• Ric ___, bass guitarist in the bands Family, Blind Faith, Ginger Baker’s Air Force and Traffic
• The part of a cathedral or church east of the choir, in which the main altar is situated
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• The third solo album by Van Morrison, released in 1970
• Dame Kiri ___, New Zealand soprano who sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
• The hard white substance that covers the crown of each tooth
• Sheikh ___, Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 1962 to 1986
• ITV comedy series that starred Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley
• The most watched TV channel in Italy
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