Jumbo General September 14, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8 Across, 14 Across and 58 Across? Connection from #793 Arthur Miller, Carl Davis and Brian May married actresses

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Crossword GK Jumbo 794 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 14, 2024

Across Clues

• English poet, painter, and printmaker whose works include Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• Journey of the type that brings the characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales together
• Oratorio by William Walton first performed in 1931
• Caretaker of Hogwarts in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter stories
• The ancient Roman name for the Isle of Wight
• Unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound
• Opera by Giuseppe Verdi originally titled Violetta, after the main character
• 1956 film for which Yul Brynner won a Best Actor Oscar
• What the D of CND stands for
• A Tyrolean peasant dress with a full gathered skirt and fitted bodice
• The capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg
• The capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia
• The capital of Gabon
• Suburban area in Surrey that forms a borough with Epsom
• Nickname of French fashion designer Gabrielle Chanel
• Indonesian island whose capital is Denpasar
• See 14
• Unfinished opera by Alexander Borodin
• American multinational computer company founded by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories (SDL)
• An inlet between North Mainland and Northmavine on Shetland
• Shakespeare tragedy set in Denmark
• English rock band founded by singer, guitarist and principal songwriter Bill Nelson in 1972
• Singer whose 60s hits included Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and Sealed with a Kiss
• A syringe or needle for injecting beneath the skin
• David ___, author of the plays Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow
• Printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface which transfers it to the paper
• Wilfred ___, Nigerian midfielder who joined Leicester City from Genk in 2017
• David Lean film that won seven Oscars, including Best Picture
• Name for the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
• 1888 symphonic suite by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

Down Clues

• The ancient Greek goddess of peace
• See 54
• Actor whose films include Big Daddy, The Wedding Singer and Punch-Drunk Love
• Anti-tank weapon named after a musical instrument popularised in the 1930s by radio comedian Bob Burns
• City in Ohio nicknamed “Rubber Capital of the World”
• Gustave ___, French structural engineer who built a tower in Paris that bears his name
• A hard smooth lustrous structure occurring on the inner surface of the shell of a clam or oyster
• Actress best known for playing Sharon Watts in EastEnders
• Naval commissioned officer rank senior to Commodore
• 1971 Rod Stewart single that topped the UK and US charts
• Transliteration for the Urdu and Persian word for meat, used in Indian cookery
• The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical by James Rado and Gerome Ragni
• Raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean
• The form of the molecular structure of DNA
• Neil Diamond song that gave The Monkees their only UK number one single
• Album by Badfinger on which the song Without You first appeared
• Inflammation of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid
• Telly ___, actor who played the title role in the TV series Kojak
• Generic name for any syrup made during the refining of sugar cane
• Town in County Tipperary whose name means “honey meadow”
• 1976 Brian De Palma film based on a novel by Stephen King
• American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter whose surname at birth was Christian
• Multihulled sailing vessel found primarily in the Malay Archipelago and the South Pacific
• Prehistoric giant marine reptile whose name means “fish lizard”
• See 9
• Large tropical reptile whose species include mugger and freshwater varieties
• Any of the spore-bearing gills of a mushroom
• Turkish city on the Orantes river that was an early centre of Christianity
• French city that is the capital of the Somme department in Picardie
• Department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France named after a river that runs through it
• County of Wales from 1974 to 1996
• Hebrew prophet of the late 8th century BC called “The Morasthite”
• Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher whose works include Eine Faust-Symphonie
• Legendary king of the Britons, preceded by Urianus and succeeded by Cledaucus, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth