Jumbo General October 05, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 22 Across, 43 Across and 51 Across? Connection from #796 Maisie, Poppy and Tully are the first names of multiple gold medallists in swimming at the 2024 Olympics

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Crossword GK Jumbo 797 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 05, 2024

Across Clues

• 1984 novel by Milan Kundera
• 1974 satirical Western written and directed by Mel Brooks
• TV Western series that featured the Cartwright family
• In psychoanalysis, the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious
• Name adopted by the Don’t Make a Wave Committee in 1972
• The capital of the Bahamas
• A young woman of upper-class background who is presented to society
• Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC who worked almost exclusively in bronze
• European marine fish of the family Triglidae
• 1953 play by R F Delderfield adapted into the 1956 film Now and Forever, directed by Mario Zampi
• Sport named after the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in Gloucestershire
• 1961 song by Ben E King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
• 1939 short novel by Christopher Isherwood set in Weimar Germany
• Michel ___, French composer who won an Oscar for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair
• Electronic sub-genre of dancehall music that originated in Jamaica during the 1980s
• An emulsion of water and fat used for softening and cleansing the skin
• The fourth largest city in Minnesota, birthplace of Bob Dylan
• US actor, director, poet, playwright, author and social activist who played Da Mayor in Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing
• Scarlet resinous secretion of a number of species of insects of the superfamily Coccoidea
• Pakistan’s largest city
• Character in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility who seduces Colonel Brandon’s 15-year-old ward, Eliza
• The state capital of Nebraska
• Single from Wings’ 1975 album Venus and Mars that reached reached number six in the UK and number one in the US

Down Clues

• US state whose capital is Columbus
• 1992 Woody Allen film featuring Judy Davis and Liam Neeson
• The leading division or units of a military force
• English critic, wit, and caricaturist whose works include Zuleika Dobson
• McFly’s best-selling single
• Fear of ___, 1973 novel by Erica Jong
• Circus impresario played by Hugh Jackman in the 2017 film The Greatest Showman
• The hoisting mechanism at the pithead of a mine
• Canadian prime minister from 1984 to 1993
• A formal baroque dance derived from the jig
• Artificial waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
• In classical music, brilliance of execution
• Stage name of Christa Päffgen who sang on four songs of the Velvet Underground’s debut album
• In ballet, a position in which the arm and leg are extended to the side
• A member of a people who move from place to place to find pasture and food
• The last novel George Eliot completed
• Fossil resin derived from extinct coniferous trees that often contains trapped insects
• A member of a Central American Indian people who dominated the valley of Mexico from their capital Tula from about 950-1160 AD
• Gian Carlo ___, composer of the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors
• The first murder victim, according to the Old Testament
• A nontechnical name for miliaria
• Animated character created by Chuck Jones who attempts to catch The Road Runner
• Brian ___, rugby player who captained the British and Irish Lions on their 2005 tour of New Zealand
• Sir Alec ___, actor whose films include The Bridge on the River Kwai and Star Wars
• See 2
• Ian ___, actor who plays Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films and Magneto in the X-Men films
• A team sport of Native American origin
• Elevated open grassland in Southern Africa
• The rock band Budgie’s second album, released in 1972, with cover art by Roger Dean
• French word for ‘black’