Jumbo General November 02, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 21 Across and 45 Across? Connection from #800 Michael Caine, Chris Tucker and Dennis Waterman have played characters with the surname Carter

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Crossword GK Jumbo 801 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 02, 2024

Across Clues

• American international centre-back who left Fulham for Charlotte FC in August
• University city in central Germany on the river Saale
• 1993 film starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1976
• Amorphous mineral that is a source of iron
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1984 and 2000
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1992, despite failing to qualify for the tournament
• In cricket, rounders, etc, a team’s or individual batsman’s turn at batting
• Naturally occurring granular material often composed of silica in the form of quartz
• Fictional Japanese secret agent created by American author John P Marquand
• The seabird Larus argentatus, which has black-tipped white wings and pink legs
• 1827 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third featuring Natty Bumppo, subtitled A Tale
• Inaugural winners of football’s European Championships in 1960
• English translation of a German proverb that first appeared in the medieval German beast epic Reinhart Fuchs by Heinrich der Glïchezäre
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1988
• A flock of ravens
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1972 and 1980
• Canadian singer who won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1996
• Town in Bridgend County Borough, Wales, whose name translates as ‘fair field’
• A martial arts instructor
• Plant such as Galanthus nivalis, which has white bell-shaped flowers that bloom in early spring
• Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000
• Poem written by Horace c. 19 BC and first translated into English in 1566 by Thomas Drant
• Mixture of flour and fat used as the thickening agent in several classical French sauces
• Character in Dallas played by Larry Hagman

Down Clues

• Type of restaurant, the oldest of which still operating today was founded in Naples in 1738
• An eight-legged invertebrate animal in the subphylum Chelicerata
• The capital of the former province of West Pakistan
• The basic SI unit of thermodynamic temperature
• The large Eurasian passerine bird Corvus monedula
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1968 and 2021
• The head or general of the Cossacks
• Another name for gorse
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 2016
• Italian jockey who won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2017 and 2018 aboard Enable
• With Estragon, one of the two main characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam
• The part of a firearm behind the barrel or bore
• American city whose port is the busiest cruise ship passenger port in the world
• English name for the fifth sign of the zodiac
• German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1971 by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from Kraftwerk
• City in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, where the Fox River enters Lake Winnebago
• Daughter of Zeus and Leda whose abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War
• William ___, English chemist noted for his modification of the atomic theory in the early 19th century
• In printing, another name for a solidus
• Municipality in the Province of Batangas, Philippines, politically subdivided into 26 barangays
• Chris ___, Welsh radio broadcaster who received a Variety Club of Great Britain Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009
• 2006 top ten hit single by Diddy featuring Christina Aguilera
• Jack ___, American actor best known for his work with director David Lynch, such as his role as Henry Spencer in Eraserhead
• A female sheep
• A magician and duke in the medieval German epic poem Parzival
• Real first name of singer Billie Holiday
• Name of the Enchanter played by John Cleese in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• African country whose capital is Windhoek
• American author best known for The Da Vinci Code
• 1980s BBC1 TV series starring Rob Heyland as vet Donald Turner
• See 12
• Cordlike bundles of fibres to which the adjective neural relates
• Glandular organ situated below the thyroid that atrophies with age and is almost nonexistent in adults
• In Zen Buddhism, the state of sudden indescribable intuitive enlightenment
• Winners of football’s European Championships in 1964, 2008, 2012 and 2024
• A type of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to the other