Jumbo General November 09, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 37 Across and 53 Across? Connection from #801 France, Sand and Celine are assumed surnames of French novelists

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Crossword GK Jumbo 802 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 09, 2024

Across Clues

• John the Baptist’s father
• Popular song by Michael Edwards and Bud Green that has been recorded by Tommy Dorsey, Patti Page and The Chimes, among others
• A top ten hit single for The Who in 1965
• Former England cricket captain who also played football for Yeovil Town and Scunthorpe United
• English cricketer best known for captaining the English team during the 1932–33 ‘Bodyline’ Ashes tour of Australia
• Augusto ___, president of Chile from 1974 to 1990 following his overthrow of Salvador Allende
• Novel by Charles Dickens centred around the Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce
• Formerly, the Soviet administrative department responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps
• American record label founded in 1971, specifically to provide a record contract for Jackson Browne
• Another name for the larynx
• Former England cricket captain who established a charitable foundation in honour of his late wife Ruth
• Scottish disco singer, born Jacqueline McKinnon, who had a 1980 UK number one with Feels Like I’m in Love
• What the C stands for in CV
• Captain of the England cricket team for 45 Test matches from 1999 to 2003
• Another name for coriander
• The capital of Greece
• The Japanese art of fencing
• Former England cricket captain who was one of the team captains on the BBC quiz They Think It’s All Over from 1995 to 2003
• Former Surrey and England captain who was Chairman of the England cricket selectors from 1982 to 1989
• Actor who played Johnny Cash in the film Walk the Line
• New Zealand-born cricketer who hit an unbeaten 135 to win the Ashes Test at Headingley in 2019
• Former England cricket captain who overtook Wally Hammond as the most prolific Test batsman
• American editor and author who was editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine throughout the 1970s and 1980s and founding editor of Esquire UK in 1990
• Tree whose edible green kernels are used in ice creams

Down Clues

• European country that existed from October 1918 to January 1993
• A pictorial representation of a facility on a computer system
• Mineral that is the chief source of lead
• Willo the ___, TV cartoon series narrated by Kenneth Williams featuring the characters Mavis Cruet and Evil Edna
• Scottish snooker player who won the first of his four world titles in 1998
• In the Old Testament, a recognised scholar and teacher of the Jewish Law
• Canadian city that is the capital of Manitoba
• Title of Iranian kings including the Achaemenid dynasty which unified Persia
• A burning torch, as used in night processions
• The rough skin of certain sharks and rays, used as an abrasive
• The fruit of the oak tree
• Iridaceous plant also called a sword lily
• ___ de paume, French ball-and-court game that was a medal event at the 1908 Summer Olympics
• See 22
• Duo comprising brothers Pat and Greg Kane best known for their 1987 top ten hit Labour of Love
• 1923 French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, that used then-revolutionary lighting techniques
• Member of a Mexican Indian people who established a great empire that was overthrown by Cortés in the early 16th century
• City and port in Shiribeshi, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo
• Sayeeda ___, baroness who co-chaired the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012
• Any of two or more physical forms in which an element can exist
• Adele’s first number one single in the UK
• Jim’s dog in Friday Night Dinner
• Belgian town in West Flanders province that was completely destroyed in World War I
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for Leaving Las Vegas
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• British racehorse trainer who trained the Oaks winners Ouija Board and Snow Fairy
• Medieval courtyard house in Sutton Courtenay bought by David Astor in 1958
• A female sheep
• Sport using small light canoe-like boats
• The French word for wine
• The innermost of Jupiter’s known moons
• A kind of quartz, usually red in colour, used as a gemstone
• An oriental pipe also called a hubble-bubble
• Russian for ‘no’
• Graham ___, former member of The Hollies best known for his collaboration with David Crosby and Stephen Stills
• Anders ___, 18th-century Swedish botanist after whom a popular herbaceous perennial plant is named