Jumbo General January 11, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 25 and 53 Across? Connection from #550 Goldeneye, Live And Let Die and Casino Royale were an actor’s debut as James Bond

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Crossword GK Jumbo 551 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 11, 2020

Across Clues

• Carnivorous green insect that rests with the first pair of legs raised
• Dog such as Marmaduke in a newspaper comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Scooby-Doo
• US state known as the Hoosier state
• Winner of the women’s modern pentathlon at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
• Alter ego of Ororo Munroe in the X-Men film series played by Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp
• See 35
• 1929 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialised in the magazine Black Mask
• Urban area in South Wales whose last coal mine closed in 1990
• Mikhail ___, Russian anarchist and writer expelled from the First International after conflicts with Karl Marx
• Indian tree, also called a bo tree, resembling the banyan and regarded as sacred by Buddhists
• Russ ___, cult American film director whose successful low-budget sexploitation films include Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
• BBC sitcom created by Johnny Speight in 1965
• A pale yellow Swiss cheese with holes
• Fruit whose name is derived from a Nahuatl word for testicle
• 1977 Richard Attenborough film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by William Goldman
• Song from Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album featuring John Paul Jones on mandolin
• Joint containing the talus
• The capital of the Czech Republic
• A type of percussion orchestra common in the East Indies
• Widely cultivated herbaceous garden plant of the family Cruciferae with clusters of small yellow or white flowers
• 1958 Blake Edwards film, starring Debbie Reynolds, adapted from the F Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money
• Soluble powder that turns red under acid conditions
• The capital of Vietnam
• Asian starling, also called an Indian grackle, that is a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
• Name for someone who broadcasts on Citizens’ Band radio
• Civil rights activist who in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger
• 1970 David Lean film starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles and John Mills

Down Clues

• Two-man group comprising Bill Elliott and Bobby Purvis responsible for the 1974 hit single Costafine Town
• The branch of medicine concerned with the heart and its diseases
• The capital of Albania
• An ancient alphabetical writing system used by the Celts in Britain and Ireland
• Bert ___, Scottish guitarist who was a founding member of Pentangle
• A line on a map connecting places with an equal period of sunshine
• Boo ___, golfer whose only Ryder Cup appearance was with the victorious US team in 2008
• Son of Poseidon and brother of Ephialtes in Greek mythology
• American composer whose best-known works include Fanfare for the Common Man
• The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, often considered his masterpiece
• 1991 Ridley Scott film starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in the title roles
• Another name for puffer or porcupine fish
• 1991 single by AC/DC played by German Bundesliga football club Mainz 05 at half time
• The temple on the Acropolis in Athens built in the 5th century BC
• Former Yorkshire, Essex and England bowler who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2005
• 1975 top ten hit for Jonathan King subtitled White Dove
• Mountainous Mediterranean island that was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first place of exile
• The capital of Pakistan
• Gog ___ Downs, range of low chalk hills south east of Cambridge
• Satellite of Jupiter discovered in 1979
• System of Christian belief that rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ
• 1980s comic for children to which a young Charlie Brooker contributed the characters Freddie Flop, Disgusting Des, Clint Gritwood and Transmogrifying Tracey
• Plant also known as the belladonna lily or naked ladies
• Cole Porter’s 1948 musical take on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
• DJ who presented the children’s TV game show Fun House from 1989 to 1999
• Opening word of the 51st psalm in Latin
• 1996 comedy film parodying James Bond movies starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan
• Real first name of actor Rip Torn
• King of Ammon, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, who was killed by Saul
• A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere
• Zaheer ___, bespectacled Pakistani cricketer who was the first batsman to score three consecutive centuries in one-day internationals
• A group of Bantu warriors