Jumbo General January 25, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 30 and 46 Across? Connection from #552 Matt Dawson, Nadia Sawalha and Ade Edmondson are Celebrity MasterChef winners

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Crossword GK Jumbo 553 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 25, 2020

Across Clues

• The first Elvis Costello single that credited the Attractions as his backing band
• Hungarian forename shared by the footballer Puskás and the dramatist Molnár
• Gavin ___, English author of espionage thrillers whose first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, was published in 1961
• The capital of Curaçao
• British poet who was poet laureate from 1968 to 1972
• A large destructive sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, subsidence or volcanic eruption
• Bookmakers’ slang for odds of 3/1
• The first part of the Talmud
• John Kenneth ___, Canadian-born US economist and diplomat who wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State
• Malaysian oil and gas company founded in 1974
• Site of a penal colony here in French Guiana featured in Henri Charrière’s memoir Papillon
• Martin ___, scorer of one of England’s four goals in the 1966 World Cup Final
• Author who created Harry Potter
• A simple eye of certain arthropods, also called a lateral ocellus
• Inflammation of the brain
• Opening batsman who won seven successive County Championship titles with Surrey in the 1950s having previously played football for Walsall
• A short-barrelled pocket pistol of large calibre
• In horse racing, a horse with stamina
• Traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat whose name literally means “empty hand”
• Italian dumplings made with semolina pasta or potatoes
• English author whose works include The Heaven Tree Trilogy
• Body of water in New York state used by the US Navy to test equipment such as transducers and sonar arrays and systems
• Peter ___, British painter who was co-founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists in 1969
• An electrical circuit, especially one containing a capacitor, providing an alternative path for certain frequencies
• Song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King that made The Shirelles the first all-girl group to have a US number one single

Down Clues

• Dialect word for a spider used by Bilbo Baggins in J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit
• Ernest ___, British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic, during the first of which the south magnetic pole was located
• Ford model replaced by the Escort
• 1989 film starring Bridget Fonda, Bruno Ganz and Blair Brown, written and directed by David Hare
• English actress who was a mistress of Charles II
• Island in the Straits of Florida associated with Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams
• Black grape used in winemaking whose name literally means “young blackbird”
• The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism
• The surname of the Judas who betrayed Jesus, according to the New Testament
• The fifth-longest river in the UK, forming part of the border between England and Wales for much of its length
• “They went to sea in a Sieve, they did”, according to Edward Lear
• A small slow-moving lizard with the ability to change colour
• 1888 play by August Strindberg set on Midsummer’s Eve on the estate of a Swedish count
• Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth
• Another name for the plant valerian, which has a medicinal root
• Real first name of Kim Campbell, Canada’s first female Prime Minister
• The small graceful animal Capreolus capreolus
• George ___, the man with the scores played by Matt Lucas on the TV game show Shooting Stars
• In mathematics, the dividend of a fraction
• The largest island of Greece
• City in eastern New York, near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers
• Belfast-born rugby player who won 69 caps for Ireland and 12 for the British and Irish Lions
• A variant spelling of the plant Hamamelis virginiana, whose leaves and bark may be used to produce an astringent
• The bird Bubo bubo
• Small furry animals in the Star Trek universe that react to the presence of Klingons
• New Zealand–born Australian author whose best-known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow
• 1977 Don Siegel spy film starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and Lee Remick
• Surname shared by the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland football managers at Euro 2016
• In Greek mythology, son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from “27 Down”
• In Greek mythology, a Phoenician king of Tyre who was the father of Europa
• 2004 horror film directed by James Wan that spawned many sequels