Jumbo General August 01, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8, 30 and 53 Across? Connection from #579 London, Tokyo and Berlin were the venues for cancelled Summer Olympiads

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Crossword GK Jumbo 580 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 01, 2020

Across Clues

• English actor whose TV series include Only Fools and Horses, The Darling Buds of May and A Touch of Frost
• American baseball team whose home has been Fenway Park since 1912
• A military tribunal
• Canadian actor and comedian who starred in the Wayne’s World, Austin Powers and Shrek films
• The southernmost and the shallowest of the Great Lakes
• Slender feline mammal of the African bush
• In botany, a dense mass of hyphae in which a fungus fructification may develop
• King of Mercia from 757 to 796
• Stream that in ancient times was the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul
• In Zen Buddhism, the state of sudden indescribable intuitive enlightenment
• The phenomenon in which magnetic flux is excluded from a substance when it is in a superconducting state, except for a thin layer at the surface
• With Vladimir, one of the two main characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• Insect of the order Dermaptera
• Welsh boxer nicknamed “The Rock” who held the WBA super lightweight title from 2007 to 2008
• English essayist and critic who wrote under the pen name Elia
• The capital of Guam
• Literary magazine started by Oliver Goldsmith in 1759, subtitled Literary Intelligencer
• The largest market town in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border
• Market town at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon
• The largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire
• Karl ___, German admiral named as Adolf Hitler’s successor as head of state in April 1945
• The third and final studio album by Nirvana, released in 1993
• See 28
• Richard ___, German romantic composer whose works include The Ring of the Nibelung
• The capital of Lesotho
• The chief coalmining and industrial region of Germany
• Scottish Championship football team nicknamed “The Honest Men”
• English pop group whose original members were Liz McClarnon, Natasha Hamilton and Kerry Katona
• TV presenter and entertainer associated with shows such as The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and Strictly Come Dancing
• Play by Harold Pinter written in 1974

Down Clues

• The capital of Louisiana
• Benjamin ___, prime minister and author whose novels include Coningsby and Sybil
• A cloth covering the back and arms of chairs, etc., to prevent soiling
• Theme song of the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale by Soundgarden singer-guitarist Chris Cornell
• Song by Arthur Hamilton first made famous by Julie London in 1955
• Dog in the comic strip Garfield
• The bending back of a part, especially the hand or foot or their digits
• Author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
• Jean-Paul ___, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist whose works include Being and Nothingness and Nausea
• Indonesian island whose capital is Denpasar
• Beatles song written by George Harrison that was released as a double A-sided single with Come Together
• Steroid hormone secreted chiefly by the ovaries and placenta
• 1928 R C Sherriff play set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, in 1918
• The second largest city in Alaska
• Comedy panel game created and hosted by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
• Cruise ship hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985
• American actress who won a best actress Oscar for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer’s Daughter
• City in Canada on Great Slave Lake that is capital of the Northwest Territories
• 19th-century English art critic and social reformer whose works include Modern Painters and Unto this Last
• Member of The Addams Family played by Christina Ricci in the 1990s film adaptations
• English property developer and TV presenter of shows such as Property Ladder and Help! My House is Falling Down
• Device that controls the quantity of fuel or fuel and air mixture entering an engine
• Element with the atomic number two
• English city called Aquae Sulis by the Romans
• The grass Oryza sativa