Jumbo General November 28, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 33 and 47 Across? Connection from #596 Rutherford, Kenny and Grainger are surnames of British 2012 Olympic gold medallists

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Crossword GK Jumbo 597 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 28, 2020

Across Clues

• 2014 film based on stories by Michael Bond
• John Steinbeck novella featuring the characters George Milton and Lennie Small
• Australian actress who won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours
• Greek philosopher who was tutor to Alexander the Great
• See 14
• Name for the hemiepiphytic West Indian tree Clusia major
• Football team that plays home games at Stamford Bridge
• Ottawa war chief after whom a struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region in the 1760s was named
• In physics, the force that sets a body in motion or that tends to resist changes in its motion
• See 51
• Unrhymed poetry, especially in iambic pentameters
• City in the Netherlands that is the home of Philips and DAF Trucks
• A long low ridge with a steep scarp slope and a gentle back slope, formed by the erosion of strata of differing hardness
• American punk rock band on whose songs the musical American Idiot is based
• Old English coin worth five shillings
• ___ homicide, an offence under Scottish common law roughly equivalent to the offence of manslaughter in English law
• The yellow-and-black Eurasian finch Carduelis spinus
• 1975 novel by Stephen King, originally entitled Second Coming
• See 23
• Capital of the French department of Haute Savoie
• 1841 ballet with music by Adolphe Adam
• Honoré ___, 19th-century French painter and lithographer noted for his political and social caricatures
• The state capital of Nebraska
• Florentine painter named from the fact that his father was a tailor
• Protagonist of Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo
• Opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo
• Wife of Bob Ferris in the classic BBC sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? played by Brigit Forsyth
• English actress whose films include The Railway Children, Logan’s Run, Equus and An American Werewolf in London
• Town in the Czech Republic that was the site of Napoleon’s victory over Russian and Austrian armies in 1805

Down Clues

• Tennis trophy won by Great Britain for the only time in 2015
• Canadian city that hosted the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Enclosed space in a church between the outer gate or railing, and the door, of the screen
• New Jersey resort that is famous for its casinos, boardwalk and beach
• In Chinese cookery, a dumpling filled with spiced minced pork, usually served in soup
• A purple variety of sapphire
• Last word in the name of the body that awards Oscars
• British teen magazine published by D C Thomson from 1964 to 1993
• Two one-act plays by Sir Terence Rattigan set at the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth
• The capital of Kenya
• Charles Lutwidge ___, real name of the writer Lewis Carroll
• Device also called an electric eye
• The largest city in Cameroon
• Another name for the cuckoopint
• Vegetables traditionally served with tatties to accompany haggis in a Burns Night supper
• Record company that famously turned down The Beatles
• The county town of County Clare in the Republic of Ireland
• David Bowie song awarded the 1969 Ivor Novello Award, together with Peter Sarstedt’s Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
• Australian rock band fronted by New Zealander Neil Finn
• American company started by a German immigrant in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1853 that became famous for its electronic organs and jukeboxes
• Variety of wheat, Triticum monococcum, with pale red kernels
• Racehorse who won both the Epsom and the Irish Derby in 1991
• 1994 Roland Emmerich film starring Kurt Russell and James Spader
• Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology after whom a psychological complex is named
• Second wife of Philip V of Spain and mother of Charles III of Spain
• Head cook in the 1987 BBC TV series The Victorian Kitchen Garden
• Large town in Greater Manchester between the rivers Irk and Medlock
• Jacques ___, President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1994