Jumbo General December 05, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 29 and 49 Across? Connection from #597 Paddington, Crown and Lincoln can all precede green

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Crossword GK Jumbo 598 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 05, 2020

Across Clues

• Actor who plays Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels
• Moroccan city almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1960
• An American drink made with bourbon whiskey, crushed ice, sugar, and sprigs of a herb
• American TV series created by David Chase and revolving around a character played by James Gandolfini
• The second-largest island in the Mediterranean
• Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumage
• Suburb in the London Borough of Barnet with a tube station on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line
• A 1969 UK top ten hit for Motown singer Marv Johnson
• Roman poet best known for the Aeneid
• White crystalline bitter alkaloid found in tea, coffee and cocoa
• A long narrow two-edged sword with a guarded hilt
• A gold-coloured alloy of copper, tin or zinc used to decorate furniture, mouldings, etc
• Singer and actress whose single Smile was a UK number one in 2006
• English model, actress and singer born Lesley Hornby
• Small market town in the Craven district of North Yorkshire
• 25 April, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand
• See 44
• The ignition of a substance or body as a result of internal oxidation processes
• A small brightly-coloured long-tailed parrot such as Psittacula krameri
• Founding member of The Clash and Public Image Limited
• A plateau of central Spain associated with Don Quixote
• An edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys
• US film actor born Alexander Archibald Leach in Bristol in 1904
• A strong-smelling yellow-flowered plant of which finocchio is a variety
• Film award known as a Razzie for short

Down Clues

• Militant Palestinian leader born Sabri Khalil al-Banna who changed his name to one meaning “father of struggle”
• Roman Emperor whose adopted son was Hadrian
• Belfast-born actor nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game
• The first hit single by Status Quo, released in November 1967
• The ___, Oscar-nominated 1935 John Ford film starring Victor McLaglen and Heather Angel
• American screenwriting and directing duo whose films include There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber and Shallow Hal
• See 47
• Rudolf ___, German engineer who invented a type of internal-combustion engine in 1892
• Syncopated dance in duple time that originated in Cuba
• A gadoid food fish with a dark green back and a projecting lower jaw
• British rock band whose 70s hits included Block Buster! and The Ballroom Blitz
• The northernmost city in the United Kingdom
• Song composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel for the 1963 West End musical Pickwick that is usually associated with Sir Harry Secombe
• Rudolf ___, composer of the operettas Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King
• A plant that has leaves in all seasons
• The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
• ___, the Inebriate Woman, 1971 Play for Today TV drama starring Patricia Hayes in the title role
• Pen name of Charles Lamb
• Italian region whose capital is Rome
• Nickname of the 34th president of the US
• English composer noted for his setting of Shakespearean songs and for his song Rule Britannia
• Character who sells Romeo an elixir of death in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet
• Stage name of the American rapper, singer and actor born Nathaniel Dwayne Hale
• Country whose capital is Minsk
• British architectural critic who coined the term ‘subtopia’
• The patron saint of Scotland
• A hut village in southern Africa, especially one surrounded by a stockade
• Robert ___, president of Zimbabwe from 1988
• Character played on TV by Patricia Routledge from 1996 to 1998