Jumbo General December 12, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 29 and 55 Across? Connection from #598 Robert Pattinson, Lily Allen and Cary Grant were all expelled from school

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Crossword GK Jumbo 599 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 12, 2020

Across Clues

• Country whose capital is Podgorica
• BBC sitcom that starred husband-and-wife team Judi Dench and Michael Williams
• City in NW France with a Gothic cathedral
• Canadian ice hockey player who was the first to score 50 goals in one season and the first to score 500 goals in a career
• Soldiers serving with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in World War I
• Major river which flows through Pakistan, India and China
• 1979 album by Michael Jackson
• English county whose administrative centre is Chelmsford
• 1994 album by Portishead
• 1992 Rob Reiner film starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore
• Snooker player who claimed his sixth World Championship in 2020
• An inhabitant of the largest US state
• English rock band comprising brothers Jez and Andy Williams and Jimi Goodwin
• The third book of the Old Testament
• The SI unit of frequency
• A galley with three banks of oars on each side, developed by the ancient Greeks as a warship
• Layer of collagen separating the vitreous humour from the rest of the eye
• Any period in which a state lacks a ruler, government, etc.
• 1984 song by The Cars famously used as part of the Live Aid concert in 1985
• Clifford ___, American playwright best known for Waiting for Lefty
• Sandro ___, Florentine painter of the Early Renaissance whose masterpieces include The Birth of Venus and Primavera
• Style of jazz associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
• Edible marine bivalve mollusc for which Whitstable is famous
• Body whose remit is “to build mutually beneficial cultural and educational relationships between the United Kingdom and other countries”
• King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-30
• English darts player who was runner-up in the 1999 and 2000 BDO world championships
• Small town on the River Severn in Shropshire that became part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986

Down Clues

• Best Actor Oscar winner for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in successive years
• Science fiction TV series starring Robert Carlyle as Nicholas Rush
• See 22
• Andre ___, former tennis player whose second wife is Steffi Graf
• Song by James V Monaco and Joseph McCarthy from the 1913 Broadway revue The Honeymoon Express subtitled I Didn’t Want to Do It
• The capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, on the Lena River
• The strong-scented perennial plant Chrysanthemum parthenium, formerly used medicinally
• Simple card game similar to Happy Families
• Henry ___, author of the influential 1851 work London Labour and the London Poor
• The maple genus of trees and shrubs
• First name of the puppet maker in the children’s TV programme Pipkins
• American golfer who won the US Open in 1993 and 1998
• Swiss actress who played Bond girl Honey Ryder in Dr No
• French writer whose works include Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs
• 1939 western in which Marlene Dietrich sings See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have
• Sir Henry ___, English engineer after whom a process for manufacturing steel by blowing air through molten pig iron is named
• Polish river rising in the Carpathian Mountains and flowing past Warsaw and Torun to the Baltic
• 1989 film starring Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck and Jimmy Smits
• Isaac ___, Russian-born American science-fiction writer whose works include the Foundation Trilogy and I, Robot
• Language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch spoken in an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain
• 1998 film starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub and Bruce Willis
• Jude the ___, Thomas Hardy’s last novel
• The largest city and former administrative capital of Sri Lanka
• The sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaea in Greek mythology
• Tropical American tree bearing kidney-shaped edible nuts
• Any of several native peoples of N America or Greenland, as distinguished from those from Asia or the Aleutian Islands
• A bird of the family Columbidae
• Marcelo ___, Chilean tennis player who held the World number one ranking for six weeks in 1998