Jumbo General December 19, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 19 and 37 Across? Connection from #599 Maurice Richard, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ronnie Baxter are nicknamed ‘the Rocket’

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Crossword GK Jumbo 600 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 19, 2020

Across Clues

• Bob Dylan’s 34th studio album, released in October 2009
• Arachnid that constructs a burrow with a hinged entrance made of soil, vegetation and silk
• 1972 Alice Cooper single that reached number 4 in the UK charts
• German river that rises in the Black Forest and flows into the Rhine at Mannheim
• Theme from the TV series Owen, MD that gave the Johnny Pearson Orchestra a UK top ten hit in early 1972
• Asian republic established as a British trading post in 1819
• Plant of the genus Aster with small autumn-blooming flowers
• See 13
• Hablot Knight ___, English painter noted for his illustrations for Dickens’ novels under the pseudonym Phiz
• A rapid keyboard composition from the baroque period, usually in a rhythmically free style
• Member of the Monty Python team who wrote and sang the theme song for the TV series One Foot in the Grave
• Buddy ___, American actor and dancer who played Jed Clampett in the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies
• The 20th studio album by Neil Young, released in 1992
• Chinese-born American architect whose works include the glass-and-steel pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris
• A picture or sculpture of Christ crowned with thorns
• Nickname given to Billie Holiday by Lester Young
• City in the Netherlands that was the residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620
• A weather-resistant mixture of dehydrated lime, powdered marble and glue used in decorative mouldings on buildings
• The eighth letter of the Greek alphabet
• The capital of Gabon
• Indian state, originally known as Mysore, whose capital and largest city is Bangalore
• 1945 song by Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger recorded by Danny Kaye
• German architect who was Minister of Armaments and War Production of Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1945
• Surname of the professor of phonetics in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion
• Roman general and governor of Britain who advanced Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth
• 1976 Tom Stoppard play that is interrupted by the play New-Found-Land
• Genus of semiterrestrial amphipod crustaceans in the family Talitridae known as beach fleas

Down Clues

• Drink consisting of liqueur poured over crushed ice
• Fungi, such as yeast, penicillium and truffles, in which the spores are formed inside a club-shaped cell
• Buckinghamshire market town that is the last stop on the Metropolitan main line
• 1965 film starring Tom Adams as secret agent Charles Vine, released in the US under the title The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World
• A collection of probability distribution functions or probability density functions on a given sample space
• In computing, what ROM stands for
• See 50
• The cultivated variety of cabbage Brassica oleracea italica
• Arcangelo ___, Italian violinist and composer whose Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8, is commonly known as the Christmas Concerto
• See 51 Across
• A historic city in Lombardy, 55 kilometres north of Milan, that overlooks a glacial lake of the same name
• The state capital of Texas
• Nickname of Natty Bumppo in James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales
• See 46
• A medieval stringed instrument resembling the violin but with a lute-shaped body
• Dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame’s novel The Wind in the Willows written by A A Milne
• Lake ___, created in 1974, is Syria’s largest
• Shiah sect whose adherents believe that the eldest son of Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq was the rightful seventh imam
• River port, industrial centre, and largest French-speaking city of Belgium
• The capital of Colombia
• Seaside resort on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire
• See 4
• King Lear’s youngest daughter in Shakespeare’s play
• Name applied to a group of about 2,000 species of insects in the family Myrmeleontidae
• American TV series that starred David Hasselhoff as Mitch Buchannon
• In J R R Tolkien’s stories, the female hobbit who bought Bag End from Frodo when he moved to Crickhollow
• A grand tournament in sumo wrestling
• English visual artist who was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998 and made an OBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list
• Dorothy’s dog in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz