Jumbo General January 02, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 39 and 52 Across? Connection from #601 Shane Meadows, Charles Babbage and Maurice Utrillo were born on Boxing Day

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Crossword GK Jumbo 602 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 02, 2021

Across Clues

• French composer whose works include the Symphonie fantastique
• 1953 British film featuring a musical score by Larry Adler
• French Formula One driver who was world champion in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993
• Best Director Oscar-winner for Dances with Wolves
• See 51
• Samuel ___, British composer best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha
• American golfer nicknamed “The Walrus”
• Sultanate whose capital is Muscat
• The capital of Denmark
• The largest country in the world
• The Monkees’ last number one hit in the US
• Another name for ascorbic acid
• A rhythmic and syncopated dance of Cuban origin
• Chris ___, goalkeeper whose sole England cap in 2006 earned his father and friends £10,000 each for a bet made eleven years earlier
• Stoke, Desborough and Burnham, the stewardship of which is a sinecure appointment used as a device allowing an MP to resign his or her seat
• Month that ends on the same day of the week as November every year
• Australian actor whose autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was published shortly after his death
• In the Old Testament, the twin brother of Jacob, to whom he exchanged his birthright for some “red pottage”
• North American Mennonite sect known for simple living, plain dress and reluctance to adopt modern technology
• Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was stripped of her gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics after testing positive for this decongestant drug
• Nobel Prize-winning American dramatist whose works include Long Day’s Journey into Night
• New Zealand-born Australian actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator
• English adventurer, writer and television presenter appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35 in 2009
• American writer known as the “Sage of Baltimore”
• American golfer who won the 1997 Open at Royal Troon

Down Clues

• German doughnut known as Pfannkuchen in the city from which it takes its usual name
• The capital of Libya
• English translation of the Italian nickname of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major
• In music, a character that lowers a note a semitone
• A city in New York State, near New York City on the Hudson River
• The military ruler of the Central African Republic from 1966 and the Emperor of the Central African Empire from 1976 until he was overthrown in 1979
• A monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhere
• Swaggering soldier who appears in William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V
• Pseudonym of the poet and satirist E V Knox, editor of Punch, 1932-1949
• The capital of Georgia, on the Kura River
• Roman poet whose works include Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses
• British Shipping Forecast area between Irish Sea and Plymouth
• The executive chairman of McLaren Automotive and McLaren Group, and team principal of McLaren, the group’s Formula One team, until 2009
• Hirudo medicinalis, Hirudo orientalis, Hirudo troctina and Hirudo verbana, for example
• The third largest city in Japan
• The large Eurasian goose Anser anser
• Jean ___, French dramatist whose works include as Phèdre, Andromaque and Athalie
• A type of monochrome photographic print
• Character in Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield who lives in an “umble abode”
• See 20 Across
• See 50
• French city that was the scene of the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431
• Fragrant resin obtained from tropical trees, such as those of the family Burseraceae
• 1946 film, starring Robert Young and Barbara Hale, about a professional gambler
• Actress who played Sally in the 1989 film When Harry Met Sally…
• The small Asian passerine bird Calandrella raytal
• In Greek mythology, a king of Thessaly, one of the Argonauts, who was married to Alcestis
• Suzanne ___, six-times Wimbledon ladies singles champion who sipped brandy between sets
• Hanns ___, Leipzig-born composer who was one of the first artists placed on the Hollywood blacklist by the movie studio bosses
• 1991 Steven Spielberg film starring Dustin Hoffman in the title role
• Former EastEnders actress who passed out after a day on the fifth series of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in 2005
• Caribbean fruit that is a cross between a tangerine, grapefruit and orange
• Island in the Firth of Clyde whose chief town is Rothesay