Jumbo General January 09, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 20, 31 and 45 Across? Connection from #602 Kevin Costner, Errol Flynn and Russell Crowe played Robin Hood in films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 603 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 09, 2021

Across Clues

• Industrial town in North Yorkshire on the Tees estuary
• Large town in Northern Ireland near to the mouth of the River Bann
• 1986 film by Ivan Reitman starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah
• Don McLean song about “the day the music died”
• Capital of the Republic of Maldives
• Local or general loss of bodily sensation
• William Ralph ___, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral nicknamed “The Gloomy Dean”
• Athenian philosopher who died by drinking hemlock
• Greek mathematician called the “Father of Geometry”
• Asian republic on the Mediterranean Sea established in 1948 in the former British mandate of Palestine
• Virus-like bacterium responsible for diseases such as trachoma and psittacosis
• Katie ___, American swimmer who won three medals at the 2008 Olympics
• European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, the females and larvae of which bear luminescent organs
• Communications code word for the letter O
• The capital and largest city of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Coin worth approximately 8 shillings issued by the East India Company at Madras
• American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright whose books include Eimi and ViVa
• Region of the Earth whose name means ‘near the bear’
• The female of the ruff
• Hit single from Fleetwood Mac’s eponymous 1975 album
• The New Zealand parrot Nestor meridionalis
• Long-running TV show based on the French game show Des chiffres et des lettres
• Member of a class of small freeholders of common birth who cultivated their own land
• ___ University is a Palestinian university in Jerusalem, founded in 1984
• Arachnid whose tail terminates in a venomous sting
• In architecture, a moulding having a cross section in the form of a letter S
• The pilot of Thunderbird 2 in the Thunderbirds TV show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
• 2003 single by Linkin Park that topped the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for 12 weeks
• Tropical American plant also known as slipperwort
• Composer of the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches
• The science or study of signs
• 1983 John Landis film starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy

Down Clues

• Landlocked nation in Western Africa whose capital is Bamako
• 1999 film featuring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
• Norwegian town that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics
• Perennial marsh plant of the plumbaginaceous genus Limonium
• The seventh album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1997
• Genus of bears that includes the brown bears, the polar bear and black bears
• Musical loosely based on the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë that was the brainchild of Cliff Richard
• Troilus and ___, 1602 tragedy by William Shakespeare
• Verdi opera based on the play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller
• Currency unit of Brazil, subdivided into 100 centavos
• Pastoral poem by John Milton published in 1645
• The administrative centre of Devon
• Measurement and testing of mental states and processes
• Flowering plant genus that includes the phalsa and the crossberry
• Condition characterised by acute spasmodic abdominal pain
• The third secretary-general of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971
• Vincent ___, Dutch postimpressionist painter whose works include The Starry Night
• British novelist who wrote a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice called Pemberley
• Plumbaginaceous plant of the “4 Down” genus Limonium cultivated for its everlasting flowers
• Character in The Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice born in the late 15th Century to the hunter Ivan
• Another name for the tree Prunus salicina
• The capital of Bahrain
• Welsh composer, singer and actor born David Davies in 1893
• Fictional confection originating in a sketch entitled Trade Description Act in the first series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus
• English crime writer who created Chief Inspector Wexford
• Long, thin white mushroom used in Japanese cuisine
• Former Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye and for Beckenham who stood down at the 2010 general election.
• British dance band leader and clarinetist from the 1920s until the 1960s whose real surname was Lipman
• 1980 album by Daryl Hall and John Oates featuring the original version of Everytime You Go Away, later covered by Paul Young
• An ethnic group of Guyana and northern Brazil whose yaskomo, or shaman, is believed to be able to perform a soul flight
• The eighth letter of the Greek alphabet
• The 15th studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2007
• City in Nevada known as “The Biggest Little City in the World”
• Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart is Cupid