Jumbo General April 17, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 33 and 53 Across? Connection from #615 Justin Welby, Bear Grylls and Eddie Redmayne are Old Etonians

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Crossword GK Jumbo 617 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 17, 2021

Across Clues

• 2010 film, starring Jack Black, loosely based on an 18th-century novel by Jonathan Swift
• See 20
• The backbone
• An archaic name for the gannet
• Lead vocalist of the band Guns N’ Roses, raised as William Bruce Bailey
• Period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is completely obscured
• Character in the novel Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens who marries Joe Willet
• The bird Alauda arvensis, noted for singing while hovering at a great height
• Midfielder who scored against his Tottenham Hotspur team-mate Hugo Lloris on his first start for England in a 2–0 win against France at Wembley
• The principal body cavity in most animals, located between the intestinal canal and the body wall
• Richard Brinsley ___, Irish dramatist whose works include The Rivals and School for Scandal
• The large game bird Lyrurus tetrix
• Lead guitarist of the band Guns N’ Roses, born Saul Hudson in Hampstead in 1965
• Darren Aronofsky film for which Mickey Rourke won a BAFTA
• A young eel, especially one migrating up a river from the sea
• See 40
• Song by Clean Bandit, featuring vocals from Jess Glynne, that spent four weeks at number one in 2014
• Perry Como hit that was the first single to receive a gold record certification
• Zara ___, 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year
• Wiltshire market town whose name means “the castle at the boundaries”
• See 55
• Chimpanzee, orang-utan or gorilla
• Genus of cacti that includes the prickly pear
• 1983 Billy Joel song that topped the UK chart for five weeks
• 1990 film starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman
• Tea launched by Brooke Bond in the 1930s as Pre-Gest-Tee
• Popular song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by Ben E King and The Drifters

Down Clues

• The large marine mammal Megaptera novaeangliae
• A substance used to produce low temperatures
• Song written and originally recorded in 1971 by Labi Siffre, later successfully covered by Madness
• Actress who played Tracy Barlow in Coronation Street between 1988 and 1999
• The supreme god of the ancient Greeks
• Czech-born tennis player who was US Open champion 1985-87
• Thick dark liquid mixture prepared from coal tar, used as a preservative for wood
• The Pacific fish Oncorhynchus nerka, also called sockeye
• See 6
• Russian city formerly known as Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad
• 1993 film starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and Barbara Hershey
• Raymond Chandler’s first original screenplay, for the film that marked the third pairing of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
• Colorado silver mining town, in what is now Rocky Mountain National Park, named after the daughter of Fort Collins entrepreneur Benjamin F Burnett
• See 4
• The capital and largest city of the Thessaly region of Greece
• American actor best known for playing Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho
• Antonio ____, Italian composer and conductor played by F Murray Abraham in the 1984 film Amadeus
• Primitive religious symbol officially adopted in 1935 as the emblem of Nazi Germany
• American keyboardist whose album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award
• The Muslim name for God
• 1973 film starring Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan, based on a novel by Richard Stark
• Area of the Caribbean invaded in 1961 by Cuban exiles attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro
• Country whose capital is Phnom Penh
• In Greek mythology, the seven daughters of Atlas, placed as stars in the sky
• County in the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Lifford
• Otter who is the subject of a 1927 novel by Henry Williamson
• John Forbes ___, American mathematician played by Russell Crowe in the film A Beautiful Mind
• See 3
• The burrow of a badger