Jumbo General April 24, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 18, 35 and 51 Across? Connection from #617 Gulliver’s Travels, The Wrestler and State Of Grace feature the song Sweet Child O’ Mine

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Crossword GK Jumbo 618 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 24, 2021

Across Clues

• US state whose capital is Concord
• The capital and chief port of Paraguay
• Large anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of the forests of Sumatra and Borneo
• Binary star that is the second nearest star to the sun
• Red squirrel character created by Elsie Mills in 1953 to teach children about road safety
• The brightest star in the constellation Orion
• Gerry Goffin and Carole King song covered by The Beatles on their first album, Please Please Me
• Metallic element with the chemical symbol Pb
• 1972 film, produced and directed by Paul Newman, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel
• 2008 Baz Luhrmann film starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman
• The lowest temperature theoretically attainable
• Actor whose films include The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Ardal ___, Irish comedian and actor seen as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted and George Sunday in My Hero
• Mike ___, Canadian-born actor who provides the voice for Shrek
• Song from Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon that was a hit single in the US
• Toxic metalloid element whose atomic number is 33
• ITV drama series that starred Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln
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• 1958 French film directed by Louis Malle with a score by Miles Davis
• 1968 film starring The Monkees
• French port at the head of the Loire estuary that was the scene of the Noyades during the French Revolution
• ___ Valencia, Ecuadorian forward who joined West Ham United from Pachuca in 2014
• Adelina ___, Spanish-born Italian operatic soprano who died in Wales in 1919
• English author whose novels include Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
• ITV drama series originally conceived as a vehicle for Nick Berry in 1992
• American comedian and actor who provides the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story films
• Part of the Rocky Mountains traversed by a branch of the Oregon Trail known as the Lander Road

Down Clues

• The popular tropical fish Paracheirodon innesi
• Australian and New Zealand name for a docker
• ___ Anderson, Rose Tattoo singer whose solo single Suddenly reached number 1 in Australia and number 3 in Britain
• Actor who played the title role in RoboCop
• The part of the vertebrate digestive tract comprising the colon and rectum
• 1979 Albert Brooks film that it is a spoof of the 1973 reality television series An American Family
• A flock of geese in flight
• 1987 film starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss
• The third and final studio album by Nirvana, released in 1993
• In Greek mythology, nymphs who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams and brooks
• ITV drama series that ran from 1969 to 1974 and featured Fulton Mackay, George Sewell, Patrick Mower and Paul Eddington
• In the Old Testament, a diviner who, when summoned to curse the Israelites, prophesied future glories for them instead
• A gymnasium in Athens that was the location of the peripatetic school of Aristotle
• In the Roman Catholic church, a weekday, other than Saturday, on which no feast occurs
• French city that was the scene of the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431
• City in Tunisia 140 km south of Tunis
• Georges ___, Belgian writer best known for creating the detective Maigret
• Widely cultivated herbaceous garden plant of the family Cruciferae with clusters of small yellow or white flowers
• The tropical African tree Elaeis guineensis
• In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet exiled to Babylon in 597 BC
• US author of the Lost Generation whose novels include Manhattan Transfer
• Character in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats originally played by Sarah Brightman
• Communications code word for the letter Y
• One of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and Aramis
• 1966 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
• Sub-genre of dancehall music characterised by songs such as Wayne Smith’s Under Me Sleng Teng
• Comedian born Cyril Mead in Blackpool in 1942
• 1972 blaxploitation film with a soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield
• Horse that won the 1991 Grand National
• 1983 Billy Joel song that topped the UK chart for five weeks
• Chris ___, actor who played Roy Mallard in People Like Us and Hugh Abbot in The Thick of It
• In Greek mythology, a hunter of Boeotia who was turned into a stag and torn apart by his own hounds
• The fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Hebrew calendar
• 1993 film that tells the story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed into the Andes in 1972
• Walter ___, English essayist and critic whose works include the novel Marius the Epicurean
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