Jumbo General May 29, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 37 and 51 Across? Connection from #622 Seth, Mercy and Charity are the first names of the Pecksniffs in Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

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Crossword GK Jumbo 623 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 29, 2021

Across Clues

• Jazz pianist nicknamed “Fatha”
• A dry white burgundy wine from France
• 1989 single and album by Madonna
• American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts
• The largest town and administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough
• 1961 film starring Elvis Presley as Chadwick Gates
• New Woman novel by H G Wells published in 1909
• Clown in The Simpsons
• The capital of Togo
• Single by Desmond Dekker & The Aces that was the first reggae number one in the UK
• Song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music sung in various locations in Salzburg in the 1965 film
• English poet best known for A Shropshire Lad
• Single-celled ascomycetous fungus of the genus Saccharomyces able to ferment sugars
• Small dungeon in which the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners in 1756
• Surname of the second and sixth presidents of the United States
• Method of trucking used in remote areas of Australia, known as triples or turnpike doubles in the United States
• Railway station in London that opened in 1837 as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway
• Former Wales international football manager whose clubs as a player included Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona and Bayern Munich
• Fashion magazine founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945
• See 12
• English photographer, former husband of actress Catherine Deneuve and model Marie Helvin
• 2012 novel by Ian McEwan, dedicated to Christopher Hitchens
• Another name for halite
• Central character in a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting
• A member of the people living in New Zealand and the Cook Islands since before the arrival of European settlers
• Epic poem by Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden, published in 1808
• American baseball shortstop who appeared in 835 games in the Major Leagues over 11 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers

Down Clues

• American actor whose roles include Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President’s Men
• 1970 film starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black, both of whom were nominated for Oscars for their performances
• Of, denoting or formed in the last period of the Palaeozoic era
• 1959 hit single by The Isley Brothers covered by Lulu in 1964
• 1937 film that providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
• First names of the Italian composer Pergolesi
• See 45
• Town on the east coast of County Antrim with a ferry link to Cairnryan in Scotland
• Ancient Greek city on the Bosphorus founded about 660 BC
• Absalom and ___, a poetic political satire by John Dryden
• A rail at waist level used in ballet practice
• A long low ridge with a steep scarp slope and a gentle back slope
• Part of the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of North America
• The slow-growing, long-lived tree Carya laciniosa, of the walnut family, whose wood is used for tool handles
• 1973 graphic novel by Raymond Briggs whose central character was voiced by Mel Smith in a 1991 animated film adaptation
• 1989 Top Ten hit single by The Beautiful South
• Dance named after a South Carolina coastal city
• Country whose capital is Ottawa
• American actor who played the title role in the 1970s US TV detective series Baretta
• The capital of the Netherlands
• Region of complete shadow resulting from the total obstruction of light by an opaque object, as in a solar eclipse
• Comedian who was a lifelong resident of Knotty Ash in Liverpool
• The base-8 number system
• Pen name of Anne Brontë
• Sultanate whose capital is Muscat