Jumbo General August 14, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 25 and 41 Across? Connection from #633 Genesis, Keane and Radiohead were formed at public school

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Crossword GK Jumbo 634 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 14, 2021

Across Clues

• 1967 song by The Kinks performed by Ray Davies at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics
• Craig ___, 1982 US Masters golf champion known as “The Walrus”
• Citrus fruit whose oil gives Earl Grey tea its distinctive flavour
• British sprinter who became the youngest ever 100m medallist at the 1999 World Championships
• 1976 Brian De Palma film based on a novel by Stephen King
• Nontechnical name for a negative pressure ventilator
• Principality in the Pyrenees between France and Spain
• Patriotic song of Scotland with lyrics written by Robert Burns as Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn
• Fictional American location that is home to Batman
• Tottenham Hotspur player who was voted PFA Player of the Year and Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year in 1987
• Channel between Australia and New Guinea linking the Arafura Sea with the Coral Sea
• Scottish international midfielder who joined Dundee from Reading in 2020
• Welsh resort and university town in Ceredigion, on Cardigan Bay
• 2007 film starring Steve Carell as the title character and Morgan Freeman as God
• French composer of the ballets Coppélia and Sylvia, and the opera Lakmé
• Scottish rugby union player who married TV presenter Gabby Yorath in 2001
• Australian-born US rugby international who had two spells at Saracens, 2008–12 and 2014–16
• See 53
• Town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders with an abbey that was founded in 1147
• The wife of Odin in Norse mythology
• Poetry collection by Walt Whitman first published in 1855
• A musical work such as Die Fledermaus or The Merry Widow
• German composer whose works include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome
• 2003 novel by Dan Brown featuring the characters Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu

Down Clues

• François ___, French Renaissance writer whose best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel
• The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Breed of dog named after the home of the Dukes of Newcastle
• Kelly ___, American comedian whose BBC series won a Silver Rose at the Montreux Television Festival
• 1973 double album by The Who that was their second rock opera
• Berkshire town with a public school for boys founded in 1440
• Japanese brewery founded in Osaka in 1889
• The smallest state of Australia
• See 48
• 1996 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan and Vanessa L Williams
• Previous name for Birmingham City from 1888 to 1905
• African country whose capital is Niamey
• 1991 John Landis film starring Sylvester Stallone that is a remake of a 1967 French film of the same name
• An obsolete form of the lute with two necks
• Plant that is the national emblem of Scotland
• French city with a ferry link to Portsmouth
• 1995 Mike Figgis film for which Nicolas Cage won a Best Actor Oscar
• The last song on Side One of the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen
• American actor and comedian who came to prominence playing Jodie Dallas in the US sitcom Soap
• Tourist attraction on the south shore of the island of Oahu in Hawaii
• Danish astronomer who lost part of his nose in a sword duel over the legitimacy of a mathematical formula
• A person skilled in a Japanese martial art characterised by stealthy movement and camouflage
• Hans Werner ___, German composer whose works include the oratorio The Raft of the Medusa
• See 27
• African country whose capital is Addis Ababa
• 1987 Australian film starring Judy Davis as a backing singer for an Elvis Presley impersonator
• The westernmost city in mainland South America, in northwestern Peru
• Elvis Presley’s last UK hit single before his death
• Raised vault of the foot formed by the tarsal and metatarsal bones
• In the Old Testament, the Philistine city-state that was home to Goliath