Jumbo General August 28, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 18 and 47 Across? Connection from #635 Kenny, Hoy and Clancy are the surnames of British Olympic champions in track cycling

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Crossword GK Jumbo 636 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021

Across Clues

• The only English wicket-keeper to twice claim nine dismissals in a Test match
• Seville-based Spanish football club who won the Copa del Rey in 1977 and 2005
• Shakespears Sister’s only UK number one single
• City of NW Spain, home to the country’s oldest university
• 1985 film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein starring Sting and Jennifer Beals
• English diarist and naval administrator whose diary includes accounts of the Great Plague and the Fire of London
• The most capped English Test wicket-keeper
• 1894 novel by George du Maurier that gave its name to a hat
• District of the City of Westminster named after London’s first neo-classical building, built by the Adam brothers
• A marine percoid fish of the family Labridae
• 1985 single by Prince that reached number two in the US
• The only man to have twice won all four Grand Slam tennis singles titles in the same year
• Shipboard game in which a quoit is tossed to and fro across a high net
• The first document forced onto an English king by a group of his subjects
• The Croatian name for Croatia
• English writer whose best-loved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has Broken
• Texas city in which John F Kennedy was assassinated
• Will ___, one of Robin Hood’s Merry Men
• The state capital of Alaska
• England’s second highest wicket taker in Test cricket
• English photographer, former husband of actress Catherine Deneuve and model Marie Helvin
• BBC Two sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan
• Former West Indies batsman whose cricketing records include the highest individual score in first-class cricket: 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham
• Soft creamy French cheese with a whitish rind
• The third book of the Old Testament
• The first president of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Revolution

Down Clues

• Post traditionally rewarded with “a butt of sack”
• Lead guitarist of the band Travis
• 1960 film starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse and Robert Ivers
• Avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ounces
• Salad plant whose varieties include TomThumb and Lollo Rosso
• The first track and field athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympics
• Official language of Israel
• The largest lake in England
• Hampshire village in the New Forest on the outskirts of New Milton with cricket and football clubs
• A Siberian breed of dog of the spitz type
• American bandleader whose band premiered Rhapsody in Blue with George Gershwin on piano
• American swing and bebop trumpeter who was a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz
• The King of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828
• 2008 film featuring a Marvel Comics character of the same name, starring Robert Downey Jr
• American dancer, actor, choreographer and singer whose films include The Cotton Club and Running Scared
• Father of Hermia in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Olympic swimmer who first starred as Tarzan in 1933
• Canadian jazz pianist and singer who married Elvis Costello in 2003
• US inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp and the microphone
• See 19
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for In the Heat of the Night
• Royal correspondent for BBC News from 1989 to 2003
• Pakistani-born British actor whose TV roles include Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the Crown
• Actor who played the title role in TV series Lou Grant
• English comedian, writer, presenter and actor who was formerly a psychiatric nurse
• Silvery-white metallic chemical element with the atomic number 92
• A system of exercise named after its German inventor whose father was a gymnast from Greece
• The brightest star in the constellation Aquila
• See 25