Jumbo General September 04, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 23 and 42 Across? Connection from #636 The fathers of Jonny Bairstow, Alec Stewart and Stuart Broad also played cricket for England

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Crossword 637 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2021

Across Clues

• People who sacked Rome in 410 under Alaric
• 1967 hit single by Van Morrison
• City in Fife whose ruined palace was a former residence of Scottish kings
• 1980 Martin Scorsese biopic about boxer Jake LaMotta
• Supergroup formed by Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr
• Jewellery item containing a seal
• British house music band whose hit singles include One Night in Heaven and Moving On Up
• Scottish Borders town at the confluence of the Slitrig Water with the River Teviot
• American actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for Ben-Hur
• First century BC Greek author of fables in which animals are given human characters and used to satirise human failings
• 1982 single by Elton John which reached number eight
• The capital of Ghana
• American actor and comedian whose films include Elf and Anchorman
• Chicago’s primary airport
• Queen Consort of William IV after whom an Australian city was named
• Disruption of normal propulsive gastrointestinal motor activity due to non-mechanical causes
• Another name for marjoram
• A fighting axe used by Native Americans
• Large town in Greater Manchester between the rivers Irk and Medlock
• Horse that won the 2000 Guineas and the Derby in 1968
• 2005 film starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette as sisters whose grandmother is played by Shirley Maclaine
• Large round starchy fruit of a tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to the Pacific Islands
• French midfielder who joined Chelsea from Leicester City in 2016
• Darren Aronofsky film for which Mickey Rourke won a BAFTA
• Dutch actress who played the central role in several of the Emmanuelle films
• José ___, Spanish dramatist awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature

Down Clues

• 1941 novel by James M Cain made into an Oscar-winning 1945 film of the same name starring Joan Crawford
• American singer whose top 10 hits include Walk On By in 1964 and Heartbreaker in 1982
• American country music singer-songwriter whose autobiography, Coal Miner’s Daughter, was made into an Oscar-winning film
• 1975 film starring Warren Beatty as a successful Beverly Hills hairdresser
• Snooker ball worth three points
• The second-largest city in Norway
• The capital of Switzerland
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• English singer/songwriter whose debut single Dreams topped the UK Singles Chart in 1993
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• Slough-born actress, comedienne and singer whose TV show premiered The Simpsons
• Scottish rock band whose hit singles include Don’t You (Forget About Me) and Alive and Kicking
• A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra
• 1995 film reworking of Jane Austen’s Emma starring Alicia Silverstone
• In classical legend, a serpent that could kill by its breath or glance
• An ointment for wounds, sores, etc
• Rail at waist level used in ballet practice
• White crystalline compound, made by purifying argol, used in baking
• Country whose capital is Port-au-Prince
• Brightest star in the constellation Aquila
• Best Actress Oscar-winner for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs
• Sergei ___, Russian ballet impresario who founded and directed the Ballet Russe in Paris
• The first single from R.E.M.’s 1991 album Out of Time
• General Certificate of Education exams replaced in 1988 by GCSEs
• Lord ___ , major character in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy
• Former Arsenal midfielder appointed head coach of Crystal Palace in 2021
• Stephen ___, Scottish snooker player who is a seven-time World Champion
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• Alloy based on iron, containing carbon and small quantities of other elements
• The standard currency unit of Myanmar