Jumbo General October 02, 2021 Answers
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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 1, 34 and 52 Across? Connection from #640 Ian Smith, Kenneth Wolstenholme and Roald Dahl served in the RAF during World War II
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Crossword GK Jumbo 641 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 02, 2021
Across Clues
- French winger who joined Tottenham Hotspur from Newcastle United in 1997
- Pat ___, jockey who rode the Derby winners Grundy, Golden Fleece and Quest for Fame
- Singer whose single Grace Kelly reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 2007
- Ivan ___, author of the novel Fathers and Sons
- London street best known as the site of the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court
- 1977 top ten hit for The Commodores
- Another name for tungsten
- Musical instrument played by Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson
- Captain in the Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire in Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code
- Small village in Bedfordshire with an abbey and a safari park
- Character in J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit from whom Bilbo Baggins took the Ring
- See 44
- Servant to Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- A prehistoric clapper bridge across the River Barle in the Exmoor National Park
- Marine food fish of the family Clupeidae
- The creator of Star Trek
- Actress seen as Rachel Green in Friends
- Character in 1980s TV series The A-Team played by Dwight Schultz
- French singer known as “the Little Sparrow”
- Port city in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, home of the statue Pania of the Reef
- The first President of the Palestinian National Authority
- Prickly plant of the genus Dipsacus
- The flag carrier airline of Spain, founded in 1927
- The interdependent organisms which share the same habitat
- Actor and director who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Good Will Hunting
- The first book of the Old Testament
- Popular name for Alfred Gilbert’s statue of an winged archer atop the Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus
- Robert Louis Stevenson story originally serialised in the children’s magazine Young Folks as The Sea Cook
- A large merchant ship formerly engaged in trade with Asia
- River on which Peterborough stands
- 2002 film starring Pierce Brosnan and Sophie Vavasseur, loosely based on the story of Desmond Doyle’s fight against the Irish courts
- ___ man is a type of primitive man named after a valley near Düsseldorf in Germany
Down Clues
- Dutch island of the Lesser Antilles whose capital is Oranjestad
- Pokémon that evolves into Jigglypuff
- A spirit flavoured with juniper berries
- Author of On the Beach and A Town Like Alice
- The second largest city in Pakistan
- IBM chess-playing computer that defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
- Brazilian goalkeeper who joined Manchester City from Benfica in 2017
- Cosmonaut who piloted Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961
- Roman poet from Hispania best known for his Epigrams, published in between AD 86 and 103
- The capital of Malaysia
- Apparatus on which Bryony Page won a silver medal in Rio and a bronze medal in Tokyo at the Olympic Games
- Edith ___, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature
- An eagle’s nest built in a high inaccessible place
- City on the Amalfi coast that effectively became Italy’s capital for a short time in 1944
- Verdi opera first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on December 24, 1871
- Great salmon river that forms the border between Scotland and England along part of its route
- Alexander ___, Russian chemist and composer whose music was adapted for the musical Kismet
- Jochen ___, the only driver to posthumously win the Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship
- Another name for the killer whale or blackfish
- Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003
- A musical instrument such as a recorder or flageolet
- Name for Volgograd from 1925 to 1961
- The Latin name for Odysseus
- The largest island of Greece
- Motion of a spinning body in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
- 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg as a singer hiding from the mob
- US novelist best-known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- European coastal plant, Crambe maritima, cultivated for its edible asparagus-like shoots
- An island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d’Antioche strait
- Bootsie and ___, TV series written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, that featured Clive Dunn, Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser
- The third largest city in Japan
- A female deer