Jumbo General December 04, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8, 28 and 55 Across? Connection from #649 Victoria, Halifax and Edmonton are also the names of Canadian provincial capitals

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Crossword GK Jumbo 650 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 04, 2021

Across Clues

• Former manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar, Bayern Munich and Manchester United who has had three spells in charge of the Netherlands national team
• American rock band formed in 1969, best known for their association with Neil Young
• Well-known Christmas carol by Adolphe Adam
• One name for the small Eurasian ericaceous shrub Vaccinium myrtillus
• Constructed, paved or inlaid with a mosaic of small tiles
• Spanish footballer of Malian descent who joined Wolverhampton Wanderers from Middlesbrough in 2018
• Scorer of Germany’s winning goal against England in the final match at the old Wembley stadium
• Genus of mammals that includes ferrets, stoats and weasels
• American rock band formed in 1981 whose founding members include guitarist Thurston Moore
• Author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
• Joint formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus
• American director whose films include The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch
• The “great Lion” of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• English actor who starred in the sitcoms Doctor in the House and Mind Your Language
• Johanna ___, Swiss author best known for her children’s story Heidi
• The Arabian gazelle Gazella arabica
• Italian football club nicknamed Zebrette (“The Little Zebras”)
• Second largest of the Isles of Scilly
• In Greek mythology, a daughter of Poseidon who was loved by Apollo and bore Eleuther
• Short-legged, long-bodied dog with long wiry hair and erect ears
• A former name for depression
• Play by George Bernard Shaw about an officer of The Salvation Army
• A lottery in which the stakes of the participants constitute the prize
• British children’s TV series set in the fictional Welsh rural village of Pontypandy
• Jamaican-born basketball player whose number 33 was retired by the New York Knicks in 2003

Down Clues

• English author of the Shopaholic series of novels
• Alternative name for the painting Pierrot by Jean-Antoine Watteau in the Louvre
• Series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I
• A tropical American orchid with purplish-pink or white showy flowers
• The ___, nickname of Bradford City AFC
• The cgs unit of force
• Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1976
• American rapper born Robert Matthew Van Winkle
• A fine plain weave textile used for clothing
• Greater London borough formerly important for its airport
• Adjective meaning sisterly
• The northernmost town on the British mainland
• French singer, guitarist and actor who had a 1970 top ten hit with a cover version of Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
• The letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Ancient Greek city in the north-eastern Peloponnese on the plain of Argos
• Colourless pungent highly soluble gas whose formula is NH3
• Mountain system extending over 2000 km from the Arctic Ocean towards the Aral Sea
• Margo’s husband in the classic 1970s sitcom The Good Life
• English novelist who wrote early works as Boz
• See 34
• American singer nicknamed the “Empress of the Blues”
• Czech author whose 1920 play R.U.R. introduced the word ‘robot’
• SUV launched in 1970 by British Leyland
• 1960s CBS children’s drama series based in East Africa, featuring a cross-eyed lion called Clarence
• Band from Liverpool best known for their 1990 top ten hit All Together Now
• Thick dark liquid mixture prepared from coal tar, used as a preservative for wood
• Horse that won the 1990 Grand National
• 2001 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with music by Yann Tiersen
• The capital of Canada
• Hymenopterous insect of the family Vespidae
• The first full-length play written by Bertolt Brecht