Jumbo General December 11, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 34 and 60 Across? Connection from #650 Louis van Gaal, James Joyce and Patrick Ewing share Aloysius as a first name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 651 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 11, 2021

Across Clues

• Singer and actor associated with songs such as My Way and New York, New York
• Corporation founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975
• Four Seasons single which reached No 4 in 1965
• Traditional Scottish folk song sung at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve
• Actress who married actor Kevin Kline in 1989
• Phaseolus vulgaris, the variety of bean used for baked beans
• Egyptian goddess, wife and sister of Osiris
• Dialect word for an ant, used in Cornwall for a tourist or holiday-maker
• American singer who had a hit with Tell It Like It Is in 1966
• Norwegian composer whose works include the incidental music for Peer Gynt
• American actress whose films include Fatal Attraction, Raise the Titanic and Patriot Games
• Vice President of the United States who resigned in 1973
• American clarinettist and bandleader best known for his 1938 recording of Cole Porter’s Begin the Beguine
• 1984 number one single by Lionel Richie
• The second largest city in Sri Lanka after Colombo
• Hollywood actress born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna in 1913
• Surname of the title character in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Argentine footballer who joined Barcelona from Manchester City in 2021
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• A fictional hallucinogenic drug in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World
• An atom or group of atoms containing at least one unpaired electron and existing for a brief period of time before reacting to produce a stable molecule
• Finnish winner of the 1982 Formula One World Championship
• Scottish actor who was the Tenth Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who
• English filmmaker whose works include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita
• US state whose capital is Nashville
• American film actor and entertainer born Joseph Yule, Jr. in 1920

Down Clues

• Trousers extending to the knee or just below, worn for riding, mountaineering etc
• Latin phrase which means ‘actually existing’
• 1995 novel by Robert Harris about a young mathematician stationed in Bletchley Park
• American pianist and bandleader whose theme song was Artistry in Rhythm
• The New Zealand parrot Nestor meridionalis
• American aviation pioneer and author who in 1932 was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
• Plant also called green onion, spring onion and salad onion
• The larva of the pyralid moth Pyrausta nubilalis, which is a serious pest of maize
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• English film director and screenwriter whose This is England won a BAFTA for Best British Film
• John ___, 19th-century physicist who gave his name to an effect of light scattering by particles in a colloid or particles in a fine suspension
• A small nonrigid airship, especially one used for observation or as a barrage balloon
• Mild analgesic drug known as acetaminophen in the US
• Country whose motto is Plus Ultra
• One of the two capitals of Eswatini, along with Lobamba
• Japanese camera, printer and photocopier company founded in 1936
• English blonde bombshell actress and singer whose real surname was Fluck
• King of England known as Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots
• Department of France whose capital is Lyons
• Stage name of Jiles Perry Richardson Jr, whose best-known compositions include Chantilly Lace and White Lightning
• Small shrub in the family Labiatae with a strong mintlike odour
• French left-back who joined Everton from Barcelona in 2018
• Eponymous hero of a picaresque novel by Saul Bellow published in 1953
• Payments of a percentage of revenue made to an author, composer, inventor etc
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• Sponsors of rugby union’s English Premiership from 2005 to 2010
• Pre-1926 brand name of German cars built by the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft
• Flowering shrub that gives its name to the 13th hole at the Augusta National Golf Club
• The hard white substance that covers the crown of each tooth
• A subatomic particle with a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton
• Small island in the Inner Hebrides on which St Columba founded a monastery in 563
• 1986 musical that starred Cliff Richard and, later, David Cassidy in its West End run