Jumbo General January 08, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17, 42 and 54 Across? Connection from #653 Cyd Charisse, Alain Resnais and Mollie Sugden were born in 1922

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Crossword GK Jumbo 654 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 08, 2022

Across Clues

• Member of a prehistoric people who inhabited the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico
• Tom Waits studio album considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years
• A smoke-dried jalapeño chilli pepper used for seasoning
• Radio and TV series that has featured Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens and Phil Cornwell
• James Bond film in which Honor Blackman plays Pussy Galore
• Author best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
• Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Antananarivo
• 2014 Christopher Nolan film starring Matthew McConaughey
• American director whose films include Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man
• ___ Slagg, fictional columnist in the magazine Private Eye
• American rock band whose hits singles include Buddy Holly and Beverly Hills
• ITV Sport’s chief presenter for football coverage from 2010 to 2015
• Lead guitarist and singer of the band Stereophonics
• Barbadian-born cricketer who made his international debut for England in 2019
• See 30
• Former British coin worth two shillings in pre-decimal money
• See 27
• American TV drama series loosely based on a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay
• English golfer who the 2013 US Open
• Colour of dyed woollen cloth associated with Robin Hood and his merry men
• Home of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1975
• A cylindrical mass of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave
• Very large herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and long tail
• Genus of brush-footed butterflies found in South America
• Carry On actor and comedian who made his name as Tony Hancock’s co-star in Hancock’s Half Hour
• 1956 film, based on a novel by Edna Ferber, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean

Down Clues

• Residential community in the hills of the Westside of Los Angeles, California
• Madrid-born actress who plays Lyra Belacqua in the TV series His Dark Materials
• The state capital of Idaho
• Another name for the pangolin
• British racing driver who is a former co-presenter of Top Gear
• In Greek mythology, the horn of Amalthea, the goat that suckled Zeus
• Queen of England, July 9-19, 1553
• See 5
• The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
• Blacklisted American actress who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Felicia Karpf in Shampoo
• Soap opera created by Phil Redmond that began on the launch night of Channel 4 in 1982 and ran for 21 years
• See 48
• The capital of the Republic of the Congo
• Suburban area in Surrey that forms a borough with Epsom
• The upper chamber of the heart
• Nontechnical name for otalgia
• Hill to the east of Jerusalem at whose foot is the Garden of Gethsemane
• American singer and guitarist who has won Grammies for This Masquerade, On Broadway and Give Me the Night
• A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra
• The seventh planet from the sun
• Chaser on the ITV game show The Chase who appeared in the 14th series of Celebrity MasterChef in 2019
• 1969 studio album by the Rolling Stones
• Inflammation whose forms include housemaid’s knee and student’s elbow
• Director of the films The Danish Girl and Cats
• American rock band whose lead singer was Kurt Cobain
• British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and Stomp
• Manchester City’s all-time top goalscorer
• Title shared by 1970s hit singles by Boney M and Darts, both of which peaked at number 6 in the UK charts