Jumbo General January 22, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 52 and 53 Across? Connection from #655 Arthur, Getty and White are surnames of actresses in The Golden Girls

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Crossword GK Jumbo 656 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 22, 2022

Across Clues

• US state mentioned in the John Denver song Take Me Home, Country Roads
• Fine fibrous substance, also known as kapok, used as stuffing for cushions
• Relating to teaching methods designed to support pupils with learning difficulties
• Evergreen shrub with spiny leaves and clusters of yellow flowers
• Fort ___, 1948 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda and John Wayne
• Metrical foot consisting of one long and one short syllable
• Hertfordshire town situated about 5 miles north of St Albans
• The world’s longest river
• French term for passionate appeal or complaint
• Former monetary unit of Argentina, replaced by the peso in 1991
• Dutch football team based in Amsterdam
• Dressing gown usually made of towelling material
• Flock of wild geese or swans in flight, making V-formation
• Small East Asian animal which secretes a strong-smelling substance used in perfumery
• Tailless macaque monkey associated with the Rock of Gibraltar
• Person who has extreme or irrational fear of cats
• Description of pressure exerted by a fluid at equilibrium due to force of gravity
• Order of insects which includes beetles and weevils
• Surname of the detective played by Helen Mirren in the TV series Prime Suspect
• ___ Grillo, Italian comedian who co-founded the Italian Five Star Movement
• A fibrous scleroprotein of connective tissue and bones
• In music, a character that lowers a note a semitone
• Uninhabited British island in the North Atlantic, 220 miles west of the Outer Hebrides
• Former England cricketer who captained Sussex to the 2003, 2006 and 2007 County Championship titles
• Name of Captain Hook’s right-hand man in Peter Pan
• Former name for the Kingdom of Eswatini
• A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse’s knee
• Paul ___, Kenyan runner who held the world best time in the marathon from 2003 to 2007
• Raft used by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 Pacific expedition
• Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
• Surname of the governor of New York credited with introducing tea to the American colonies
• Dish of minced meat under a layer of mashed potato

Down Clues

• German prince entitled to be involved in choosing the Holy Roman Emperor
• Last of a trilogy of western films in the 1960s, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More
• 1976 top ten hit by Stevie Wonder, from the Songs in the Key of Life album
• Migratory diving duck, the male of which is black and white with a green head
• Immature form of insects such as the dragonfly
• Collection of 114 hymns or formulations for the treatment of diseases in Hinduism
• Tessa ___, British javelin thrower who won an Olympic gold medal in 1984
• Youth who drowned in the Hellespont while swimming to reach his beloved Hero
• Bruce ___, American singer best known for his 1962 US number one hit, Hey! Baby
• A hit in May 1965 for both Burt Bacharach and Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
• Daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet
• The ___, title of a 1975 Jospeh Wamburgh novel about the exploits of a group of LA police officers
• Political party set up in 2004, its most famous member being George Galloway
• Maiden of Greek mythology, turned into a spider by Athena
• Surname of the main character in D H Lawrence’s Sons And Lovers
• Greek writer of tragedies which include Antigone and Oedipus The King
• In ancient Greece and Rome, porticos or arcades with benches where people conversed
• Small river in Ayrshire immortalised in Robert Burns’s poem Sweet ___
• Charles ___, Monégasque Formula One racing driver who won the 2019 Belgian and Italian Grands Prix
• Delicate thin-walled blood vessels that form an interconnecting network between the arterioles and the venules
• South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae that has the same name as its edible seed
• English goalkeeper whose clubs have included Crystal Palace, Manchester City and Preston North End
• Unit of luminance named after an 18th century German physicist
• A flower-shaped arrangement of ribbons worn as a badge or presented as a prize
• Genus of North American onagraceous plants named after the US explorer who discovered it
• Blaise ___, French international midfielder who joined Inter Miami from Juventus in 2020
• 1984 song by The Cars famously used as part of the Live Aid concert in 1985
• Salmon in a 1935 story by Henry Williamson