Jumbo General March 12, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 19, 30 and 38 Across? Connection from #662 Harold Lloyd, Louis B Mayer and Shirley Temple received honorary Oscars

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Crossword GK Jumbo 663 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 12, 2022

Across Clues

• Port located in southwestern Jordan
• English city on the River Witham
• Small bone of the wrist near the base of the thumb
• Debut studio album by Blue featuring a hit single of the same name
• Dr Seuss character, played on screen by Jim Carrey in a 2000 film
• See 36
• English group who released the albums The Age of the Understatement and Everything You’ve Come to Expect
• Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumage
• Tree of the genus Diospyros with hard dark wood
• English punk rock band fronted by Poly Styrene
• Comic book alter ego of Bruce Wayne
• Italian fashion designer born in Reggio Calabria in 1955
• Beetle regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine
• Type of triangle having two sides of equal length
• Detective created by G K Chesterton
• The first British football team to win a European trophy
• A loose fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds, lizards, etc.
• English actor-manager and Mencap campaigner noted for his Whitehall farces
• Belgian town in West Flanders province that was completely destroyed in World War I
• Style of jazz associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
• 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper subtitled A Narrative of 1757
• Narcotic drug extracted from the unripe seed capsules of a poppy
• Area of the I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! TV set in Australia
• Debut single by the Spice Girls that topped the UK singles charts for seven weeks in 1996
• The first American woman in space
• Glaze, icing, sauce or filling for pastries made from chocolate and cream, named from the French word for “jowl”
• Unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound

Down Clues

• Card game of the rummy family, devised by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939
• The first Kenyan man to set the world record in the marathon, in 2003
• Flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain
• Italian cookery term referring to food being firm when eaten
• 2000 Guy Ritchie crime film featuring Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro and Vinnie Jones
• The god of the sea and of earthquakes in Greek mythology
• Home base of two Boeing VC-25A aircraft with the call sign Air Force One when the US president is on board
• Weapon whose chief designers were Major Reginald V Shepherd and Harold Turpin
• Guitarist of the rock band Toploader who married TV presenters Gail Porter in 2001 and Lynsey Horn in 2008
• Horse that won the Derby in 1980
• A leg of lamb or mutton
• Hillman car model produced between 1932 and 1970
• 1984 Ron Howard film in which Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid
• A bar fixed across the underpart of a wagon or carriage that has rounded ends on which the wheels revolve
• Egyptian village that was the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Axis forces in 1942
• Band from Stockport whose self-titled debut album was one of the twelve albums nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2017
• Stimulating milky beverage made from the dried leaves of the South American tree Ilex paraguariensis
• Tropical American cactus which grows to a height of 13 metres
• 1907 oil painting on canvas by Henri Matisse subtitled Souvenir of Biskra
• Very low brass instrument pitched in F or E-flat
• Town in Cumbria that shares the title of the ‘highest market town in England’ with Buxton, Derbyshire
• Historical county of Northern Ireland in which the Giant’s Causeway is situated
• Former Labour MP for Shipley and Nottingham East who left the party in protest at the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn in 2019
• Composer of Rule Britannia, which appears in his masque Alfred
• American singer, actor and writer whose 1950s hit singles include A Wonderful Time Up There
• A lord of Tyre in Shakespeare’s play Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• A diamond-shaped charge in heraldry
• Another name for the cow parsnip
• A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse’s knee
• Paul ___, German-born British publisher and philanthropist who set up Music for Pleasure records as a joint venture with EMI in 1965
• Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989
• Conservative MP assassinated by the Provisional IRA in 1985
• Friedrich ___, German geologist who developed a hardness scale for minerals
• See 7