Jumbo General May 14, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 26 and 53 Across? Connection from #671 Christian Bale, George Clooney and Michael Keaton have all played Batman

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Crossword GK Jumbo 672 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 14, 2022

Across Clues

• Best Actress Oscar-winner, for Johnny Belinda, who was Ronald Reagan’s first wife
• See 32
• New Zealand tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913
• American patriot officially designated the state hero of Connecticut in 1985
• American actress, comedian and writer who co-wrote and starred in the film Bridesmaids
• The capital of Chile
• Any bone of the wrist
• Dorset coastal town at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck
• UK-based Formula One team which raced from 2012 to 2014 under a Malaysian licence
• See 38
• Luxembourgian racing cyclist who was the first foreigner to win the Tour de France
• Very light wood of the tree Ochroma lagopus
• Comedy partner of Vic Reeves and fishing partner of Paul Whitehouse
• American author who created Tarzan
• A financial institution in which cheques drawn on member banks are cancelled against each other so that only net balances are payable
• American actress who received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Spencer
• British alternative rock band whose 1996 hit singles include On and On and She Said
• Gustav Klimt painting originally exhibited in 1908 under the title Liebespaar
• A 1950 sci-fi novel by Isaac Asimov
• Part of the vertebrate body where the arm joins the trunk
• 1928 R C Sherriff play set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, in 1918
• 1998 single and album by Madonna co-produced by William Orbit
• American actor best known for playing the android Data in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Scottish footballer who played as a forward for both Manchester City (1902–1906) and Manchester United (1906–1915)
• King of Great Britain during whose reign the American colonies were lost

Down Clues

• American actor best known for his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple co-star Jack Lemmon
• Game with lawn, real and table varieties
• Song by George Harrison that was the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK
• See 34
• Stop-motion animated children’s TV series created by Otmar Gutmann in 1990
• River on which Paris stands
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for Elmer Gantry
• Another name for the killer whale or blackfish
• English actor, comedian, writer and musician who played the title role in House from 2004
• District of the London Borough of Islington that was home to the largest women’s prison in Europe until 2016
• Principal constituent of sandstone and other rocks
• Italian painter of the Venetian school whose works include Bacchus and Ariadne
• Record goalscorer for both Manchester United and the England national team
• Exercise system devised by Kenneth H Cooper to increase cardiovascular efficiency
• Welsh county whose administrative centre is Llandrindod Wells
• Kent port with a ferry link to Ostend, Belgium until 2013
• Cabaret music hall that opened in Paris in May 1869
• British tennis player who reached the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time in 2022
• Single by the French band Ottawan that reached number two in the UK in 1980
• The first and only actor to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor
• 1996 album by Beth Orton
• Alternate title of the painting the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
• African country whose capital is Gaborone
• The daughter of King Cymbeline in Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline
• A mixture of wine and soda water
• Verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter
• The second mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
• River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that gave its name to a deadly virus
• Stringed instrument with a body shaped like a sliced pear