Jumbo General August 20, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 19, 33 and 56 Across? Connection from #685 Pampas, Magnolia and Camellia are holes at Augusta

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Crossword GK Jumbo 686 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 20, 2022

Across Clues

• Evelyn Waugh’s sixth novel, published in 1942
• The yellow-and-black Eurasian finch Carduelis spinus
• Another name for the giant armadillo
• Disease mainly of children, caused by a deficiency of vitamin D
• See 52
• The state capital of Alaska
• Constellation containing the first magnitude stars Betelgeuse and Rigel
• The goddess of peace in Greek mythology
• English actress whose roles include Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Hotel du Lac and Babs Milligan in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972 film Frenzy
• Singer whose hits included The Twist and Let’s Twist Again
• Mickey ___, author of crime novels featuring detective Mike Hammer
• American TV series that featured Ed Asner as a newspaper editor
• Pig in George Orwell’s Animal Farm based on Joseph Stalin
• 17th-century card game that was the first in which a trump suit was established by bidding
• Author of The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner
• 1949 film based on the novel Washington Square by Henry James and starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift
• The state capital of Pennsylvania
• Commander of HMS Rattlesnake on a four year exploratory expedition to New Guinea, 1846–1850
• Tropical Asian anacardiaceous evergreen tree cultivated for its juicy fruit
• Former member of Roxy Music much sought-after as a producer
• The killing of a king
• Jill ___, actress who played Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the TV series The Gentle Touch and C.A.T.S. Eyes
• 1926 volume of stories by A A Milne
• City called Eboracum by the Romans
• Family of Italian violin makers active in Cremona in the 16th and 17th centuries
• The first ever gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event
• See 18
• Character in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona who assists Silvia’s escape from Milan
• U2’s guitarist
• Small fleshy flap of tissue that hangs in the back of the throat
• The capital of Eritrea
• The author of The Water-Babies

Down Clues

• The male romantic lead in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
• A tenth part of produce, income or profits, contributed for the support of the church or clergy
• South American country whose capital is Montevideo
• Richard ___, English actor and entertainer who partnered Arthur Askey in the radio show Band Waggon and Kenneth Horne in Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh
• Character played by Ron Howard in the TV series Happy Days
• The son of Banquo in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth
• The state capital of Texas
• The legal capital of Bolivia
• Actor whose film roles include Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park
• Tropical plant of the genus Cassia with yellow flowers and long pods
• Any of various aromatic substances burnt for their fragrant odour, especially in religious ceremonies
• West Sussex seaside resort town at which Sir Billy Butlin opened a holiday camp in 1960
• The part of a computer that performs logical and arithmetical operations, also called the CPU
• International yachting regatta that was for many years the unofficial world championship of offshore racing
• David Bowie song that gave Mott the Hoople a top ten hit in 1972
• Month whose birthstone is the peridot or sardonyx
• Karst-landscape region in northwest County Clare, in the Republic of Ireland
• Coventry ___, English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House
• Kate ___, folk singer and songwriter whose albums include Awkward Annie and Sweet Bells
• The second smallest state in Malaysia after Perlis
• African country whose capital is Accra
• Arabian camel with a single hump and long slender legs
• Island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia used as a US military supply base in World War II
• French composer whose film scores include Passport To Pimlico and The Lavender Hill Mob
• England batsman who made his Test debut in 2004 against the West Indies
• Star that has the traditional name Deneb Algenubi
• A man’s soft felt hat with a dented crown and a stiff upturned brim, as worn by Tony Hancock
• Ray ___, actor who played Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s film Goodfellas
• The slow-moving Australian arboreal marsupial Phascolarctus cinereus
• See 42
• One of a pair of short-handled oars, both of which are pulled by one oarsman