Jumbo General February 08, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 37 and 54 Across? Connection from #554 North By Northwest, Notting Hill and Withnail And I are films featuring Grants – Cary, Hugh and Richard E

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Crossword GK Jumbo 555 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 08, 2020

Across Clues

• South African-born actress who won an Oscar for Monster
• Country whose capital is Berlin
• Winners of the first five European Cups in football
• Golfer from “12 Across” who won the 2010 PGA Championship and the 2014 US Open
• American actress and comedienne whose films include Nashville, 9 to 5 and I Heart Huckabees
• 1966 hit single by Stevie Wonder subtitled Everything’s Alright
• Pen name of Charles Lamb
• Stadium that was originally the home of Everton FC, from 1884 to 1891
• A 1972 Number 1 single for T Rex
• Brightest star in the constellation Taurus
• Member of a race of brutish creatures resembling men in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
• The sixth largest city in Ohio
• Film for which Alfonso Cuarón received a Best Director Oscar at the 2014 awards
• Nick ___, singer who found fame in a commercial for Levi’s
• Town in Uganda, on Lake Victoria, at whose airport an elite unit of the Israeli army freed over 100 hostages following a hijacking in 1976
• The capital of Rwanda
• River in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece that rises on the western slope of the Aroania mountain, near the village of Kastria
• The world’s sixth-largest country by total area
• 1976 John Schlesinger film starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name
• Liqueur or cordial flavoured with peach or cherry kernels, bitter almonds, or other fruits
• Indian sitarist father of singer Norah Jones
• German-born actress and singer whose films included The Blue Angel, Blonde Venus and Destry Rides Again
• Widespread flowering plant also known as a marguerite
• Love interest of Jude Fawley in Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure
• Croatian tennis player who won the men’s singles at the 2014 US Open
• See 46
• Eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates
• See 47

Down Clues

• Jean ___, prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003
• 1894 novel by George du Maurier that gave its name to a hat
• Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor whose films include Beat the Devil, Trapeze and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Tammi ___, Motown star whose duets with Marvin Gaye included You’re All I Need to Get By
• The ___ Prince, 1924 operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly
• Large polychaete worm of the genus Aphrodite
• Coconut fibre used in making rope and matting
• 1959 play by Jean Anouilh subtitled l’honneur de Dieu
• A member of the Plantagenet royal line descended from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou
• 2000 film starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson, written and directed by Ben Elton, based on his novel Inconceivable
• Dancer and actress who partnered Fred Astaire in ten films
• 1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett that became the basis for a successful six-part film series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• The letter I in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Body of water linked with the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar
• In the United States, a parade before or during a high school or college homecoming event
• In the Roman Catholic Church, a devotion consisting of prayers or services on nine consecutive days
• ITV franchise holder for the East of England
• Steam clipper wrecked in an 1859 storm which led to the first gale warning service being introduced by the Meteorological Office
• Country whose capital is Sana’a
• Very light wood of the tree Ochroma lagopus
• Actor who played Loggo in the TV series Boys from the Blackstuff
• Industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dar and Cynon
• 1999 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr
• Group of indigenous inhabitants of Chile and Argentina who were the opponents of the colonial Spaniards in the Arauco War
• Former name for Taiwan
• Jacques ___, French philosopher and literary critic regarded as the founder of deconstruction
• A cocktail of rum, Curaçao and lime juice
• A place where bees are kept
• 1958 book by Frederic W Farrar subtitled Little by Little