Jumbo General July 11, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 29 and 45 Across? Connection from #576 Pontius Pilate, Andy Warhol and Nikola Tesla are David Bowie film roles

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Crossword GK Jumbo 577 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 11, 2020

Across Clues

• Rochdale-born actress, singer and comedienne made a Dame in 1979
• 1992 American action film starring Brandon Lee as Los Angeles art student Jake Lo
• Well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898 by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo di Capua
• Steve Coogan’s best-known comic creation
• Name of five Popes, the fourth of whom, born Francesco della Rovere, is noted for a well-known chapel in the Vatican
• The Roman goddess of flowers
• A robber who enters buildings by climbing through upper windows, skylights, etc
• English singer-songwriter who was half of the duo Soft Cell
• 1999 film starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino, based on an essay by Oliver Sacks
• Irrational fear of cats
• Cuban-American actor and director who played Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III
• American singer and songwriter whose hits include In the Midnight Hour
• The rare New Zealand bird Philesturnus carunculatus
• Charity that developed out of a pioneering alcohol project in South East London founded by Barry Richards in 1964
• English theatre critic and writer who described a critic as “a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car”
• British athlete who won individual silver medals in the 400m at the Olympic Games and World Championships
• In the Star Wars universe, what a Padawan becomes after completing “the trials”
• In astrology, a twelfth division of the celestial sphere
• A married Spanish woman
• Rock and roll pioneer whose hits include Tutti Frutti and Good Golly, Miss Molly
• Name of 13 popes between 401 and 1724
• Nickname of the American Civil War Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson
• A creamy pale pink pate from Greece, made from the roe of grey mullet or smoked cod

Down Clues

• An extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
• Leopardus pardalis, also known as the dwarf leopard
• City in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora formerly called Pitic
• The act or an instance of putting the ball in play in basketball
• A nitrogenous basic compound found in plants, such as morphine, strychnine or quinine
• The capital of Eritrea
• Novel by Henry Miller first published in 1934
• A sequence of DNA to which a repressor or an activator can bind
• River in Sussex whose mouth is at Shoreham-by-Sea
• 1949 film in which Alec Guinness plays eight members of the D’Ascoyne family
• Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of State or the commander of the British Expeditionary Force during much of the First World War
• 1966 hit single by Stevie Wonder subtitled Everything’s Alright
• A swelling of the thyroid gland
• The common European freshwater fish Squalius cephalus
• Daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet
• South African author and anti-apartheid activist best known for Cry, The Beloved Country
• Hoisting device used in a jigger
• Warwick ___, prolific English novelist and short story writer whose best-known novel was Sorrell and Son
• Wil ___, American actor who played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Former MP for Coventry South East expelled by the Labour Party in 1991 because of his support for Militant tendency
• A name of God in the Old Testament
• Billiard game played with coloured and numbered balls
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• American actor whose films include Forrest Gump, Truman and The Green Mile
• Jazz standard first recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917
• Traditional bat-and-ball game on which baseball is based
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• Series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I
• Daughter of Papa played by Estelle Skornik in a series of Renault Clio commercials
• Ancient city whose Latin name is Ilium
• Vegetable of the onion family that is the national emblem of Wales