Jumbo General August 08, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 34 and 55 Across? Connection from #580 David Jason, Charles Lamb and Bruce Forsyth were born in Edmonton

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Crossword GK Jumbo 581 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 08, 2020

Across Clues

• Star-studded 2006 film based on a 1997 George Plimpton book about Truman Capote
• English novelist and critic whose novels include A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers
• The brightest star in the constellation Lyra
• Actor, singer and comedian who played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen
• A dance in which a person may take another’s partner
• Order of insects that includes bees, wasps, ants and sawflies
• South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in 1967
• Mediterranean plant whose young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in salads
• Ian ___, former keyboard player in the Small Faces, Faces and Billy Bragg’s band The Blokes
• English actor who played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice
• A stock exchange of continental Europe, especially Paris
• 1968 Agatha Christie novel whose title comes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
• Series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I
• Peter Carey novel that won the 1988 Booker Prize
• Science concerned with physical structure of animals and plants
• 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School
• The capital of Kenya
• Hamilton ___, Scottish Premiership, football club formed in 1874 by the Rector and pupils of a local school
• The capital of Malaysia
• J M Barrie play subtitled The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
• American actor who played Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
• 1933 book by e e cummings about a trip to the Soviet Union
• 1938 song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal, from the short-lived Broadway musical Right This Way
• Evil hypnotist in George du Maurier’s 1894 novel Trilby

Down Clues

• Well-known song from the musical The Pajama Game recorded by Doris Day, Harry Connick, Jr, and others
• The Eurasian plant Oxalis acetosella
• A member of the predominant ethnic group of Hungary
• Small, slender, carnivorous mammal closely related to the weasel
• The capital of Denmark
• Technical name for fever
• The capital of Oman
• Tangerine Dream leader Edgar Froese’s fourth solo album, released in 1978
• King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy
• The legislative council of ancient Rome
• Children’s game which originated from the Latin version “Cicero dicit fac hoc”
• British ska band of the 1980s who biggest hit was Too Good to Be Forgotten
• American TV serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, broadcast for four seasons from 2005 to 2009
• A slender silvery European cyprinid fish such as Alburnus lucidus
• An old measure, the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger
• Fruit of the rosaceous tree Prunus armeniaca
• Archie ___, Scottish footballer famous for the wonder goal he scored against the Netherlands in the 1978 FIFA World Cup
• Evening meal or dinner typically eaten between 5 pm and 7 pm
• Any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems and prayers that together constitute a book of the Old Testament
• Another name for the snow leopard
• Regency dandy credited with establishing the modern men’s suit, worn with a necktie, as fashion
• Nickname of the 19th-century boxing champion Jack Dempsey, born John Edward Kelly in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1862
• 1996 Ken Loach film starring Robert Carlyle and Oyanka Cabezas
• NASA Space Shuttle orbiter that broke apart 73 seconds into its flight in January 1986
• German city in Bavaria that was the venue for the trials of Nazi leaders for their war crimes, 1945-46
• Series of US spacecraft that made the first flyby of Jupiter in 1973 and Saturn in 1979
• In Greek mythology, a Centaur killed during a battle with Heracles by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to wound Chiron in the knee
• City in Texas, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
• The seventh planet from the sun
• The sepals of a flower collectively
• Italy’s third largest island