Jumbo General December 26, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 38 and 51 Across? Connection from #600 Christmas, Michaelmas and Lady Day are English quarter days

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Crossword GK Jumbo 601 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 26, 2020

Across Clues

• English film director and screenwriter whose This is England won a BAFTA for Best British Film
• Grammy Award-winning English singer and musician whose 1998 debut album iMegaphone is an anagram of her name
• 1985 single by Prince that reached number two in the US
• J D ___, American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye
• Old name for a medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purge
• Canned Heat’s biggest UK hit, reaching number 2 in the chart in January 1970
• In Greek mythology, the ship on which Jason sailed to retrieve the Golden Fleece
• John ___, Conservative Party benefactor who bought the collapsed Triumph brand in 1983
• Tsar from 1598 to 1605, the end of whose reign saw Russia descend into the Time of Troubles
• The cruciferous plant Capsella bursa-pastoris that has small white flowers and flattened triangular seed pods
• 1991 film in which Christian Slater plays Lucky Luciano
• 1971 single and album by Don McLean
• Actress in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins who married actor Kevin Kline in 1989
• The capital of Moldova
• English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer considered a “father of the computer”
• A lizard of the genus Luperosaurus
• A psychological operation used in warfare
• An ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea, in what is now the SW part of Jordan
• English actress, singer and musical comedy performer for whom Noël Coward developed his first musical revue in 1923
• First name shared by the film director Fassbinder and the poet Rilke
• An otherworldly realm in Irish mythology best known from the story of Oisín
• French painter noted for his Parisian street scenes
• The final battle between the forces of good and evil at the end of the world (Revelation, 16:16)
• Capitol-born chaperone assigned to oversee District 12’s tributes in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Down Clues

• The second largest satellite of Saturn
• USS ___, minesweeper used by the US Navy during World War II originally ordered as HMS Brutus for the Royal Navy
• Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries
• Name of father and son Flemish painters, known the Elder and the Younger
• English county whose administrative centre is Dorchester
• November 1967 Beatles single that topped the charts in the United States, the UK, France and Norway
• 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a systems analyst
• See 26
• A card game similar to whist, usually played for stakes
• A spacecraft or satellite designed to go around a planet or other body without landing on it
• Administrative centre of Shropshire, on the River Severn
• Market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun in West Sussex
• A one-masted sailing boat with a mainsail and jib rigged fore and aft
• Place in the Indian state of Kerala famous for the ancient Sri Krishnaswamy temple, one of the 26 most important Mahavishnu shrines
• Claes ___, Swedish sculptor best known for his public art installations featuring very large replicas of everyday objects
• 1993 American film starring Richard Gere, based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre
• American dance music artist whose hit singles include Free and Found A Cure
• 1981 UK number one single for Adam and the Ants
• Substance, also called colophony or Greek pitch, applied to the bows of bowed stringed instruments
• Parlour game played by writing the words on paper before folding and passing to the next player
• One of the northern termini of the Northern Line of the London Underground
• The capital of Louisiana
• Pen name of Belgian comics writer and artist Georges Prosper Remi
• Unit of magnetomotive force equivalent to 1.257 gilberts
• 1942 Walt Disney film about a deer
• Former title of the pagan high priest at Rome
• Another name for borax
• Biblical place in the wilderness of Judah, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, whose vineyards were celebrated in Solomon’s time
• The administrative centre of Devon
• A traditional Japanese case for holding small objects
• An atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons
• Vegetable of the onion family that is the national emblem of Wales