Jumbo General February 20, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 32 and 51 Across? Connection from #608 Jerry Hall, Amanda Donohoe and Kathleen Turner played Mrs Robinson in The Graduate on the West End stage

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Crossword GK Jumbo 609 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 20, 2021

Across Clues

• In the United States, July 4
• 2014 Richard Linklater film whose central character is Mason Evans, Jr, played by Ellar Coltrane
• Californian pop duo whose biggest hit was Surf City
• 1971 number one single by Dave and Ansell Collins
• Large number defined by American mathematician Edward Kasner’s nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta as “one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired”
• Guitarist and founder member of the English progressive rock band Camel, formed in 1971
• In the Old Testament, son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright
• Historical TV drama series written and created by Michael Hirst, inspired by the sagas of Ragnar Lothbrok
• Joseph ___, the first published full-length novel by Henry Fielding
• The Kick ___, debut album by Kate Bush, released in 1978
• Character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who is in love with Lysander
• Home ground of AFC Bournemouth, known as the Vitality Stadium for sponsorship purposes
• Mrs ___, narrow-minded person who began life as a minor character in Thomas Morton’s 1798 play Speed the Plough
• IBM chess-playing computer that defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
• 1991 film that marked Jodie Foster’s directorial debut
• Mineral that is 1 on the Mohs hardness scale
• The third sign of the zodiac
• Thoroughfares known as beltways in the United States
• Mel ___, former midfielder who led Manchester City to promotion out of the Second Division in 1988–89 as manager
• Book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper to form eight leaves
• Pablo ___, Spanish painter and sculptor who was a founder of cubism
• In the New Testament, a Jewish Christian of Jerusalem who was struck dead for lying
• See 30
• African country whose capital is Lilongwe
• An alkaloid drug obtained from the leaves and roots of the deadly nightshade
• Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress whose aircrew was the first in the US Eighth Air Force to complete 25 missions in Europe and return to the United States
• 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement
• See 17
• Evelyn Waugh’s sixth novel, published in 1942

Down Clues

• Irish singer-songwriter whose single Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) reached number one in 1988
• The chemical processes that occur within a living organism to maintain life
• The first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815
• 1881 children’s story by Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts
• Country in the SW Pacific whose capital is Port Moresby
• The fourth movement of the Fantasia on British Sea Songs by Sir Henry Wood, which uses the melody of a song by Charles Dibdin
• 1892 farce by Brandon Thomas
• See 43
• Port and resort in France with a regular ferry service to Newhaven
• Buff-coloured cotton cloth originally produced in China
• The collective bacteria and other microorganisms in an ecosystem
• Legendary queen consort of King Arthur who had an affair with Sir Lancelot
• The earliest geological era
• Group whose albums include The Back Room and An End Has a Start
• Johann ___, name of father and son Austrian composers noted for their waltzes
• The large marine mammal Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus
• Until 1959, the ruler of Tibet
• America’s “City of Brotherly Love”
• Protagonist of Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo
• British heavy metal band whose albums include The Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind
• Sir Arthur ___, British author who created Sherlock Holmes
• 1966 thriller that was Roman Polanski’s second film in English
• The drummer of The Police
• The lowest ranking suit in bridge
• With Atropos and Lachesis, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology
• Large triangular jib or foresail, often a feature of racing yachts
• The bird Rhynochetos jubatus, endemic to the dense mountain forests of New Caledonia