Jumbo General February 27, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17, 30 and 55 Across? Connection from #609 Independence Day, Little Man Tate and Memphis Belle feature Harry Connick Jr

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Crossword GK Jumbo 610 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 27, 2021

Across Clues

• The Scarlet Pimpernel, in Baroness Orczy’s classic play and novel
• Polish anthropologist whose book Argonauts of the Western Pacific was published in 1922
• Nintendo’s fourth home video game console that was successor to the Nintendo 64 and predecessor of the Wii
• The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
• Sax ___, pen name of English novelist Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, who created the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu
• Devon town in a valley between Peak Hill and Salcombe Hill
• Ancient market town in North Yorkshire, founded by King Peredurus according to legend
• See 43
• In Greek mythology, an enchantress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
• US state whose capital is Augusta
• 1965 Bob Dylan single from the album Bringing It All Back Home
• 1999 Stanley Kubrick film starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
• Administrative centre of Shropshire, on the River Severn
• Headdress worn by the pope consisting of a beehive-shaped diadem surrounded by three coronets
• Irish dish consisting of boiled cabbage and potatoes mashed with butter
• Beatie ___, actress daughter of Sylvia Syms whose TV roles include Prudie Paynter in Poldark
• See 11
• Venue for the 2002 Winter Olympics
• The evergreen tree Taxus cuspidata
• Hal ___, director whose films include Harold and Maude and Being There
• English writer and broadcaster best known for devising and hosting the long-running Radio 4 panel game Quote… Unquote
• In ancient Greece, a festival at which competitors contended for prizes, such as the Olympic Games
• Natalie ___, Australian actress and singer who had a worldwide hit with the single Torn in 1997
• Song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, originally released in 1957 as the B-side to Peggy Sue
• Insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics
• Name by which King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia was commonly known
• American rock band whose albums include Turn on the Bright Lights, Antics and Our Love to Admire
• English city whose university was founded in the 12th century
• 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film based on Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness

Down Clues

• Subject of two theories by Albert Einstein
• 1996 Wes Craven film starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore and David Arquette
• Welsh footballer who was Man of the Match in the 2018 Champions League final
• J M Barrie play subtitled The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
• Allman Brothers Band instrumental that became the theme tune to the TV programme Top Gear
• A metal implement which is heated and used to mark livestock
• Queen of Persia after whom a book in the Bible is named
• American fugitive who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr in 1968
• Roman statesman who, with Cassius, led the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar
• Type of megalithic edifice found in Sardinia
• The fruit of the blackthorn
• Central American republic whose capital is San José
• Football club founded as Dial Square in 1886
• Leonardo ___, Italian mathematician who popularised the decimal system in Europe
• American character actor whose film roles include Sergeant Major Dickerson in Good Morning, Vietnam
• US state whose capital is Boise
• The pupil and later wife of Abelard
• Carnivorous marine gastropod mollusc of the family Buccinidae
• 21 October, celebrated by a ceremony at the statue of Lord Nelson in the Bull Ring in Birmingham and elsewhere
• See 38
• The capital of Gabon
• Thomas Hardy novel subtitled The Life and Death of a Man of Character
• In Greek mythology, the descendants of the Seven against Thebes, who eventually captured and destroyed the city
• Another name for the pomelo
• The fourth highest mountain in Bolivia
• 1952 hit for Guy Mitchell subtitled Pat Him on the Po-Po
• Seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang Province, Eastern China
• Inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
• In cricket, a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat