Jumbo General March 06, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 27 and 61 Across? Connection from #610 Sidmouth, Shrewsbury and Cambridge host folk festivals

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Crossword GK Jumbo 611 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 06, 2021

Across Clues

• Country whose capital is Tashkent
• Birds of the order Strigiformes
• A small bone, especially one of those in the middle ear
• “The face that launch’d a thousand ships” in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
• 1982 Top 10 hit for Kid Creole and the Coconuts
• See 34
• The god of sleep and dreams in Greek mythology
• Italy’s main port, the capital of Liguria
• Character in love with Hermia in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Ancient city in Thrace that was the home of Hero in Greek mythology
• Noble gas whose atomic number is 54
• 1968 Western based on a 1962 novel of the same title by Louis L’Amour
• Trading name for the US company National Railroad Passenger Corporation
• 1946 poem by Dylan Thomas that ends “Time held me green and dying/Though I sang in my chains like the sea”
• Card game designed by Elan Lee and Matthew Inman that exceeded its crowdfunding goal in eight minutes in 2015
• International organisation founded in 1945 after World War II
• German city in North Rhine-Westphalia that is home to the football club Schalke 04
• Plucked musical instrument, usually with a triangular body and three strings, used chiefly for Russian folk music
• Jet ___, Steve Miller Band single that reached number 8 in the US charts in 1977
• The third largest city in Denmark after Copenhagen and Aarhus
• Contraction of the heart, during which blood is pumped into the aorta
• The capital of Belarus
• Poetic name for the south wind
• Congenital deformity also known as congenital talipes equinovarus
• French-language film directed by Michael Haneke awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
• The policy of public frankness and accountability developed in the former Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachov
• In Super Mario Brothers computer games, moving cinder-blocks
• 1955 British comedy film starring Dirk Bogarde
• Partner and comic foil of George Burns
• The legislature of the Isle of Man
• The second son of Adam and Eve
• Name for a large format newspaper

Down Clues

• Name originating among the Igbo people shared by British rugby player ___ Oduoza and Nigerian football player ___ Okafor
• Body of water that drains into the Kattegat via the Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt
• Miles ___, British journalist, musician and broadcaster credited with the invention of Franglais
• Marat ___, Russian tennis player who won the 2000 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open
• Tributary of the High Rhine that is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland
• Moab is my ___, 1997 autobiography by Stephen Fry
• Russian city on the Dnieper River
• Sam Cooke song that gave Craig Douglas his only Number 1 single
• Common name for herbaceous perennial flowering plants of the genus Urtica
• In Greek mythology, the brother of Jocasta who succeeded Oedipus as king of Thebes
• A group or series of nine
• Cell resulting from the union of an ovum and a spermatozoon
• Ransom Eli ___, American motoring pioneer who built his first petrol-powered car in 1896
• Long, thin white mushroom used in Japanese cuisine
• The capital of Kenya
• Canadian city that hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Clear yellowish fluid portion of blood
• Disorder characterised by fear of becoming fat and refusal of food
• Stephen Lowe play that opened at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1977, directed by Richard Eyre
• French city, seat of the papacy during the 14th century
• Town in the Scottish Borders. that is the birthplace of singer-songwriter Eric Bogle
• The physical basis of an individual memory in the brain
• 1998 album by Eric Clapton
• Søren ___, Danish philosopher, theologian and psychologist whose works include Fear and Trembling
• Disinfectant consisting of a mixture of cresols and soft soap
• Swedish prime minister assassinated in 1986
• Family name of the dukes of Ferrara and of Modena
• Southeast Asian country whose capital is Kuala Lumpur
• The state capital of New Mexico
• Tone poem written by Jean Sibelius in 1892
• The total number of living organisms in a given area
• Name given to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India
• An extinct language of ancient S Italy belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family
• The third-largest city in Israel
• The largest extant bovine, also called the Indian bison
• The small northern sandpiper Calidris canutus