Jumbo General May 15, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 16 and 34 Across? Connection from #620 Wakefield Trinity, Fiorentina and New Orleans Saints have a fleur-de-lys on their badge

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Crossword GK Jumbo 621 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 15, 2021

Across Clues

• The capital of Mali
• Adjective famously used by Ronald Reagan to describe Muammar Gaddafi
• Kent town and civil parish on the Kent/Surrey border with two railway stations
• Chronic medical condition involving severe inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract
• Any of the imaginary lines joining the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
• Allan ___, Australian cricket captain from 1985 to 1994
• Lead singer of The Verve from their formation in 1990 until their split in 1999
• Portuguese midfielder who won 66 caps and was at Chelsea from 2004 to 2005
• The most populous and richest region of Italy
• 1984 John Carpenter film for which Jeff Bridges received a Best Actor Oscar nomination
• In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife
• 1996 Penny Marshall film starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston and Courtney B Vance
• City in Kansas of which Wild Bill Hickok was marshal from April to December in 1871
• Any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems and prayers that together constitute a book of the Old Testament
• The third Andalusian football team, after Betis and Sevilla, to compete in La Liga
• 1955 Billy Wilder film starring Marilyn Monroe
• Island in the Channel Islands ruled by a hereditary seigneur or dame
• Former England batsman who made his Test debut in 2004 against the West Indies
• A Provençal savoury paste or dip, made from black olives, capers and anchovies
• Willow tree such as Salix viminalis, whose flexible branches or twigs are used for making baskets
• Russian poet who committed suicide in 1941 after her husband was executed
• A member of an indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia
• A one-wheeled vehicle used in a circus
• German composer whose cycle of music dramas, The Ring of the Nibelung, was first produced at Bayreuth in 1876
• Hong Kong-born actor and martial artist whose films include the Rush Hour series
• Card game on which Edmond Hoyle wrote A Short Treatise in 1742
• Thick, highly incendiary liquid used in firebombs, flame-throwers, etc

Down Clues

• The longest-running TV football programme in the world
• Starchy cereal obtained from the powdered pith of a palm
• Former cricket journalist and commentator whose 1992 autobiography was Basingstoke Boy
• Genus of plants from the nightshade family native to the Americas, whose fruits are commonly called chilli pepper, red or green pepper, or sweet pepper in Britain
• Popular tourist resort at the far eastern end of the southern coast of Cyprus
• Second and fifth word of the mnemonic used to remember the fates of Henry VIII’s six wives
• A famous stout brewed in Cork from 1792
• The pig Sus scrofa
• Central banking system of the United States, created in 1913
• Unit of pressure equivalent to a 100,000 newtons per square metre
• The birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher
• 1974 Michael Winner film starring Charles Bronson
• Area of South America with average rainfall of about 15mm per year
• Red grape variety grown predominantly on the East Coast of the United States
• French actress, singer and fashion model who became the official face of Marianne in 1969
• Cathedral city in North Yorkshire whose racecourse hosted Britain’s first horse race for female jockeys in 1723
• Greek poet to whom the Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed
• According to the USGA Rules of Golf, “a moveable straight indicator, with or without bunting or other material attached, centred in the hole to show its position”
• Material from which the Pantheon, Trajan’s Column and Michelangelo’s David are made
• Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
• Name for a special New Year’s Eve edition of Later… with Jools Holland that has been broadcast every year since 1993
• The smallest state of Australia
• Type of bun with flour on top that originated in Lancashire
• Former administrative region of France comprising the departments of Allier, Puy de Dome, Cantal and Haute Loire
• Latin version of Hail Mary
• The fourth largest city in the Netherlands
• Nickname by which Latin American politician and soldier Ernesto Guevara was known
• Traditional Welsh soup for which recipes date back as far as the 14th Century
• See 5