Jumbo General June 26, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 23, 30 and 45 Across? Connection from #626 Trent, Ross and Kane are first names of current top New Zealand Test cricketers (Boult, Taylor, Williamson)

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Crossword GK Jumbo 627 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 26, 2021

Across Clues

• A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra
• 1969 novel by Philip Roth
• 1973 Sydney Pollack film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford
• US-born British horse trainer who retired in 2002 and gave his Park House stables licence to his son Andrew
• English actress whose films include Titanic, Finding Neverland and The Reader
• Anne ___, English poet and painter eulogised by John Dryden in a 1686 poem
• A data input device with a limited number of keys
• Actor who played the title role in TV series Lou Grant
• Area of London that was the original home of Arsenal FC
• Organic compound that is an ester of a fatty acid
• Horse that won the 1999 Derby
• The plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its seeds that are a key ingredient in hummus
• Mediterranean republic whose capital is Valletta
• 1979 song that gave Kool & the Gang their first UK top ten hit
• The son of Isaac and twin brother of Esau in the Old Testament
• 1986 film starring Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson
• A small flightless South American bird resembling the ostrich
• Mediterranean umbelliferous plant with liquorice-flavoured seeds
• Legal means by which a person can change their name
• Nickname of Vice Admiral Edward Vernon
• The largest Canadian province
• A canton in the northeast of Switzerland, entirely surrounded by the canton of St Gallen
• Former prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1991
• American actress who was the narrator of 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird
• English poet whose verse collections include The Whitsun Weddings
• 1970 hit single by The Carpenters written by Roger Nichols and Paul Williams
• Tuscan city famous its Palio, a traditional medieval horse race

Down Clues

• Violinist, born in Tel Aviv in 1945, who made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963
• Another name for the lapwing, imitative of its call
• The most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990
• The trunk of a tree
• English actress who became Baroness Olivier
• The capital of Samoa
• James ___, midfielder who came through Southampton’s youth system and made his senior England debut in 2017
• Well-known seduction poem by John Donne
• A fulmar or petrel that ejects a foul-smelling oil from its stomach
• Cheshire market town with a high concentration of listed buildings
• 1980s American sitcom starring Paul Reiser, Greg Evigan and Staci Keanan
• Stage name of the Ghanaian-born rapper Kwasi Esono Danquah III
• New Orleans song that gave the Dixie Cups a big hit in 1965
• Songbird also called a titlark
• Personal computer introduced by Commodore in 1985
• South American country whose capital is Santiago
• English model and TV personality stripped of her 2006 Miss Great Britain title after posing nude in Playboy
• Blind Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer whose hits include Light My Fire and Feliz Navidad
• 1993 film that tells the story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed into the Andes in 1972
• Dark brownish-red colour, which takes its name from the French word for chestnut
• 44th Vice President of the United States, 1989–1993
• An “Opera-oratorio after Sophocles” by Igor Stravinsky, first performed in 1927
• Synthetic compound used as an anaesthetic and analgesic and also illicitly as a recreational drug
• 1983 Christmas number one single by the Flying Pickets
• Title shared by albums by The Emotions, Katherine Jenkins and Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
• 1983 UK number one single by KC and the Sunshine Band
• The capital of Australia’s Northern Territory
• A member of the aboriginal people of Japan
• A stroke on the green in golf