Jumbo General July 24, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 24 and 52 Across? Connection from #630 Eagle, bogey and albatross are scores for a hole in golf

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Crossword GK Jumbo 631 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 24, 2021

Across Clues

• Co-host of Good Morning Britain for TV-am from 1983 to 1989
• English actress who played Estella in David Lean’s Great Expectations and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet
• See 19
• 2009 film, starring Colin Firth, based on a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood
• French musician and composer whose albums include Oxygène and Équinoxe
• 1960 novel by former professional rugby league footballer David Storey
• City in Siberia that was formerly an important gold-mining area
• The ancient Greek goddess of retribution
• In music, an instruction to string players to use the wood of the bow
• English actress whose films include The Damned and The Night Porter
• City on the southern Seward Peninsula coast that was once the most populous in Alaska
• Australian writer whose books include Tell Me I’m Here and Resilience
• Award-winning debut novel by Irish playwright Derek Landy, published in 2007, about an undead sorcerer and detective
• Council area and historical county of Scotland, bordering on the North Sea between the Firths of Tay and Forth
• Italian patriot and leader of the Risorgimento who conquered Sicily and Naples for the emerging kingdom of Italy in 1860
• See 30
• The bear family
• Large feline mammal with a tawny yellow coat with black stripes
• The capital of Switzerland
• Russian athlete who won silver medals in both the long jump and triple jump at the 2008 Olympics
• The only tennis player to have won each of the four Grand Slam singles titles at least four times
• International auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language
• 1967 film starring James Coburn and Lee J Cobb that was the last film to be made in CinemaScope
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1992

Down Clues

• Wading bird of the genus Gallinago or related genera
• American rock band fronted by Eddie Vedder
• Finnish racing driver who won the 2007 Formula One World Drivers’ Championship and competed in the World Rally Championship from 2009 to 2011
• The ___ ___, 1971 film starring Charlton Heston, based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• The god of crafts, mischief, water, intelligence and creation in Sumerian mythology
• The brightest star in the constellation Lyra
• In geology, an outcrop of older rock surrounded by younger
• Anthony ___, winner of the Best Director Oscar for The English Patient
• Italian author of The Name of the Rose
• 1935 film, starring Dolores del Río and Pat O’Brien, with musical numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley
• Song that gave Engelbert Humperdinck a 1967 number one hit
• A darkened chamber in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
• 1963 hit single by Heinz, his first after leaving The Tornados
• Hampshire river whose mouth is at Southampton Water
• The fragrant cinnamon-like inner bark of a West Indian tree used as a spice and in medicine
• The hardy widely-cultivated annual grass Secale cereale
• Poet who wrote Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, on which the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats is based
• Song by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen sung by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the film Road to Utopia
• State on the W coast of India that was a Portuguese overseas territory from 1510 until annexed by India in 1961
• 1985 novel by Jilly Cooper about a group of show jumping stars
• The technical name for a nosebleed
• Kent port whose ferry link to Boulogne ceased in 2000
• Irish political party founded by Éamon de Valera in 1926
• Tidal strait in New York City separating Long Island from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx
• The Battle of ___, duet sung by Robert Plant and Sandy Denny on Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album
• The birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher
• Chelonian reptile with a flattened shell and flipper-like limbs adapted for swimming
• Monetary unit of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan worth one hundredth of a rupee
• A very dry sherry
• Small island in the Inner Hebrides on which St Columba founded a monastery in 563