Jumbo General August 07, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16, 21 and 37 Across? Connection from #632 Emmeline Pankhurst, Margaret Thatcher and Karen Blixen have been played by Meryl Streep

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Crossword GK Jumbo 633 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 07, 2021

Across Clues

• The lowest temperature theoretically attainable
• English filmmaker whose works include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita
• Oscar-winning film directed by and starring Ben Affleck
• Tough elastic tissue composing most of the embryonic skeleton of vertebrates
• The first book of the Old Testament
• Cycle race first organised in 1909 to increase sales of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport
• American primatologist and conservationist who wrote the book Gorillas in the Mist
• African country whose capital is Windhoek
• Pop group whose debut album, Hopes and Fears, won the 2005 Brit Award for Best British Album
• Style of jazz associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
• Swedish pop group who had a 1993 number one hit with All That She Wants
• American TV presenter who has hosted American Idol since 2002
• Another name for Calvary
• An assembly of guests in a fashionable household from the 17th to the early 20th centuries
• The principal town on the Isle of Bute
• 1818 novel by Mary Shelley
• English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985
• Rudolph Bloom’s dog in James Joyce’s Ulysses, named after one of the Three Musketeers
• 2000 Bruce Paltrow film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti and Huey Lewis
• Motto of the Prince of Wales
• 1980s BBC sitcom starring George Cole as Reg Dudgeon
• The guitarist of rock band the Police
• Mexican food item whose name literally means ‘young donkey’
• American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and film director best known for fronting the band Limp Bizkit
• A party for young people, with electronic dance music, sometimes held in a field or disused building
• Early form of bicycle, originally one propelled by the feet on the ground
• German idealist philosopher whose works include a Critique of Pure Reason

Down Clues

• A powered railway vehicle used for pulling trains
• North American name for courgette
• Riot control substance also called lacrimator
• An edible marine gastropod of the genus Littorina
• David Copperfield’s first wife in the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens
• American actress, comedian and singer whose films include What’s Up, Doc?, Young Frankenstein and Paper Moon
• The ratio of sine to cosine
• See 5
• Painting by Vincent van Gogh that became the most expensive painting ever sold in 1987
• 2005 musical featuring the story and music of The Four Seasons
• African country formerly called Upper Volta
• American actress and singer whose films include The Truman Show, Mystic River and Sully
• The nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built in a high inaccessible place
• 1856 painting by French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris
• See 51
• A military display or pageant, usually at night
• Ad hoc band that created the song Vindaloo as an unofficial England anthem for the 1998 FIFA World Cup
• The first Muppet other than Kermit to feature as the main protagonist in a Muppet film
• Punjab-born actor whose British TV series include The Jewel in the Crown, Tandoori Nights and Coronation Street
• Berlin-born pianist, composer and conductor whose wives included Betty Bennett, Dory Langan and Mia Farrow
• Stage name of Chris Millar as drummer of the Damned
• Sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter as landlord Rupert Rigsby
• Belgian bicycle racer whose eleven Grand Tour wins include the “17 Across” five times
• Daughter of Grant and Tiffany Mitchell born in 1997 in EastEnders
• Autonomous region of Spain on the Bay of Biscay whose capital is Santiago de Compostela
• Novel by Toni Morrison that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988
• Russian-born American novelist, playwright and screenwriter born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
• Black grape used in winemaking whose name literally means “young blackbird”
• American actor best known for playing “Ponch” in the TV series CHiPs