Jumbo General September 18, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 28, 38 and 56 Across? Connection from #638 Emma Thompson, Miriam Margolyes and Maggie Smith play Hogwarts teachers in the Harry Potter films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 639 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 18, 2021

Across Clues

• Traditional small cake from the Lorraine region of France, featured in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
• Epic poem in blank verse by John Milton, originally published in 1667 in ten books
• Mild analgesic drug known as acetaminophen in the US
• London station, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, that opened in 1847
• Scottish town and former Royal Burgh in whose abbey Robert The Bruce was the last of seven Scottish kings to be buried
• A hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware, or the clay from which it is made
• In Wales, the bardic institution associated with the eisteddfod
• Ocean that existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia during much of the Mesozoic era
• In Greek mythology, a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
• English right-back who joined Southampton from Tottenham Hotspur in 2020
• The last man to have completed the triple crown, i.e. winning the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at a Grand Slam tournament
• A vessel with two hulls flanking the main hull
• A rail at waist level used in ballet practice
• 1949 George Cukor film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
• Leader, with his brother Hengist, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain
• American Baptist minister and activist assassinated in 1968
• Spongy vascular organ situated near the stomach
• See 30
• The second largest city in Iran
• French department created from parts of Orléanais, Perche and Chartrain in 1790
• Dutch international defender who joined Brighton & Hove Albion from Ajax in 2020
• Actor born Michael Demitri Shalhoub in 1932
• Romanian professional tennis player who was World Number 1 between August 1973 and June 1974
• Keyboardist, singer and songwriter in Keane
• Brand of motor scooter first manufactured in Milan in 1947

Down Clues

• The largest city in Brazil
• 1973 novel by Erica Jong
• Spice Girl nicknamed Sporty Spice
• The undisputed World Chess Champion 1975–85 and FIDE World Chess Champion 1993–99
• The largest city in Saxony-Anhalt, birthplace of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel
• German songs of which Franz Schubert wrote over 600
• Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
• Independent record label founded by Geoff Travis in 1978, which developed from his West London record shop
• In Greek mythology, a river-god who was great-grandfather of the soldiers Crethon and Orsilochus, who were slain by Aeneas during the Trojan War
• Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War
• See 50
• The smallest and coolest kind of star on the main sequence
• Native American people living in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
• British band best known for their 1980 cover version of Tom Hark
• The state capital of Oregon
• British writer whose children’s books include The Railway Children
• A small ensemble of street musicians in Mexico
• Green-skinned banana-like fruit of the plant Musa paradisiaca
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• English rock band, fronted by Robert Smith, formed in Crawley in 1976
• An intricate multicoloured pattern knitted with Shetland wool
• The brightest star in the constellation Virgo
• English rock band whose albums include Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America
• Greek goddess of youth after whom a plant genus is named
• See 12
• An Italian sweet almond-flavoured liqueur
• Frog character in Sesame Street and The Muppet Show
• American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with Frederick Loewe
• US state, nicknamed the Buckeye State
• Artist whose work My Bed was shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize
• Large sea duck of the genus Somateria
• Musical written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni
• Indian actor inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960