Jumbo General December 18, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 18 and 32 Across? Connection from #651 Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw and Mickey Rooney were Ava Gardner’s husbands

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Crossword GK Jumbo 652 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 18, 2021

Across Clues

• Song by Stevie Wonder, from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life, which he performed with modified lyrics for the Queen at her Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012
• South African dancer who joined Strictly Come Dancing in 2015
• See 19
• English singer-songwriter whose debut single The A Team reached number 3 in the UK chart in 2011
• See 55
• Beyoncé song whose video won Best Music Video at the 63rd Grammy Awards
• Romanian tennis player who was World Number 1 between August 1973 and June 1974
• English rock supergroup formed in 1981 whose original lineup was John Wetton, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes and Steve Howe
• The North American tree Acer rubrum
• Region of France whose principal city is Strasbourg
• Egg-shaped wind instrument with long mouthpiece
• Shrub of the genus Elaeagnus with an olive-like fruit
• 1998 top-five UK hit single by Will Smith
• Mexican dish comprising minced meat mixed with crushed maize and seasonings, wrapped in maize husks and steamed
• Latin legal team meaning ‘with equal speed or progress’
• Sir Henry ___, English actor manager whose real name was John Henry Brodribb
• Philosophical movement in which an individual is seen as a free agent in a deterministic and seemingly meaningless universe
• A small pillar supporting a stair rail or a parapet coping
• A marine blennioid fish of the family Zoarcidae, such as Zoarces viviparus
• The largest municipality in Trøndelag, Norway
• Roman author of five books of Latin verse fables, based chiefly on Aesop
• Russian elective legislative assembly established by Tsar Nicholas II in 1905 that was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917
• The brightest star in the constellation Lyra
• Yorkshire school run by Wackford Squeers in the novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
• Song that gave Marie Osmond a top ten hit in both the US and the UK in 1973
• American lager first produced by Carl Conrad & Co of St. Louis, Missouri in 1876
• A wine which may be sold in the same year in which it was harvested
• Secure area at a motor racing circuit in which the cars are placed after a race
• Spanish tennis player who won the men’s singles title at the US Open in 1975

Down Clues

• Mineral form of mercuric sulphide that is the main commercial source of mercury
• See 47
• The first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
• White crystalline alkaloid used as an analgesic, a sedative and to relieve coughing
• A martial arts instructor
• Name of the high school in which the musical Grease is set
• English actress and model who found fame in a series of TV commercials for Campari in the 1970s
• Italian bicycle racer who won the 1966 Giro d’Italia
• Port in SE Iraq, on the Shatt-al-Arab
• The flesh of the European dogfish when used as food
• The supreme god of the ancient Greeks
• 2004 film starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost that is the first of the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy
• A small boat such as that in Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat
• Lord who founded the company Amstrad in 1968
• City in Louisiana mentioned in the first line of the song Me and Bobby McGee
• Group who had a number one hit with Things Can Only Get Better in 1994
• 1978 film starring Richard Burton as a priest who teaches at a boys’ school
• English writer best known for Cider with Rosie
• Eccentric American tennis player who won the men’s singles at the US Championships in 1950
• See 13
• American writer best known for his children’s series A Series of Unfortunate Events, published under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket
• Common name for the Italian football team also known as I Nerazzurri
• Swedish-born actress best known for her role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita
• American golfer who won the 2007 Masters and the 2015 Open
• The religion of Muslims
• Home ground of Crystal Palace FC
• French name for the Romanian composer, violinist and conductor featured on the Romanian five lei note
• Single by The Cranberries used in the closing credits of the 1996 film Mission: Impossible
• A herbal infusion made from anything other than the leaves of the tea bush
• An invigorating hot steam bath originating in Finland
• The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism
• A small rented farm, especially in Scotland
• Communications code word for the letter P
• See 46