Jumbo General January 15, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 21 and 34 Across? Connection from #654 J R R Tolkien, Justin Rose and Sid James were born in South Africa

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Crossword GK Jumbo 655 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 15, 2022

Across Clues

• 1981 film starring Dudley Moore remade starring Russell Brand in 2011
• ITV talent show that launched the careers of Lenny Henry and Victoria Wood, among others
• The most northwesterly of the Canary Islands
• 1983 album by Bob Dylan co-produced by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
• Actor who played Detective Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun film series
• The first black footballer to represent England in a full international match
• Russian tennis player who won the 2000 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open
• Jean Paul, US oil executive and art collector who died in 1976
• Shrub with large white or red flowers, the twigs of which yield ladanum
• 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women’s 57kg taekwondo category
• Poor woodcutter in the Arabian Nights entertainments who discovers that the magic words ‘open sesame’ will open the doors of a cave containing the treasure of the Forty Thieves
• King of the Huns who devastated much of the Roman Empire
• Large town in Greater Manchester between the rivers Irk and Medlock
• In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet who was swallowed by a great fish
• TV commentator and presenter who played on eight Ryder Cup teams
• The viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of a bird’s egg, also called albumen
• In France and some other European countries, a duty on various goods brought into certain towns or cities
• A red wine from the Bordeaux district of France
• The plant Nepeta cataria
• Tigran ___, chess grandmaster who was World Champion from 1963 to 1969
• The underground stem of the plant Zingiber officinale
• Rodolphe ___, Swiss chocolate manufacturer who invented the conching machine and other processes to improve the quality of chocolate
• Fruit, also known as sarda in southeast Asia, developed in Israel
• Best actress Oscar-winner for The Rose Tattoo
• Part of the Pacific Ocean encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan
• The tropical American evergreen tree Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds
• In the New Testament, a Jewish Christian of Jerusalem who was struck dead for lying
• British pianist made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1941
• TV spy series from 1967 to 1972, starring Edward Woodward

Down Clues

• Relative of Charles Darwin who devised the first weather map
• Member of The Three Degrees who appeared in the second series of The Real Marigold Hotel
• 6 ft 6 in striker whose goal against Denmark at Euro 2020 made him joint all-time top scorer of the Russia national team
• Austrian city that hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics
• 1930 children’s novel by Arthur Ransome
• See 48
• The title character of Dick King-Smith’s 1983 book The Sheep-Pig
• The passion flower genus of plants
• Hebrew Prophet in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of Ahab
• Greek comic dramatist whose only complete extant comedy is Dyskolos
• See 5
• Warner Bros animated cartoon character called “The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico”
• The first man in space
• Technical name for the shinbone
• Blondie number one single that is the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo
• Second largest of the Isles of Scilly
• 1965 number one single by Tom Jones
• Queen of England, 1558-1603
• Rag’n’Bone Man song that won the Brit Award for British Single of the Year in 2018
• TV talk show named after its host, whose surname is Goddard
• American author of The Snow Goose and The Poseidon Adventure
• Australian actress best known for playing Frieda “Franky” Doyle in Prisoner: Cell Block H
• See 2
• Home video game console released by Sega in November 1998
• See 19
• Former England forward whose clubs included Fulham, Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City
• Diffuse cloud of particles and gases visible either as a hazy patch of light or an irregular dark region
• State of NE India with the heaviest rainfall in the world
• Winning margin in horse racing between a nose and a neck