Jumbo General February 12, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16, 32 and 51 Across? Connection from #658 Lucille Ball, Virginia Woolf and Grace Kelly have all been played by Nicole Kidman in films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 659 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 12, 2022

Across Clues

• Scottish singer who was the youngest person in history to have an album in the UK Albums Chart top ten with Ma! (He’s Making Eyes at Me)
• American singer-songwriter best known for the Grammy-winning single Sweet Love
• Port in Brittany that is France’s chief naval station
• The northernmost borough of London
• A type of satirical, usually topical, West Indian ballad
• English actor who had success as a singer with his Soldier Soldier co-star Robson Green
• American singer-songwriter who was a founding member of the Byrds and a trio formed with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash
• 1874 play by Victorien Sardou for which Jacques Offenbach wrote incidental music
• 1741 oratorio by George Frideric Handel that includes the Hallelujah chorus
• Russian author best known for his novel Dr Zhivago
• Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards
• Actor who played Batman in the film Batman & Robin
• Chess piece usually shaped like a horse’s head
• The ancient Greek underworld and the abode of the god of the same name
• The first of the major Hebrew prophets
• Swiss mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation
• See 22
• Nickname of the Star Trek character Leonard McCoy
• Village in Cambridgeshire that gave its name to an English cheese
• The largest country by total area in Africa
• The last man to have completed the triple crown, i.e. winning the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at a Grand Slam tournament
• Mechanical drawing toy invented by André Cassagnes in the late 1950s as L’Ecran Magique
• Genus of freshwater copepods, comprising over 400 species, with a single large eye
• Former lead singer of M People who had a solo hit with Proud in 2000
• 1979 Hal Ashby film that was the last Peter Sellers film to be released while he was alive
• Cow pie-eating character who appeared in The Dandy from its first issue in 1937 to its final issue in 2013

Down Clues

• Lead singer of Blondie
• BBC TV interview programme hosted by John Freeman, and later by Jeremy Isaacs
• A circular temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, used since 609 AD as a Christian church
• Small graceful antelope of which there is a Thomson’s variety
• 1999 Frank Oz film written by and starring Steve Martin
• 1990s BBC medical drama series created by Jed Mercurio, writing under the pseudonym John MacUre
• A peer-to-peer electronic payment system invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008
• The widely cultivated Asian plant Allium sativum, whose bulbs are used in cooking
• A 6th century BC Greek lyric poetess of Lesbos
• Swiss-born French architect and town planner whose real name was Charles Edouard Jeanneret
• See 45
• Plant of the genus Veronica
• 2021 film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Wine with a distinctive vanilla bouquet and flavour, produced around the Ebro river in Spain
• General secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union from 1985 to 1992
• 1968 Tom Jones hit adopted by supporters of Stoke City as their club anthem
• Wise bearded Brownie who is Noddy’s best friend in Enid Blyton’s stories
• Stop-motion children’s TV series that is a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise
• A fine strong silky fabric
• Former ballet dancer who married magician Paul Daniels in 1988
• US-born Greek operatic soprano whose original surname was Kalageropoulos
• Chelsea right-back who made his full England debut in 2020
• Austrian underwater diver, model and actress inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in 2000
• EastEnders character, played by Lucy Benjamin, who married Mark Fowler
• In Irish folklore, a female spirit whose wailing warns of impending death
• American composer whose works include Second Piano Sonata: Concord
• In biology, a cavity or depression, such as any of the spaces in the matrix of bone
• Snowman in a Christmas song written by Walter “Jack” Rollins and Steve Nelson in 1950
• Swiss canton whose capital is Lausanne