Jumbo General February 26, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 26 and 47 Across? Connection from #660 Homer, log and bath are Hebrew units of measurement

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Crossword GK Jumbo 661 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 26, 2022

Across Clues

• American actress best known for playing Marion Ravenwood in Indiana Jones films
• British motorcycle racer who was 500cc world champion in 1976 and 1977
• English singer-songwriter whose albums include Sleep is for the Week and FTHC
• British comedian who was lead presenter on Crackerjack from 1980 to 1984
• Leicester City footballer who scored the only goal of the 2021 FA Cup Final
• Character in Tolkien’s The Hobbit from whom Bilbo Baggins took the “Ring”
• A school of Witchcraft and Wizardry in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter stories
• The capital of Kazakhstan
• A 1986 sci-fi film directed by James Cameron
• Failed candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election and 2019 general election made a life peer by his friend Boris Johnson
• John Masefield poem that begins “I must down to the seas again …”
• See 46
• 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers
• The first month of the year in the Jewish calendar
• US state whose capital is Dover
• American rock band, fronted by David Byrne, formed in New York City in 1975
• 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and featuring the song Cheek to Cheek
• Soft drink “made in Scotland from girders,” according to its advertising campaign
• Former coin worth one twentieth of a pound
• American jazz singer and film actress who was the longtime voice of Chiquita Banana in an animated ad campaign beginning in 1947
• American crime novelist who created the detective Mike Hammer
• Founder of the Rolling Stones who died in 1969
• ITV crime drama series starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman
• Dessert consisting of sponge cake and ice cream in a meringue covering
• Low-growing plant of the genus Fragaria with red edible fruit

Down Clues

• 2002 Todd Haynes film starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haysbert
• Affluent residential community in the hills of the Westside of Los Angeles
• Sport invented by James Naismith in 1891
• Gustave ___, French author whose most famous novel is Madame Bovary
• An ancient geographical region south of the Caucasus Mountains, roughly corresponding to present-day Georgia
• 1964 number-one hit single by Mary Wells, written and produced by Smokey Robinson
• The Norse god of thunder
• Member of The Moody Blues and Wings born Brian Frederick Arthur Hines
• Italian operatic tenor who was often called “Caruso Secondo”
• French port that was the scene of the Noyades during the French Revolution
• Deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land
• Persian variety of the wild ass, Equus hemionus
• Stage name of the Dutch exotic dancer Margaretha Geertruida “Grietje” Zelle MacLeod
• See 9
• See 52
• British New Romantic band best known for their 1980 hit Fade to Grey
• Country in central Europe whose capital is Bratislava
• Lance ___, Belgian-Canadian Formula One driver who achieved his first podium finish at the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
• Former county of Wales reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
• Ancient British tribe under Queen Boudicca that rebelled against the Romans in 61AD
• An aromatic resin used as an astringent and to make varnishes and lacquers
• American actor whose films include Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy and Boyhood
• Oscar-winning actress whose children include Kate Hudson
• 1993 American film starring Richard Gere, based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre
• The ancient Greek goddess of retribution
• The main temple of the Buzan sect of Shingon Buddhism whose Main Hall is a National Treasure of Japan
• American science fiction TV drama series created by Tim Kring that ran from 2006 to 2010
• Large village in Surrey close to Chelsea FC’s training ground
• Alan Jay ___, lyricist of the musicals My Fair Lady, Camelot and Brigadoon
• Horse that gave trainer Fred Winter his fourth and final Grand National victory in 1966
• The only African driver to win the Formula One World Championship