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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 23 and 39 Across? Connection from #667 Oliver Reed, Tom Hardy and Robert Newton have played Bill Sikes

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Crossword GK Jumbo 668 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 16, 2022

Across Clues

• In mathematics, (of a number or quantity) not expressible as a ratio of two integers
• Member of the “Rat Pack” who was John F Kennedy’s brother-in-law
• In France, the head of a police force
• 1959 Walt Disney film based on the fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault
• 2005 top ten hit single by Coldplay
• 1881 children’s story by Johanna Spyri
• Character in Jane Austen’s novel Sanditon, née Miss Brereton, formerly Mrs Hollis
• Market town that is the administrative centre of Cornwall
• See 42
• American actor, dancer, singer and choreographer born Frederick Austerlitz in 1899
• The only tennis player to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard
• Region in western Netherlands, sometimes used to refer to the whole of the country
• In Greek mythology, the fluid said to flow in the veins of the gods
• The legendary sword of King Arthur
• Theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, dedicated to international culture and technological innovation
• Bird also called a green plover or pewit
• American tennis player who won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her career, including eight singles titles at Wimbledon
• American actress and singer born Frances Ethel Gumm in 1922
• French flamenco, salsa, and pop group originally called Los Reyes
• Informal name for an Academy Award
• ___ anaemia, form of anaemia associated with inadequate absorption of vitamin B12
• Italian city in Emilia-Romagna noted for food such as ham and cheese
• Flowering shrub that gives its name to the 13th hole at the Augusta National Golf Club
• The 8th president of the United States
• In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a standard direction
• Birkenhead-born actor who plays the title roles in the films Eddie the Eagle and Rocketman
• 1990 film starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci

Down Clues

• See 26
• Song written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock for the 1986 film Top Gun that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song
• 1963 instrumental hit single for the Surfaris
• 2000 Guy Ritchie crime film featuring Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro and Vinnie Jones
• English name for the Dutch port Vlissingen
• Daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet
• Island in the West Indies whose capital is Port of Spain
• Island in the Caribbean whose capital is Bridgetown
• (Of sparkling wine) very dry
• Israeli star of the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof
• ___ O’Brien, pen name of Irish novelist and journalist Brian O’Nolan
• Scottish Championship football team nicknamed “The Honest Men”
• Monty ___, Melbourne-born winger who made his debut for the Italy national rugby union team against Wales in 2020
• Children’s TV series whose characters included Bungle, Zippy and George
• Liverpool-based band whose hit singles included I Ran (So Far Away) and Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
• Scorer of England’s last goal at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
• Soft PVC plastic shoes that became a fashion trend in the early 1980s
• South African dancer who joined Strictly Come Dancing in 2015
• South Korea’s third most populous city after Seoul and Busan
• The third-largest city in Denmark
• London’s oldest restaurant, opened in 1798
• The part of a lower-case letter that extends above the body of the letter
• Singer-songwriter whose hit singles include The Show Must Go On, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing and When I Need You
• Hungarian prime minister executed when Soviet forces suppressed the revolution of 1956
• French horseman and breeder whose father William and son Freddy were leading jockeys and trainers
• An ornamental centrepiece for a dining table, typically used for holding fruit, ice or flowers
• Italian actor and dramatist best known for his 1970 play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
• Denmark-based supermarket chain whose UK operation was bought by Asda in 2010
• A shoe made from a single block of wood
• 1984 top ten hit single for Black Lace
• Mythological Greek hero, son of King Telamon, in Homer’s Iliad