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Matryoshka · 19 October 2011 at 9:21PM

SPOT THE CONNECTION

What connects 14 Across, 27 Across and 51 Across?

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14 across: English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who wrote A Brief History of Time (7, 7)

27 across: Cornish drummer whose surname formed half of the name of a successful band of the 1960s and 1970s (4, 9)

51 across: Actress who made her film debut in The Color Purple, for which she received an Oscar nomination (6, 8)

weeowens · 19 October 2011 at 9:23PM

English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who wrote A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

weeowens · 19 October 2011 at 9:24PM

Actress who made her film debut in The Color Purple, for which she received an Oscar nomination

Whoopi Goldberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg

I'm a bit stuck on the other one :-(

Still googling

Pumpkin_2 · 19 October 2011 at 9:48PM

The answer to the second clue is Mick Fleetwood

weeowens · 19 October 2011 at 9:51PM

All have had roles in Star Trek

http://cable.tmcnet.com/news/2006/jan/1252021.htm
People who have guest-starred in Star Trek (or in its successors) include Joan Collins, Stephanie Beacham, Whoopi Goldberg, Kelsey Grammer, Professor Stephen Hawking, David Soul, Mick Fleetwood and Iggy Pop.

http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-659.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekkie