Jumbo General October 26, 2019 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 540 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 26, 2019

Across Clues

• North American river that rises in the Rocky Mountains and flows to the Pacific
• Italian painter and architect whose paintings include the Sistine Madonna
• Members of a group of French painters that included Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain
• 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s 1909 play Liliom
• British naval commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• Proverb credited to Desiderius Erasmus’s Adagia of 1500
• Maiden name of the Princess of Wales who died in 1997
• Diurnal bird of prey with a long forked tail and long broad wings
• 1995 James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan
• American author and cartoonist best known for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• American TV series about the survivors of a plane crash
• British prime minister from 2007 to 2010
• Skin disease involving inflammation of the sebaceous glands
• New town in Buckinghamshire founded in 1967
• See 17
• County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Castlebar
• Debut single by the Spice Girls that topped the UK singles charts for seven weeks in 1996
• City in New Jersey mentioned in the title of Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 debut album
• Popular song by Leo Friedman and Beth Slater Whitson published in 1910 and first recorded by The Peerless Quartet
• British novelist whose works include Clayhanger
• An epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction
• Rod ___, American poet, songwriter, composer and singer whose English lyrics for a Jacques Brel song gave Terry Jacks a worldwide hit in 1974 (Seasons in the Sun)
• In Greek mythology, the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth
• American actor best known for his performance as John “Plato” Crawford opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause

Down Clues

• Kurt ___, lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of Nirvana who killed himself in 1994
• House on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borders built for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert Adam
• Wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae considered sacred in ancient Egypt
• R M ___, Scottish author whose book The Coral Island influenced R L Stevenson’s Treasure Island
• Plant whose varieties are pollinated by different insects
• 1664 comedy by Molière
• The Muse of history in Greek mythology
• The placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus following delivery of a baby
• Breakfast cereal developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner
• A 1967 Top Ten hit for the Four Tops
• In Greek legend, the lover of Thisbe
• Village in Staffordshire that is home to a university that was founded in 1949
• Nickname of WWE wrestler Jim Duggan
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ___, German philosopher whose works include The Phenomenology of Mind
• The capital of Saxony
• Pakistan’s largest city
• Kingdom in southern Africa whose capital is Maseru
• The Roman god of doorways, passages and bridges, depicted with two heads facing opposite ways
• A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a set of hardwood plates over tuned metal resonators
• One of the fictional nations in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Mountain in the Bernese Alps, rising to a height of 3970m
• Short opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo first performed in Milan in 1892
• Country whose capital is Wellington
• 1981 novel by James Clavell set in Hong Kong in 1963
• A small marine food fish of the NE Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea
• Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
• City in Sudan at which the Mahdi defeated a British and Egyptian army in 1883
• The administrative capital of South Africa
• 1996 film starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo
• The former Hindu custom whereby a widow burnt herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre
• The largest of the Dodecanese islands
• 1918 play by Bertolt Brecht
• Ivy League university founded in 1701