Jumbo General November 16, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 42 and 52 Across? Connection from #542 Engelbert Humperdinck, Gary Lineker and Sue Townsend were given the Honorary Freedom of Leicester

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Crossword GK Jumbo 543 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 16, 2019

Across Clues

• The 16th president of the United States of America
• Horse that won the 1954 Grand National
• Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Antananarivo
• Actor who played “Ted” Theodore Logan in the film Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Nickname for the Strategic Defense Initiative
• Queens Park Rangers defender abused by Chelsea’s John Terry in a match in 2011, leading to a four-game ban
• Seabird of the family Stercorariidae
• Formula One World Champion in 1952 and 1953
• French-language film directed by Michael Haneke awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
• A device fitted across all the strings of a guitar in order to raise the pitch
• Edible starch extracted from Zamia integrifolia, a small cycad native to North America, banned by the FDA in 1925
• The second-highest ranking suit in bridge
• First name of the character played by Todd Bridges in the US TV series Diff’rent Strokes
• System that is the underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web
• See 20
• A wall-painting using watercolours on wet plaster
• Arthur Miller play in which Wendell Pierce made his West End stage debut in 2019
• Stage name of Derek William Dick, the former lead singer of the band Marillion
• In Greek mythology, a daughter of Tantalus, who continued to weep although turned into stone
• A tumour, usually benign, occurring in glandular tissue
• Singer whose single Grace Kelly reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 2007
• English physician known as ‘The English Hippocrates’
• 1968 novel by Charles Portis, filmed by Henry Hathaway in 1969 and by the Coen brothers in 2010
• Surname of Macaulay Culkin’s character in the Home Alone films
• State capital of Nevada
• Turin-based football team nicknamed La Vecchia Signora (The Old Lady)
• Actress who starred in the film L’Année dernière à Marienbad

Down Clues

• A system of apophony or vowel gradation, especially in Indo-European languages
• Region of southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the “toe” of the Italian Peninsula
• English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward
• Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crest
• Common name for the New Zealand nettle Urtica ferox
• River on which Gateshead stands
• Series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1878 and 1886, published as Opus 46 and Opus 72
• A judge of Israel who was betrayed by his mistress Delilah
• US state whose capital is Montgomery
• Opera by Vincenzo Bellini first produced at La Scala in 1831
• Denis de ___, Swiss writer whose works include L’Amour et l’Occident, translated as Love in the Western World
• Character who kills Qui-Gon Jinn in the “15 Across” saga
• An Aramaic declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur
• Flowering plant genus in the cabbage family containing approximately 80 species
• American actor best known for playing the title role in the TV series Columbo
• German racing driver who won six races in 11 seasons from 1997 to 2007
• The state capital of Iowa
• Helen ___, actress who joined the cast of Coronation Street in 1974
• Georgia ___, American artist who died in 1986 at the age of 98
• Steroid hormone used to treat androgen deficiency or promote anabolism
• Greek tyrant who opposed Carthage’s influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies
• “Abide with me; fast falls the ___” (Henry Francis Lyte)
• Batsman appointed captain of the Pakistan Test team in October 2019
• The watery fluid in the eyeball between the cornea and the lens
• Series of books that featured random dot autostereograms, published in the US from 1993
• See 41
• Hebrew prophet of the late 8th century BC called “The Morasthite”
• The largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, shared by Croatia, Slovenia and Italy
• Ice skating jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate