Jumbo General December 14, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 28 and 56 Across? Connection from #546 Steve McQueen, Jennifer Jones and Paul Newman share their names with actors who stars of the film The Towering Inferno

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Crossword GK Jumbo 547 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 14, 2019

Across Clues

• English Protestant who translated the New Testament into English and was burnt at the stake as a heretic
• Hungarian-born American socialite and actress who voiced Miss Bianca in Disney’s The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
• Any beetle of the family Curculionidae
• The compound leaf of a fern
• BBC detective series that starred Trevor Eve in the title role
• Novel by James Joyce that was published in 1939
• The Roman counterpart of Nike
• London Underground station served by the Circle, District, Northern and Bakerloo lines
• US poet whose volumes of verse include Lord Weary’s Castle and For the Union Dead
• 2003 Farrelly brothers film starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins
• Scottish lyric poet whose best known poems include Auld Lang Syne and Tam o’ Shanter
• 1947 novella by John Steinbeck whose central character is called Kino
• Autonomous region of SW China whose capital is Lhasa
• Gaius ___, friend and political advisor to Octavian and patron of Horace and Virgil
• 1967 Jefferson Airplane hit single written by Grace Slick while she was still with The Great Society
• Australian actor whose autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was published shortly after his death
• 1995 film starring Jessica Lange and Halle Berry, based on the novel of the same name by Seth Margolis
• Prickly hybrid rosaceous plant named after an American judge and horticulturist who first grew it
• Small cetacean mammal with a blunt snout and many teeth
• The 12th president of the United States
• Prosimian primate of tropical Africa also called a golden potto
• The capital of Jordan
• 1965 number one single by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
• 1748 epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled the History of a Young Lady
• English philosopher and economist who wrote the 1859 treatise On Liberty

Down Clues

• BBC sitcom set at Maplins holiday camp
• Country whose capital is Ljubljana
• German maker of optical instruments who founded a company in Jena, Germany in 1846
• American actress best known for playing Jennifer Hart in the 1980s TV series Hart to Hart
• The official motto of the United States since 1956
• Karl ___, 19th-century German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks
• See 3
• The seventh studio album by The Beatles, released in August 1966
• 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan inspired by the 1935 trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover
• 1970s American TV crime drama series that starred David Janssen as the title character
• Street in the City of London that Bob Cratchit slides down 20 times in honour of it being Christmas Eve in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
• Gordon ___, character played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel
• Ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 from Bristol to North America
• W S Gilbert’s childhood nickname which he used in the title of his ballads, a collection of light verse
• Sir Frank ___, the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team
• Pompeo ___, Italian-born US sculptor best known for the Alamo Plaza work Spirit of Sacrifice in San Antonio, Texas
• Port and resort on the Black Sea in Ukraine that hosted a 1945 conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
• The capital of Morocco
• Pakistani-born British singer–songwriter whose debut album, Seasons of My Soul, was released in 2010
• William ___, Canadian actor best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek
• Knighted English actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
• Comedy by Ben Jonson first performed in 1610
• Chinese ethnic group mostly inhabiting the Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces
• Rodolphe ___, Swiss chocolate manufacturer who invented the conching machine and other processes to improve the quality of chocolate
• Daniel ___, Irish politician known as “The Liberator”
• Richard Brinsley ___, Irish dramatist whose works include The Rivals and School for Scandal
• 16th-century Onondaga Indian chief credited with the organisation of the Five Nations
• Plant of the genus Pelargonium
• Redness of the skin caused by irritation or injury to the tissue
• See 4
• See 51
• Irish National Hunt racehorse trainer who was Champion Jockey in 1977–78 and 1979–80
• A portable, bent dwelling structure traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia