Jumbo General December 21, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 18, 37 and 50 Across? Connection from #547 William Tyndale, Robert Burns and John Stuart Mill have statues in gardens on Victoria Embankment

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Crossword GK Jumbo 548 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 21, 2019

Across Clues

• Type of bun with flour on top that originated in Lancashire
• Bill ___, England batsman who made his debut in the Centenary Test at Lord’s in 1980
• One name for the larva of a geometrid moth
• In the US, the amount charged by a bookmaker for his services, from Yiddish slang based on a Russian word for “winnings”
• The one legal party in Spain under the Franco regime
• 1974 Top 10 hit for Cozy Powell
• British actress and singer who won a Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins
• The ___ ___, Irish rock band whose single I Useta Lover topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990
• The smaller of the two satellites of Mars
• Benito ___, politician who became the 40th Prime Minister of Italy in 1922
• Perennial bulbous plant which belongs to the family Liliaceae
• Area between the North Pole and the Arctic Circle
• An electronic valve with three electrodes
• 1978 film in which Billy Crystal plays a pregnant man
• The opening track and lead single from The Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers
• Mineral of which amethyst, cairngorm and citrine are varieties
• Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for the 1982 film Victor Victoria
• In heraldry, of the colour blue
• African country whose capital is Mbabane
• Historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century
• 1990 film directed by Dennis Hopper starring Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Connelly
• Antoine de ___, French writer and aviator best remembered for his novella The Little Prince
• Alcoholic drink of which Cognac and Armagnac are varieties
• California city on San Francisco Bay damaged by an earthquake in 1989
• An orange-red translucent gemstone
• 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s 1909 play Liliom
• Sugar preparation called frosting in North America
• Walk Like an ___, single by The Bangles that topped the US chart in December 1986

Down Clues

• Actress who came to fame playing Elaine Nardo in the TV series Taxi
• Tuscan town on the main railway line from Florence to Pisa
• The wife of a rajah
• Place visited by the Israelites during their exodus from Egypt at which Moses feared that they would stone him
• Another name for the green woodpecker
• The administrative centre of Essex
• In Greek mythology, the personification of sleep
• T Rex song which became their first hit single in 1970
• 1975 Top 10 hit for The Rubettes
• Aquatic bird whose varieties include mute, trumpeter and whooper
• A German high-speed monorail train using magnetic levitation
• The largest of the German concentration camps in World War II
• A West African percussion instrument such as the dùndún or the tama
• Market town in Wiltshire that has one of the widest high streets in Britain
• 2002 film by M Night Shyamalan starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix
• One of the Quirimbas Islands in the Indian Ocean off northern Mozambique, on which Vasco da Gama reportedly rested in 1502
• 1986 film starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater
• A woman who makes a will
• Another name for a lariat
• The 40th president of the United States of America
• American actress who married Gary Oldman in 1990 and Ethan Hawke in 1998
• A type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s
• Centre back who captained the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team from 2008 until the end of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
• The policy or practice of members of a particular political group joining an existing political party with the intention of changing its principles and policies
• 1980s ITV sitcom starring Keith Barron and Gwen Taylor
• Iraqi town that was the birthplace of Saladin and Saddam Hussein
• A violet-blue dye obtained from leaves, woad, or produced synthetically
• Word used by an Italian when answering the phone
• Rare gaseous element that has the atomic number 10
• Welsh town at the mouth of the river Clwyd