Jumbo General January 18, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 26 and 48 Across? Connection from #551 Praying mantis, peepul and hill mynah have religiosa as part of their binomial name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 552 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 18, 2020

Across Clues

• 1934 Cole Porter musical set aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London
• Former England rugby player who became a team captain on A Question of Sport in 2004
• A 1991 film starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin
• A small insectivorous terrestrial lizard of warm regions
• An orchestral passage between verses of an aria or song
• 1995 film starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin Spacey
• State of NE India whose capital is Gangtok
• City and port of entry in NE Mexico, in Tamaulipas state on the Rio Grande
• Variety of peach tree whose fruit has a smooth skin
• In the Robin Hood legend, a wandering minstrel who became a member of the Merry Men
• English actress who played Annie Palmer in EastEnders from 1997 until 1999
• A raised platform set up in a church as the appointed place for preaching
• An agile terrestrial marsupial of Australia and New Guinea that feeds mainly on small invertebrates
• A cocktail of rum, Curaçao and lime juice
• Means of controlling conception without the aid of a contraceptive device
• A variety of Curaçao liqueur made from the dried peels of bitter and sweet oranges
• A skin eruption or rash occurring in measles or scarlet fever
• A loose-woven gauzelike cotton fabric used as a material for making shirts and blouses in the 1960s and 1970s
• Name used by Gareth Jones when he presented the TV shows BMX Beat, Music Box and Get Fresh
• Italian scholar whose political treatise Defensor pacis is seen as the most revolutionary in the late Middle Ages
• Coronation Street character who was a barmaid at the The Rovers Return, played by Sue Jenkins between 1985 and 1988
• An assembly of four or six wheels forming a pivoted support at either end of a railway coach
• A printed, patterned cotton fabric with glazed finish
• Non-competitive sporting fixtures
• Comedian who married Jennifer Saunders in 1985

Down Clues

• Hospital-based sitcom that starred starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli and Richard Wilson
• American author and journalist to whom Salman Rushdie dedicated his 2008 novel The Enchantress of Florence
• In J K Rowling’s Harry Potter stories, Marvolo Gaunt’s ring, Tom Riddle’s diary, Helga Hufflepuff’s cup, Salazar Slytherin’s locket, Rowena Ravenclaw’s diadem, Harry Potter and Nagini
• 2004 album by Green Day following the life of a character called Jesus of Suburbia
• Inflammation of the ear
• A medical application also called a cataplasm
• In ancient Rome, an officer elected by the plebs to protect their interests
• Nikolai ___, Russian author whose best-known works are The Government Inspector and Dead Souls
• The eighth sign of the zodiac
• The largest city in Tanzania
• A carnivorous marine gastropod mollusc of the family Buccinidae
• A musical time signature indicating two or four minims to a bar
• Leslie ___, Singapore-born British novelist who created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint
• 1971 single and album by John Lennon
• Distillation product from coal tar boiling containing aromatic hydrocarbons
• In Greek mythology, a nymph dwelling in a lake, river, spring or fountain
• A medical condition characterised by dizziness, abdominal cramp and prostration
• State of SE India whose capital is Hyderabad
• Czech-born British playwright whose works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Travesties
• The important commercial food fish Gadus macrocephalus
• Part of the Pacific Ocean between Siberia and Alaska
• Companies that provide online shopping
• The capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260 and the seat of the country’s oldest university
• See 41
• 1980s BBC comedy sketch show that starred Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and David Copperfield
• Technical name for short-sightedness
• Common name for the drug amphetamine