Jumbo General February 22, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 21, 40 and 54 Across? Connection from #556 Leandro, Pantalone and Fata Morgana are characters in Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges

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Crossword GK Jumbo 557 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 22, 2020

Across Clues

• The 16th president of the United States of America
• Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in war
• County of NW Republic of Ireland, on the Atlantic
• Actor best known for playing Neil in the TV series The Young Ones
• The plant Verbascum thapsus, that has woolly leaves and tall erect spikes of yellow flowers
• Roman general and governor of Britain who advanced Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth
• Town in Oxfordshire that hosts the largest one-day agricultural show in Britain
• Italian adventurer famous for his autobiography, Histoire de ma vie
• Mexican tortilla containing cheese and other ingredients, folded in half to form a half-moon shape
• Ivy League university founded in 1701
• See 15
• Michael Jackson’s first solo album on Epic Records, produced by Quincy Jones
• 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, based on Thornton Wilder’s 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers
• Stefan ___, Swedish tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1988 and 1990
• Nickname of the first US presidential aircraft
• French drink made from barley or almonds, and orange flower water
• The capital of Slovakia
• French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973
• Brian ___, controversial English art critic, who was the illegitimate son of the composer Peter Warlock
• The former name of Thailand
• Greek-born economist convicted of perverting the course of justice with her former husband, MP Chris Huhne, in 2013
• Technical name for the collarbone
• 1884 opera by Jules Massenet based on a 1731 novel by the Abbé Prévost
• Ancient port in Israel founded by Herod the Great that was the capital of Roman Palestine
• A recurring movement in Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
• African country whose capital is Cairo
• Any of a class of compounds produced by reaction between acids and alcohols with the elimination of water
• Creature who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth until killed by Theseus
• Oscar-winning 2001 film based on the life of John Forbes Nash

Down Clues

• Wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae considered sacred in ancient Egypt
• Largest island of French Polynesia
• Starchy cereal obtained from the powdered pith of a palm
• The youngest member of England’s 1966 World Cup winning team
• J P ___, Irish American novelist and playwright whose novels include The Ginger Man and A Fairy Tale of New York
• The opening through which air enters a jet engine
• A wart, especially one growing on the hand or foot
• Welsh actor best known for playing the title role in the TV series Hornblower
• Any elementary particle capable of taking part in a strong nuclear interaction
• A clear, colourless fruit brandy produced by fermentation and double distillation
• 1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin Britten
• See 8
• The ___, monthly magazine launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams
• Japanese city that hosted the first Winter Olympics held in Asia
• 1965 Top 10 hit for The Kinks whose B-side was I Need You
• Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Syringa
• Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth
• A fairy servant to Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• Town in Umbria that was the birthplace of St Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order there in 1208
• A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South Asia
• A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, with a retractable hood over the rear half
• Christian saint from Lincolnshire, 673–714, particularly venerated in the Fens
• Omnivorous mammal of the genera Nasua and Nasuella, of Central and South America
• 1957 film that gave Elvis Presley his first starring role, as singing delivery man Deke Rivers
• Joe ___, former England footballer who managed Oldham Athletic, Everton, Manchester City and Ipswich Town
• The great circle on the celestial sphere representing the apparent annual path of the sun relative to the stars
• City in California that was the capital of Spain’s Pacific empire from 1774 to 1825
• 1988 film starring Tom Cruise as a business student who takes up bartending
• French city with a ferry link to Portsmouth
• Religious cult associated with Haiti
• In classical mythology, a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
• To ___, poem by John Keats written in September 1819
• Town in North Holland on the IJsselmeer noted for its cheese
• A small ornamented case for holding needles and other small articles
• J Arthur ___, British industrialist whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s