Jumbo General February 29, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17, 31 and 57 Across? Connection from #557 Casanova, Liberation and Promenade are albums by The Divine Comedy

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Crossword GK Jumbo 558 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 29, 2020

Across Clues

• 1766 novel by Oliver Goldsmith whose central character is Dr Primrose
• 1882 play by Victorien Sardou that gave its name to a hat
• Tessie ___, Welsh entertainer and actress for whom Noël Coward created the part of Ada Cockle in his 1963 Broadway musical The Girl Who Came to Supper
• 1666 play by Molière whose central character is Alceste
• See 12
• Rabindranath ___, Indian poet and philosopher who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913
• The 23rd president of the United States
• Il ___, 15th-century mural by Leonardo da Vinci also known as The Last Supper
• The Palestinian uprising against Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that started at the end of 1987
• Opera by Puccini based on a play by Victorien Sardou
• Real first name of the late actor Kirk Douglas
• 1983 film starring Jack Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine
• The second largest London borough by population
• Former Luton Town, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur centre forward who is now a pundit on Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday
• City in Tunisia 140 km south of Tunis whose ancient name was Hadrumetum
• Tokyo-born actress who was the older sister of Joan Fontaine
• Aaron Copland ballet featuring Hoe-Down, which was recorded by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• Series of computer games set in the fictional nation of Albion created by Peter Molyneux
• American political movement that emerged from Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential primary campaign
• British preschool animated television series first broadcast on Channel 5 in 2004
• David Lean film that won seven Oscars, including Best Picture
• A dry red wine produced in the Piedmont region of Italy
• Marvel Comics superhero, alter ego of Matt Murdock, who first appeared in 1964
• American actor whose screen debut was an uncredited bit part as a laboratory assistant in the 1955 film Revenge of the Creature
• Left tributary of the river Moselle that rises near Vaux-sur-Sûre in southeastern Belgium
• Ray ___, actor who played Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s film Goodfellas
• Town in Gloucestershire at the confluence of the Rivers Severn and Avon

Down Clues

• Spanish football club known as Los Leones
• Ancient Athenian philosopher who was the son of Hipponicus and brother of Callias
• 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac
• US state whose capital is Augusta
• Spiral tube that forms part of the internal ear and converts sound vibrations into nerve impulses
• Ancient Latin hymn from a canticle that begins with words meaning “Thee, God, we praise”
• English comedy actress, writer and producer who provides voices for “45 Across”
• Civilian occupation of Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Army
• A loudspeaker used for the reproduction of low audio frequencies
• Play by Anton Chekhov first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre
• The second-largest island in the Mediterranean
• Familiar name for the company whose flagship publication is The Wall Street Journal
• Greek philosopher who taught Aristotle and was a friend of “2 Down”
• Member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154, also known as a White Friar
• Latin word used in textual annotation meaning lower down on the page or further on in the book
• Type of aircraft engine that powers the Airbus A400M, for example
• City in Northern Ireland with Roman Catholic and Protestant archbishops
• The capital of the Bahamas
• 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler featuring detective Philip Marlowe
• The freshwater fish Salmo gairdneri
• Wife of the Roman emperor Augustus and mother of Tiberius
• English nurse executed by the Germans in World War I for helping Allied prisoners to escape
• The common viper Vipera berus
• A seducer in Nicholas Rowe’s 1703 tragedy The Fair Penitent
• Herbivorous dinosaur with a very long neck and tail
• Legal term for suicide
• The destroyer, a name given to the Devil in the Book of Revelation
• Suburb of Liverpool that is the site of the racecourse over which the Grand National has been run since 1839
• Pat ___, former jockey who rode the Derby winners Grundy, Golden Fleece and Quest for Fame
• Louisa May ___, US novelist best known for Little Women
• Neurodevelopmental disorder first described by Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner
• See 7