Jumbo General March 07, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16, 30 and 48 Across? Connection from #558 Wakefield, Barnet and Tewkesbury are Wars of the Roses battles

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Crossword GK Jumbo 559 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 07, 2020

Across Clues

• 1980 musical fantasy film starring Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck and Gene Kelly
• US conductor and composer who wrote the score of the musical West Side Story
• 1991 western comedy film starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance
• Widespread flowering plant also known as a marguerite
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for Reversal of Fortune
• The Biggest ___ in the World, 1928 song by Will E Haines, Jimmy Harper and Tommy Connor made famous by Gracie Fields
• A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar in a church
• Sergio ___, Argentine footballer who is the top non-English scorer in the history of the Premier League
• Midfielder who captained Mexico at the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals
• Bruno ___, German-born US conductor who championed the works of Gustav Mahler
• American rock band whose acoustic ballad More Than Words was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic
• Another name for a wood pigeon
• Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray is believed to have composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Actress best known for playing Angie Watts in EastEnders
• See 29
• Any of a group of clergy in England and Scotland who declined to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689
• A Siberian breed of dog of the spitz type
• Legendary island on which King Arthur’s sword Excalibur was forged
• A disease caused by a dietary deficiency of nicotinic acid
• Pokémon species that evolves from Pikachu using the Thunder Stone in the Nintendo game series
• 2000 hit single for Tom Jones in collaboration with producer Mousse T
• English writer, notably for The Face magazine, and broadcaster whose books include The Way We Wore
• Play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in December 1879
• Courtyard in Chicago’s main civic centre dominated by an untitled 50-foot steel sculpture by Pablo Picasso that was a 1967 gift to the city
• English actor, comedian, TV presenter and political activist best known for playing Baldrick in the TV series Blackadder
• Another name for the Nunc dimittis, often used as the final song in a religious service
• Scottish market town made a Royal Burgh in 1140 by King David I

Down Clues

• Series of books that featured random dot autostereograms, published in the US from 1993
• The cupbearer of the gods in Greek mythology
• English actor, comedian, musician and composer who first came to prominence in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe
• In Greek mythology, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
• Song composed by Paul McCartney for the 1969 film The Magic Christian that was a top ten hit for Badfinger
• The fourth planet from the sun
• General during the American Revolutionary War who plotted to surrender the fort at West Point to the British forces
• English radio and TV presenter and journalist who co-hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am from 1983 to 1989
• Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
• Breed of Hungarian sporting dog similar to a Weimaraner
• Spongy cake also known as a Scotch pancake
• Another name for sleight of hand
• Market town in Umbria noted for its white wines
• In Greek mythology, the wife of Theseus and the only Amazon known to have married
• Historical wine region in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia declared a World Heritage Site in 2002
• The most westerly lake in the Lake District National Park
• Australian name for continental quilt or duvet, from a brand name
• American actress who is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for To Kill a Mockingbird
• British painter who was a member of the Bloomsbury group and sister of Virginia Woolf
• Rugby Union player who traditionally wears number 9
• A text written for and set to music in an opera
• Robert ___, English poet who married Elizabeth Barrett
• US state whose capital is Jefferson City
• French luxury cosmetics company founded by a medical student in 1954
• Ronald ___, 40th president of the US
• Two-fingered chocolate product launched by Mars Inc. in 1967