Jumbo General March 14, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 30 and 49 Across? Connection from #559 Jeremy Irons, Anita Dobson and Tony Robinson appeared in the BBC children’s series Play Away

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Crossword GK Jumbo 560 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 14, 2020

Across Clues

• 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ
• Name by which a commune in the Calvados department of France bordering Deauville is commonly known
• British runner who won the 800m and 1500m at the 1920 Olympics
• Plant that is the national emblem of Scotland
• A piece of music composed for a group of nine instruments
• In North America, the driver of a railway locomotive
• Hampshire river that meets the River Itchen at Southampton
• Original UK title for an American TV series that starred Raymond Burr as a paraplegic Chief of Detectives
• A cricketer who wears gloves when fielding
• Crime and ___, 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky featuring the character Rodion Raskolnikov
• Tiny flying insect in the Dipterid suborder Nematocera
• City in southwest Germany, in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate
• In Greek mythology, a gorgon beheaded by Perseus
• A thin mortar for filling joints between tiles
• A member of a North American Indian people of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah
• Star and executive producer of the TV series Star Trek: Picard
• See 12
• City in Texas that was the site of the Alamo
• Book of the Old Testament that is the source of the words to Pete Seeger’s song Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)
• Italian director whose films include The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky
• Imre ___, Hungarian prime minister removed from office and later executed when Soviet forces suppressed the revolution of 1956
• Seaside town in Lincolnshire that’s “so bracing” according to a famous poster commissioned by the Great Northern Railway in 1908
• American rock band fronted by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson
• Marine cetacean mammal that is smaller than a whale and larger than a porpoise
• Small Mediterranean evergreen tree from which wreaths were made and worn on the head as an emblem of victory or honour in classical times
• The citadel of an ancient Greek city
• The largest city in New Jersey

Down Clues

• 1970s prog rock band formed by the brothers Phil, Derek and Ray Shulman
• Language also known as Siamese
• US poet and short-story writer best known for his stories of Californian gold miners, such as The Luck of Roaring Camp
• In Greek mythology, the horn of Amalthea, the goat that suckled Zeus
• Noël Coward play featuring the character Madame Arcati
• A window covering consisting of a number of horizontal slats whose angle may be altered to let in more or less light
• Small Scottish port and resort in Argyll and Bute on the Firth of Lorne
• Soft cows’ cheese named after the French province in which it originated
• 1994 Ron Howard film starring Michael Keaton and Glenn Close
• In chemistry, one of the alkenyl functional groups, also called ethenyl
• Horse that gave trainer Fred Winter his fourth and final Grand National victory in 1966
• Jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra
• British lexicographer whose Dictionary was first published in 1755
• The fifth largest city in Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea, at the opening end of the Hàn River
• Herefordshire market town on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean
• Disease caused by a lack of vitamin C
• Communications code word for the letter J
• The notion that work expands to fill the time available for its completion
• Solo debut single and album by Michael Jackson
• See 47
• 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis adapted for a 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy and Shirley Jones
• Canadian-born impressionist and voice actor nicknamed “The Man of a Thousand Voices” by Mel Blanc
• American actress who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Fisher King
• Form of jazz that originated in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century
• See 37
• Twyla ___, American dancer and choreographer whose film work includes Hair and White Nights
• The standard currency unit of Burma
• Welsh international goalkeeper who played 381 games for Leeds United between 1962 and 1973
• Diurnal bird of prey of the family Accipitridae