Jumbo General April 18, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 28 and 46 Across? Connection from #564 Arthur Sullivan, Hugh Walpole and Jane Fonda had Seymour as a middle name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 565 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 18, 2020

Across Clues

• Actor whose film roles include Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park
• 1934 film starring Grace Moore as opera singer Mary Barrett
• City in Texas that was the site of the Alamo
• Otto Erich ___, Austrian music historian and art critic, noted for his catalogue of Schubert’s works
• The world’s longest river
• Serviceman carried by plane and dropped into position
• The first single released by The Pink Floyd, as they were then called
• Woodwind instrument that is the tenor of the oboe family
• Leicester-based British clothing brand founded by Henry Wood in 1755
• The first feature-length computer animated film
• South Sydney ___, Australian rugby league team of which actor Russell Crowe is a part-owner
• Welsh actor who made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 film Brazil
• Play by William Shakespeare featuring the characters Shylock, Portia, Bassanio and Antonio
• The amount by which government expenditure exceeds income in any one fiscal year
• Method of ascertaining the amount of a substance in a solution
• Form of tuberculosis also formerly called the king’s evil
• Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais
• Italian ice cream containing chopped candied fruits
• A congenital condition in which the meninges of the spinal cord protrude through a gap in the backbone
• American actor and filmmaker whose films include Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons
• César ___, Swiss hotelier who founded several hotels, most famously in Paris and London
• County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Carrick-on-Shannon
• Town in Devon on the estuary of the River Taw
• American blues and soul singer best known for the Grammy Award-winning single Patches
• Nickname for people from Tyneside

Down Clues

• Turkish sports club based on the European side of Istanbul
• The capital of Turkey
• Sir Walter ___, the first manager of the England football team, 1946–1962
• Scottish site of a massacre of Macdonalds by Campbells and English troops in 1692
• Faint constellation on the celestial equator crossed by the Milky Way and lying close to Orion and Canis Major
• 1881 children’s story by Johanna Spyri
• A member of the aboriginal people of Japan
• Spike Lee’s first feature-length film
• Eyepatch-wearing Israeli soldier and former minister of defence and foreign minister who died in 1981
• English cartoonist noted for his absurdist drawings which have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Independent on Sunday
• 1965 novel by Anya Seton about Saint Rumon and Merewyn
• Labour politician who was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1979
• State of Malaysia whose capital is Kota Kinabalu
• A wading bird such as Platalea leucorodia or Ajaia ajaja
• Instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
• The temporary head of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador or minister
• Country formerly called Siam
• English comic actor and singer who was a cult figure in Albania
• Large constellation whose name means whale
• ___ Dimittis, the Latin name for the Canticle of Simeon
• French city that is the capital of the Hérault department
• A point on the surface of land or water at or directly above or below the centre of a nuclear explosion
• Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girl
• A burning sensation beneath the breastbone, also called cardialgia and pyrosis
• Joaquin ___, Spanish composer whose works include Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra
• Another name for the cowslip and oxlip
• Capital and largest city of Angola
• Name of a family of Italian violin makers active in Cremona from about 1549 to 1740
• Currency unit of Brazil, subdivided into 100 centavos