Jumbo General May 16, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 25 and 56 Across? Connection from #568 Rain, cuckoo and canary are organ stops

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Crossword GK Jumbo 569 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 16, 2020

Across Clues

• Leader of Solidarity who won the 1983 Nobel peace prize
• 1980s TV series starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd
• Small port in NE Libya taken from the Italians by the British in January 1941
• In Norse mythology, a dwarf who possessed a treasure hoard, which was stolen by Loki
• Singer who had a top ten hit with Stop! in 1989
• 1975 David Bowie single that appeared on the Station to Station album the following year
• 1984 debut album by Nik Kershaw
• 1985 Peter Weir film starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis
• A literary or archaic name for China
• English comedian associated with Emu
• The largest US state
• Asiatic tree of the genus Pogostemon, the leaves of which yield a fragrant oil
• Jean ___, 17th-century French poet and dramatist whose plays include Andromaque and Phèdre
• The fifth studio album by King Crimson, released in 1973
• The capital of Colombia
• The state capital of Minnesota
• The spring term at Oxford University, the Inns of Court and some other educational establishments
• The testis of a male fish filled with mature sperm
• ___ of the North, a seminal 1922 feature-length documentary film by Robert Flaherty
• 1959 Top Ten hit for Neil Sedaka, co-written with Howard Greenfield
• Former LibDem MP for Montgomeryshire, from 1983 to 1997, created a life peer in 1999
• Right-handed “knuckleball” pitcher who spent his entire Major League Baseball playing career, 1920-32, with the Philadelphia Athletics
• Winter Olympic event that combines rifle shooting and cross-country skiing
• Alberto ___, pen name of Italian novelist and short-story writer Alberto Pincherle
• The capital of Croatia
• American actor who died of a drug overdose in 1993
• English actor whose TV series include Only Fools and Horses, The Darling Buds of May and A Touch of Frost

Down Clues

• Roman emperor born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
• Richard Brinsley ___, Irish dramatist whose works include The Rivals and School for Scandal
• The very large plankton-eating fish Cetorhinus maximus, also called a sailfish
• English writer best known for The Darling Buds of May
• The capital of Jordan
• The first of Slade’s six UK number one singles
• 2008 winner of the BBC’s Helen Rollason Award who played rugby for Bristol and England and cricket for Gloucestershire
• A hot gaseous mass that radiates energy
• 1983 Billy Bragg song that became a hit single when covered by Kirsty MacColl the next year
• Village in Berkshire that was the starting point of marches organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• A school of whales
• Old World songbird with a long pointed bill and a mostly yellow-and-black plumage
• Sue ___, widow of Leonard Cheshire who established a Foundation for the Sick and Disabled
• River in central Canada that rises in Saskatchewan and flows east through several lakes to Hudson Bay
• 1963 Robert Wise horror film starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn
• 1956 song written by Jay Hawkins that has been covered by artists such as Nina Simone, The Alan Price Set, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Bryan Ferry
• In J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, a horse of Rohan that no one except Gandalf could ride
• Emblem that symbolises Judaism
• Legendary Persian queen who was the storyteller in the One Thousand and One Nights
• Inflammation of small masses of lymphatic tissue situated on each side of the back of the mouth
• David ___, Welsh show jumper who was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1960
• The main vessel in the arterial network
• Author who created James Bond
• A dry brown brandy distilled in the French district of Gers
• A mollusc of the class Pelecypoda, which includes clams, cockles, oysters and mussels
• Bettino ___, Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987
• Female forename that comes from the Greek word for goddess
• Body part to which the adjective labial relates
• The legal alias of the Archbishops of York