Jumbo General May 23, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 31 and 45 Across? Connection from #569 Lech Walesa, Rod Hull and David Jason were electricians

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Crossword GK Jumbo 570 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 23, 2020

Across Clues

• Italian herbal liqueur, created in 1896, that is an ingredient in a Harvey Wallbanger cocktail
• In Greek mythology, a centaur killed during a battle with Heracles by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to wound Chiron in the knee
• A written acknowledgment that payment or delivery has been made
• The oldest higher education institution in the English-speaking world
• George ___, American painter often called “the father of American landscape painting”
• Song from “33 Down” that is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide
• US Triple Crown winning horse ridden by Steve Cauthen
• A pole with a prong or hook attached for landing large fish
• 2015 sequel to the Rocky film series, starring Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone and Tony Bellew
• Opera by Mozart, with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, subtitled The Rake Punished
• Of flour, bread, etc, made from the entire wheat kernel
• American action film star whose films include Under Siege and On Deadly Ground
• Inflammation of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid
• American actor and singer best known for his portrayal of Inigo Montoya in the film The Princess Bride
• Town in Greater Manchester on the River Irwell that is the birthplace of Sir Robert Peel
• Former Surrey and England cricketer who played exactly 100 Test matches
• Minister for International Defence and Security from 2008 to 2010
• Norwegian town that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics
• Preparation of tarred fibre used in shipbuilding for caulking
• A valved brass instrument of bass pitch
• Former name for Zimbabwe
• Branch of the British Army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, etc
• Mineral with a radiating form sometimes referred to as Bologna stone
• Radio programme that has provided ball-by-ball coverage of cricket since 1957
• The ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates such as the hydra
• Stanley ___, stage name of the English comic actor born Arthur Stanley Jefferson
• Style of printer’s typeface in which the characters have no small lines at the extremities of the main strokes

Down Clues

• The European oceanic bird Puffinus puffinus
• 1980 ballad by Air Supply that reached number 2 in the US and number 11 in the UK
• 1966 film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, based on a book of the same name by Joy Adamson
• Another name for the E region of the ionosphere
• Bond villain played by Joseph Wiseman in a 1962 film
• South African golfer who won the US Open in 2001 and 2004
• Irish composer born John Reidy in Cork in 1931
• An early form of sonar used to detect enemy submarines
• Creighton Williams ___ Jr, general after whom the US Army named its new main battle tank in 1980
• The part of a horse’s foot between the fetlock and the hoof
• ___ Belacqua, central character in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy
• Rod used in playing snooker, billiards, etc
• The immature fruit of a cucumber, used for pickling
• 1869 composition for piano by Mily Balakirev subtitled Oriental Fantasy
• Oxfordshire village that was the site of the last flash lock on the River Thames
• Cockney flower girl in the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion
• The northern lights
• 1990 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones that was the film debut of Harry Connick Jr
• English actor who played Arthur Fowler on EastEnders for 11 years
• 1942 musical film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire with music by Irving Berlin
• Body part to which the adjective brachial relates
• Abraham’s first son who, according to to the account in Genesis, died at the age of 137
• High-speed railway service connecting London with Paris and Brussels
• The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Felix ___, English actor who was President of Equity from 1950 to 1969
• Town in NW Italy famous for its sparkling wine
• A winning point for a perfectly executed technique in judo