Jumbo General June 06, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 31 and 46 Across? Connection from #571 e e cummings, Ernest Hemingway and Jerome K Jerome were World War I ambulance drivers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 572 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 06, 2020

Across Clues

• Actor who played Jerry Leadbetter in the TV series The Good Life
• 1964 serial composition that is Milton Babbitt’s best-known work
• Type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a room
• Stage name of bassist, singer and actor Gordon Sumner
• Song combined with Little Drummer Boy and recorded in 1977 for Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas as a duet with David Bowie
• Central character in Henry Fielding’s fourth and final novel, published in 1751
• Beautiful handwriting considered as an art
• Doctor ___, novel by Boris Pasternak first published in 1957 in Italy
• Sir Thomas Stamford ___, British colonial administrator who founded Singapore
• John ___, Australian celebrity chef who began presenting MasterChef on BBC One in 2005
• Czech-born tennis player who was US Open champion 1985-87
• Gloria Gaynor hit originally released as the B-side to a cover version of the Righteous Brothers song Substitute
• Phil ___, American singer best known for his protest song I Ain’t Marching Anymore
• Comic actor who starred alongside Ade Edmondson in the TV series The Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Catflap and Bottom
• Édouard ___, French composer whose best-known piece is Symphonie espagnole
• Much-recorded popular song, based on the 1945 French song Les feuilles mortes, for which Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics in 1947
• 1975 album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers with Captain Beefheart
• The umbelliferous plant Apium graveolens dulce, whose blanched leafstalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetable
• Nontechnical name for the patella
• The son of Banquo in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth
• A Roman Catholic service in which the congregation is blessed with the sacrament
• English actor who played Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• 1994 film that was the directorial debut of Ben Stiller
• Denmark-based supermarket chain whose UK operation was bought by Asda in 2010
• See 13
• The capital of Belgium
• The stout tropical plant Pennisetum purpureum, for example

Down Clues

• The capital of the Independent State of Samoa
• Former country whose name was changed from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1929
• Body of water located in Western Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
• British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and Stomp
• Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger
• 1988 film starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin
• Painting by Leonardo da Vinci also called La Gioconda
• 1953 John Huston film, written with Truman Capote, intended as a parody of The Maltese Falcon
• The smaller and outermost of Mars’ two natural satellites
• 1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin Britten
• A Spanish dish made from rice, shellfish, chicken and vegetables
• Title assumed by Sudanese military leader Mohammed Ahmed who led a revolt against Egypt in 1881 and captured Khartoum in 1885
• The fourth album by Abba, featuring the hits Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You and Money, Money, Money
• Stewed meat and vegetables served in a thick white sauce
• A device allowing a swimmer to breathe while face down on the surface of the water
• John ___, British writer best known for his bawdy novel Fanny Hill
• 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan inspired by the 1935 trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover
• English band who had hits with Cool for Cats and Up the Junction
• Best Director Oscar-winner for Dances with Wolves
• Sam Cooke song that gave Craig Douglas his only Number 1 single
• Famous cabaret in Paris who name is French for “Red Mill”
• Small town and former manor in Devon twinned with Landunvez in Brittany
• Actress whose films include Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill
• Popular houseplant with stiff lancelike leaves
• George ___, English painter noted for his pictures of horses
• A long woollen tunic worn in ancient Greece
• American R&B recording artist whose UK number-one hits include You Make Me Wanna and Burn
• See 7
• Abbreviation for the present month used in business letters