Jumbo General June 20, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 27 and 48 Across? Connection from #573 Kirk, Archer and Picard are surnames of Star Trek captains

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Crossword GK Jumbo 574 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 20, 2020

Across Clues

• Irish singer whose UK hit singles include Walk Tall and Elusive Butterfly
• Plant also called the African lily
• Carla ___, American jazz composer best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill
• River, forming part of the border between Scotland and England, that enters the North Sea at Berwick
• Synthetic medical stimulant known as speed
• Sickness caused by overindulgence in food or drink
• Portuguese producer and DJ whose single Touch Me went to number one in the UK in 2001
• A 1966 Top Ten hit single for Small Faces
• US state whose capital is Tallahassee
• Phil ___, American entertainer and comedy actor best known for playing Sergeant Bilko
• Genus of plants that includes love-lies-bleeding
• Former England cricket captain who overtook Wally Hammond as the most prolific Test batsman
• The small brown European flatfish Limanda limanda
• 1983 Lewis Gilbert film with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his stage play
• The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
• Prickly climbing plant of the genus Smilax with large aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves
• British soldier who wrote The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
• Any of two or more atoms with the same atomic number that contain different numbers of neutrons
• Hans ___, controversial German-born psychologist whose works include Uses and Abuses of Psychology
• Belgian port on the River Scheldt
• The umbelliferous fodder plant hogweed, also known as Indian celery, Indian rhubarb or pushki
• Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1927 orchestration of Tea for Two from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans
• Lead singer of Dawn who topped the singles charts with Knock Three Times and Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
• Kenneth ___, actor who played the role of Jimmy Porter in the original production of John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger in 1956
• In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife
• The fourteenth studio album by REM, released in 2008
• American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose films include the 1992 comedy Mo’ Money

Down Clues

• 1910 novel by Arnold Bennett
• The capital and chief port of Haiti
• The fourth-longest river in Europe, known to the Greeks as the Borysthenes
• Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36
• 1979 single by The Sugarhill Gang generally considered to be the song that first popularised hip hop in the United States and around the world
• The capital of Suriname
• Small ornamental bag, typically used to hold sewing articles
• French author whose novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty
• Scottish crime writer best known for a series of novels featuring Dr Tony Hill
• A supplement modifying a will or revoking some provision of it
• First name of the character in Dynasty played by Joan Collins
• Pseudonym of a well-known French urban artist whose work is modelled on the crude pixellation of 8-bit video games
• American actress, producer and TV host who made her film debut as Tracy Turnblad in John Waters’ 1988 film Hairspray
• Writer known by the pen name Saki
• Stadium that is home to Liverpool FC
• English painter noted especially for his paintings of Christ in a contemporary English setting
• 1956 film starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray
• Major Egyptian construction project on the River Nile completed in 1970
• Viennese composer of operettas such as The Chocolate Soldier
• Poem written by Horace c. 19 BC and first translated into English in 1566 by Thomas Drant
• Song by Fred Spielman and Janice Torre which was a hit for Anita Bryant in 1960 and for Marie Osmond in 1973
• English artist, illustrator, author, and poet best known for The Owl and the Pussycat
• Town in Kent on the River Medway that formerly had a royal naval dockyard
• ITV franchise holder for the East of England, responsible for the TV programme Sale of the Century
• 2015 animated film featuring creatures from the Despicable Me films
• Character in the Toy Story films voiced by Tom Hanks
• Russian for ‘no’