Jumbo General July 25, 2020 Answers
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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 40 and 57 Across? Connection from #578 Josephine, Margaret and Elizabeth are forenames of March sisters in Little Women
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Crossword GK Jumbo 579 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 25, 2020
Across Clues
- The large wedge-shaped bone, consisting of five fused vertebrae, in the lower part of the back
- The capital of Nova Scotia
- Mike Leigh play that opened at the Hampstead Theatre in April 1977
- The capital of the state of Bavaria, on the Isar River
- The chief port of Spain
- The capital of the United Kingdom
- 1923 novel by D H Lawrence set in Australia
- A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- Brightest star in the constellation Cygnus
- Bumps on a ski slope used for freestyle skiing competitions
- A young unfledged bird, especially a pigeon
- John Denver’s second US number one single
- Polar explorer associated with the ship Endurance
- The capital of France
- A cultivated variety of cabbage also called turnip cabbage
- The capital of China
- Willie ___, snooker player who was nicknamed “Mr Maximum”
- The Damned ___, 2009 film in which Michael Sheen played Brian Clough
- City in San Diego County, California, nicknamed “The Big Box”
- The practice of joining a political party with the intention of changing its principles and policies
- The capital of Japan
- 1967 Top Ten hit single for Manfred Mann
- The second largest city in the United States
- The capital of Ghana
- A port and resort in Emilia-Romagna on Italy’s Adriatic coast
- See 9
- The capital of Mali
- A mixed drink that doesn’t contain alcohol
- The outer and thinner of the two bones between the knee and ankle of the leg
- 1965 comedy Western starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin
- The capital of Germany
- A 1993 collection of short stories by William Sleator
- The anhydrous commercial form of sodium carbonate
- 1945 short story by J D Salinger whose eponymous heroine lives in the Bronx
Down Clues
- The capital of Nigeria
- Another name for a pluviometer
- The second most populous state in India after Uttar Pradesh
- Play by Harold Brighouse set in Salford in 1880
- Small constellation containing the star Vega
- Girolamo ___, Italian Baroque composer whose works include the liturgical organ music collection Fiori musicali
- A cattle-rearing people of southern Africa, living chiefly in South Africa
- King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy
- Eric ___, Monty Python member who co-wrote and sang the theme tune to the TV series One Foot in the Grave
- Woody Allen film for which Diane Keaton won a Best Actress Oscar
- BBC Radio 4 programme presented by Ned Sherrin from 1998 to 2006
- ___ Dimittis, the Latin name for the Canticle of Simeon
- A senior Byzantine court title that was bestowed on the sons or sons-in-law of reigning emperors
- Play by Thornton Wilder set in the fictional community of Grover’s Corners
- Insect whose larva is often called a “doodlebug” in North America
- Nicolas ___, President of France from 2007 to 2012
- The principal port city of Syria
- Caravaggio painting in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- Coastal town in Norfolk at the mouth of the River Yare
- Horse that won the 2000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse Stakes and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1989
- Insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics
- Actor who created the role of Juan Perón in the musical Evita opposite Elaine Paige
- 1952 play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials
- English actress whose TV shows included In Loving Memory, Hallelujah! and Last of the Summer Wine
- Rugby union players that traditionally wear 9 and 10
- A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru
- Horse that won the Derby, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 1995
- Part of the body whose technical name is the pollex
- The innermost of Jupiter’s known moons
- In Greek mythology, a Thessalian king punished by Zeus for his love of Hera by being bound to a perpetually-revolving wheel
- See 11
- Mountainous Italian island that was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first place of exile