Jumbo General August 15, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17, 32 and 54 Across? Connection from #581 Infamous, Enigma and Svengali are Derren Brown stage shows

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Crossword GK Jumbo 582 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 15, 2020

Across Clues

• Italian mathematician who popularised the decimal system in Europe
• Genus of plants in which the flowers are produced in a spadix surrounded by a spathe
• Dutch actor who played replicant Roy Batty in the 1982 film Blade Runner
• Four crotchet beats to the bar in music
• English composer whose 32 symphonies include the large-scale Gothic Symphony
• English city whose Latin name was Lindum
• In baseball, a division of the game consisting of a turn at bat and a turn in the field for each side
• Pen name of the American novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens
• English singer who won an Oscar for Best Original Song for Skyfall
• Tree also known as the trembling poplar
• Stimulating milky beverage made from the dried leaves of the South American tree Ilex paraguariensis
• The capital of the Central African Republic
• The Croatian name for Croatia
• Middlesex town that became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in 1965 and was the erstwhile home of EMI Records
• Location of the first signing of a treaty between Maori Chiefs and the British Crown in 1840 whose name means ‘weeping waters’ in Maori
• The large Indian antelope Boselaphus tragocamelus
• Italian name for sponge fingers, an important ingredient in the dessert tiramisu
• In Greek mythology, an enchantress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
• See 44
• City in the Netherlands, in central Gelderland province, close to Het Loo, the summer residence of the Dutch royal family
• Former New Zealand batsman who scored the fastest double century in Test cricket against England in Christchurch in 2002
• Market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire associated with “a fine lady upon a white horse” in a well-known nursery rhyme
• 1931 novel by Aldous Huxley set in the London of AD 2540
• Robin ___, Rude Mechanical in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who plays the part of Moonshine in the performance of Pyramus and Thisbe
• 1798 oratorio by Joseph Haydn considered by many to be his masterpiece
• Island in the Pacific Ocean that is the largest and southernmost of the Marianas
• Former county of England formed in 1974 from parts of Durham and Yorkshire
• Any one of eight bicuspid teeth in the human adult

Down Clues

• English theatre director who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the RSC for 13 years
• Small biting insect commonly found near stagnant water
• Amphibian of the family Hylidae with long toes ending in adhesive discs which assist in climbing
• In the Old Testament, Moses’ successor who led the Israelites in the conquest of Canaan
• Play by Alfred Jarry that opened and closed in Paris on December 10, 1896
• The largest snake, a non-venomous constrictor native to tropical South America
• Max ___, German boxer who was world heavyweight champion between 1930 and 1932
• A cocked hat with two points
• 1815 novel by Sir Walter Scott subtitled The Astrologer
• Fictional material in the 1961 Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor which gave its name to a 1997 remake
• In Greek mythology, the only Amazon known to have married
• Electronic system for the transfer and storage of telephone messages
• In Greek mythology, a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
• Radio and TV personality who co-presented the ITV children’s show Magpie from 1977 to 1980, replacing Douglas Rae
• Moroccan port which became the centre of an international incident in 1911 when a gunboat arrived to protect German interests
• Black Chinese tea whose name came to be associated with an inferior grade
• American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California
• Best picture at the 2000 Oscars
• 1980 Rupert Holmes single known as “The Piña Colada Song”
• Country whose capital is Stockholm
• Popular song written by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler for the show The Little Dog Laughed
• A white grape grown in the Burgundy region of France and elsewhere, used for making wine
• 1969 road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern
• Chinese puzzle in which shapes are formed from a square cut up into seven pieces
• American actor whose films include 12 Angry Men and Sweet Bird of Youth, for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
• Jonathan ___, BBC Radio 5 Live’s main tennis reporter from 2002 to 2013
• City and port in Connecticut that is the seat of Yale University
• Agency of the United Nations that sponsors programmes to promote education, communication, the arts, etc
• Robert ___, American film director whose works include Nashville and Short Cuts
• Rock band from “29 Down” whose biggest hit was the 1986 single The Final Countdown
• Metallic element with the chemical symbol Fe