Jumbo General August 22, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 22 and 55 Across? Connection from #582 Lincoln, Hayes and Cleveland were 19th-century US presidents

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Crossword GK Jumbo 583 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 22, 2020

Across Clues

• The wife and older sister of Zeus in Greek mythology
• British writer whose children’s books include The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children
• The opening track of The Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers
• Irish dancer and actress who became mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld
• English actor and singer who played the title role in the original London production of Jesus Christ Superstar
• Region of southern Italy at the “toe” of the Italian Peninsula
• A horse race in which the winning horse must be offered for sale at auction
• The first wife of Napoleon I and the first Empress of the French
• The capital of Bahrain
• Deputy Town Marshal of Tombstone, Arizona who took part in the Gunfight at the OK Corral
• Species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae commonly called ivy
• 1971 album by Carole King, one of the best-selling albums of all time
• Iolanda ___, Romanian high jumper who won Olympic gold medals at Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964
• American actress whose films include Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown
• 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave
• The fronded plant Thelypteris phegopteris
• Member of a Native American people whose leaders included Cochise and Geronimo
• Thomas Hardy novel whose title comes from Thomas Gray’s poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1984
• New Zealand city that hosted the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• 1936 film starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, based on 1101 Park Avenue, a short novel by Eric Hatch
• The dictator of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Antananarivo
• Jan ___, Dutch painter who shared a studio with Rembrandt from about 1626 to 1631
• Scottish singer who sang the title song to the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun

Down Clues

• See 52
• 1951 play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin
• A monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhere
• County known as “The Garden of England”
• The stirrup-shaped bone that is the innermost of three small bones in the middle ear
• Liverpudlian comedian played football for Hyde FC and Southport FC
• Large French retail chain selling cultural and electronic products, founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954
• In Roman tradition, the queen of the Olympian gods
• The igneous rock that makes up the Giant’s Causeway
• A diurnal bird of prey of the genus Buteo
• A rich French stew or soup of fish and vegetables
• The biggest-selling single of 1961, recorded by Del Shannon
• Comic strip that appeared in the Daily Mirror from 1943 to 1997
• Youth who drowned in the Hellespont while swimming to reach his beloved Hero
• A novel in which real people are depicted under fictitious names
• Town in the West Bank near Jerusalem that was the birthplace of Jesus
• The North American bird Otus asio
• See 49
• German painter and printmaker regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance
• King of England known as Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots
• Brand introduced by General Motors in 1926 as the companion marque to its Oakland division
• New Zealand bird generally believed to have become extinct by 1500 AD
• Italian city in Emilia-Romagna noted for food such as ham and cheese
• Fish also called bummalo
• 1993 film that was the directorial debut of Robert De Niro
• Margaret ___, English novelist whose elder sister is A S Byatt
• Mass migration such as that by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in NW Canada between 1896 and 1899
• Brazilian footballer who became the world’s most expensive player when he joined Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona in 2017
• ___ of the King, a cycle of twelve narrative poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur
• Somerset city with a 12th-century cathedral
• English musician born Stuart Leslie Goddard in 1954
• In many parts of South Asia, a series of steps leading down to a river
• The wading bird Ardea cinerea