Jumbo General August 29, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 22, 42 and 55 Across? Connection from #583 Lola Montez, Josephine de Beauharnais and Lulu had Marie as their real first name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 584 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 29, 2020

Across Clues

• 2017 ITV game show presented by Rylan Clark-Neal
• Series of first-person shooter video games developed by id Software from 1993
• Drummer whose ‘Five’ topped the UK singles charts in January 1964 with Glad All Over
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for To Kill a Mockingbird
• Soft silvery-white metallic element of the lanthanide series used as a neutron absorber in nuclear control rods
• 1946 Powell and Pressburger film released in the US under the title Stairway to Heaven
• Light-sensitive membrane forming the inner lining of the posterior wall of the eyeball
• The county town of County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland
• Wizard and counsellor to King Arthur in Arthurian legend
• TV series presented by Esther Rantzen on BBC1 between 1973 and 1994
• Co-author, with Jonathan Lynn, of the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister who was knighted in 1988
• A person who buys up old horses for slaughter
• Hungarian chess player who became the world’s youngest grandmaster in 1994
• See 23
• 1984 musical, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, featuring the song I Know Him So Well
• Song, based on a melody that was written as a jingle for a Lego commercial, sung by Justin Hayward on the album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
• Compact variety of talc also called steatite
• A sustained involuntary muscular contraction
• Another name for the puma
• Dutch portrait and genre painter best known for The Laughing Cavalier
• See 35
• 2008 animated film by Nick Park, the fourth to feature Wallace and Gromit
• A chordate animal characterised by a bony or cartilaginous skeleton and a well-developed brain
• German dish of beef marinated in vinegar and sugar and then braised
• Carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla
• 1960 play about T E Lawrence by Terence Rattigan
• US western TV series starring James Garner that ran from 1957 to 1962

Down Clues

• Asian republic that was formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan
• Island in the Firth of Clyde whose chief town is Rothesay
• 1943 Western film directed by Howard Hughes that turned Jane Russell into a sex symbol and Hollywood icon
• Character who delivers the line “A handbag?” in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest
• See 8
• In Greek mythology, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba whose prophecies were not believed
• See 51
• England’s most-capped cricketer
• See 45
• Nickname of the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War
• Part of speech that usually ends with a y
• 2003 children’s book by Dick King-Smith about a kitten
• The southernmost of the Inner Hebrides
• Caribbean republic whose capital is Roseau
• 1647 opera by the Italian composer Luigi Rossi that was one of the earliest operas to be staged in France
• British lingerie retailer founded in 1994 by Joseph Corré and Serena Rees
• The last person to rule Egypt as a pharaoh
• 1968 novel by Charles Portis, filmed by Henry Hathaway in 1969 and by the Coen brothers in 2010
• Congenital disease caused by chromosomal abnormality named after a 19th-century English physician
• See 26
• A sauce for pasta consisting of crushed basil leaves, nuts, garlic, oil and Parmesan cheese
• George Michael’s first live album, released in 2014
• Musical direction meaning to be played with strong initial attack
• From the 13th century to 1806, a German count who ruled over a specified territory
• The birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher
• French army officer whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 prompted Emile Zola to write the pamphlet J’accuse
• Labour life peer and former MP who was saved from the Nazis in Prague by English stockbroker Nicholas Winton
• A sea perch such as Morone labrax
• Common name for the fruit of the tree Pyrus nivalis
• Ancient Phoenician city that is the legendary birthplace of Dido