Jumbo General September 19, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 21, 29 and 35 Across? Connection from #586 Tommy, Bourbon and Cowslip are 18th-century winners of the St Leger

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Crossword GK Jumbo 587 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 19, 2020

Across Clues

• The secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley
• The plant Convallaria majalis, which has spikes of white bell-shaped flowers
• The sixth book in the Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves
• 1969 film by Federico Fellini, loosely based on Petronius’s work of the same name
• A climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years
• 1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni with a soundtrack featuring Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead
• A series of three related works
• Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed himself when Achilles’ armour was given to Odysseus
• Witold ___, Polish composer and conductor whose works include the orchestral song-cycle Chantefleurs et chantefables
• Horse that won the 1953 Derby
• Japanese cartoon films of which Spirited Away is the highest-grossing example
• The only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands
• Rover model in which Andy Rouse won the 1984 British Saloon Car Championship
• A best-selling 1974 novel by Len Deighton
• Old English coin worth five shillings
• Another name for the Greek classical hero Hercules
• Norman hero of the First Crusade who played a prominent part in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099
• Novel by Erich Segal published on Valentine’s Day in 1970
• See 31 Down
• Actress sister of Sinéad and Sorcha Cusack
• Large body of fresh water in Perth and Kinross at whose eastern end the River Tummel begins
• A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru
• 2015 film featuring Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond
• 1925 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set during the summer of 1922
• Giorgio ___, Italian fashion designer who studied medicine at the University of Milan for three years
• Auguste ___, French chef at London’s Savoy Hotel in the last decade of the 19th century
• 1987 film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway that is a semi-autobiography of Charles Bukowski
• Federal subject of Russia whose capital is Grozny
• Thomas ___, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton

Down Clues

• Country whose capital is Baku
• Language almost identical to Hindi in basic structure and grammar
• Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytes
• Christian festival celebrated on November 1
• See 39
• See 55
• King of England whose mother was Mary, Queen of Scots
• Australian city, capital of New South Wales
• Writer of histories and annals of the Roman Empire
• Doc Brown’s dog in the Back to the Future films
• The state capital of Nebraska
• British art rock band whose debut single was Virginia Plain
• 1981 top ten single by Toyah
• The ___, private hospital in Roehampton best known for treating celebrities for addiction
• Department of France, in Picardy region, whose capital is Laon
• City on the coast of S China that was a Portuguese overseas province until 1999
• George ___, American actor best known for playing Norm Peterson in Cheers
• Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
• Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons
• Small edible marine decapod crustacean with a long tail and two pairs of pincers
• Peninsula containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia
• The amphibious Australian egg-laying mammal Ornithorhynchus anatinus
• 1984 David Bowie top ten hit, loosely inspired by Eddie Cochran
• Nontechnical name for the femur
• A sound recording disc used for demonstration or other short-term purposes
• Dead skin, especially that round the base of a fingernail or toenail
• Real first name of “Shaggy” in the Scooby-Doo cartoons
• Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
• Chinese system of exercise and self-defence, using balance and co-ordination with minimum effort
• Points value of the brown ball in snooker
• 1998 film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker that spawned two sequels