Jumbo General October 10, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 31 and 52 Across? Connection from #589 The Linnean Society of London, Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Academy of Arts are based in Burlington House

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Crossword GK Jumbo 590 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 10, 2020

Across Clues

• London-born TV presenter who hosted an eponymous tabloid talk show on US television between 1991 and 2018
• English actress whose TV roles have included Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street, Jean in Dinnerladies and Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax
• Name by which Benfica’s stadium is known
• Camille ___, French composer whose works include The Carnival of the Animals and Danse macabre
• A system of exercise named after its German inventor whose father was a gymnast from Greece
• See 51
• Instructions to a candidate at the head of an examination paper
• Country whose capital is Riga
• William ___, English journalist and social reformer who founded The Political Register and wrote Rural Rides
• Communications code word for the letter N
• Period from about the late 5th century to about 1000 AD
• Unit of heat equal to 100,000 btu
• Asian republic on the Mediterranean Sea established in 1948 in the former British mandate of Palestine
• Former currency unit of Spain
• Former prime minister whose middle names are Charles Lynton
• A medical condition in which patches of skin become rough and inflamed with blisters
• Irish princess married to Mark, king of Cornwall, but in love with his knight Tristan
• The vertical part of a stair or step
• An Asian pheasant with a brilliant plumage and brightly coloured fleshy processes on the head
• The largest city in the Texas Panhandle
• The Importance of Being ___, Oscar Wilde play subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
• Magazine, originally founded in 1709, which features the lives and lifestyles of the upper class
• The largest listed company in Japan by market capitalisation
• In architecture, the flat upper part of the capital of a column
• A southern African beverage prepared from the dried leaves of certain leguminous shrubs, also called rooibos
• A microcrystalline form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres
• The first song by The Who on which Pete Townshend sang lead vocals
• Robert Louis Stevenson story originally called The Sea Cook
• President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999

Down Clues

• 1959 number one single in the UK for Bobby Darin that features Neil Sedaka on piano
• Comedy by Aristophanes about a woman’s mission to end the Peloponnesian War by persuading the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges
• The highest ranking of the four suits in bridge
• American actor who played Dr David Banner in the TV series The Incredible Hulk
• Play by George Bernard Shaw, set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil’s Aeneid
• Left-handed batsman who played 117 Test matches and 114 One Day Internationals and had two spells as England captain
• Boy band created on the ITV TV series Popstars: The Rivals who lost out to girl group Girls Aloud in the battle for the 2002 Christmas number one single
• Name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory in J R R Tolkien’s works
• A housing for a ship’s compass
• The first published full-length novel by Henry Fielding
• Small graceful antelope of which there is a Thomson’s variety
• Gastón ___, Uruguayan attacking midfielder whose English clubs have included Southampton and Middlesbrough
• Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose films include Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid and Tommy
• G K ___, English writer who created the priest-detective Father Brown
• River on which Rome stands
• President of the Irish Republic from 1959 to 1973
• Tune by Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster that gave its name to the 1979 debut album by Madness
• An officer attendant upon the British sovereign
• Historical figure known as ‘the scourge of God’
• The garden in Jerusalem in which Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion
• Common name for Solanum erianthum, a species of nightshade
• Large genus of flowering plants known as beardtongues
• Stage name of the Dutch exotic dancer Margaretha Geertruida “Grietje” Zelle MacLeod
• Uninhabited British island in the North Atlantic, 220 miles west of the Outer Hebrides
• A Hindu god who with Vishnu and Shiva constitutes the triad known as the Trimurti
• See 6
• In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife