Jumbo General July 06, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 31 and 52 Across? Connection from #523 Leslie Hore-Belisha, Viv Richards and Don Everly had Isaac as their real first name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 524 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 06, 2019

Across Clues

• Italian composer of operas such as Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida
• 1960s TV series, based on books by John Creasey, starring Steve Forrest as John Mannering
• Brand of cigarettes launched by W D & H O Wills in 1959 and withdrawn in the early 1960s
• British technology company founded in 1993 to market a dual cyclone vacuum cleaner
• Charles Dickens novel featuring Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby
• Actor best known for playing Kwai Chang Caine, or “Grasshopper”, in the 1970s TV series Kung Fu
• The powdered stem of the tropical plant Curcuma longa
• Name given to the Infantry Mk IV (A22) tank, the heaviest Allied tank used in World War II
• Another name for a drop scone
• 1994 film starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, based on a novel by Michael Crichton
• 1922 adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini
• Daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea, who received a lock of Medusa’s hair from Heracles to protect her town from attack
• One of the main satellites of Uranus, discovered by William Lassell in 1851
• London borough whose legal challenge scuppered the GLC’s Fares Fair policy
• US state whose capital is Charleston
• The 1989 feature film debut of screenwriter Richard Curtis and director Mel Smith, starring Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson
• Debut single by The Honeycombs that topped the UK chart in 1964
• A 2-dimensional patterned array used to represent characters, symbols and images
• An Italian sparkling wine named after a village near Trieste
• The official map-making body of the British government
• Book by Chinese writer Jung Chang subtitled Three Daughters of China
• 1979 John Schlesinger film starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave
• A vehicle used to carry a coffin to the grave, from the Latin for harrow, which it originally resembled
• Celebrity chef, TV personality and former barrister best known as one half of the Two Fat Ladies, with Jennifer Paterson

Down Clues

• English crime writer who created detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
• Surname of the Haitian presidents known as Papa Doc and Baby Doc
• White Italian wine grape variety grown primarily in the Marche region of central Italy
• A predatory silk-producing arachnid of the order Araneae
• Town in Worcestershire, on the River Avon, that was the scene of a 1265 battle in which Lord Edward defeated Simon de Montfort
• Sultanate in NW Borneo whose capital is Bandar Seri Begawan
• English composer whose works include the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the opera The Midsummer Marriage
• Andrew ___, folk song that is Child Ballad 233, versions of which have been recorded by The Boys of the Lough, Ewan MacColl, Martin Simpson and Kate Rusby
• In computing, a lever by means of which the movement of a cursor can be controlled, used mainly for gaming
• A special pack of cards used mainly for fortune-telling
• The ___, 1902 piano rag by Scott Joplin used as the theme music for the 1973 film The Sting
• William ___, archbishop of Canterbury impeached by the Long Parliament in 1640 and executed in 1645
• Insect of the suborder Blattodea that is a household pest
• 1995 Michael Mann film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer
• Colourless, tasteless powder consisting chiefly of mercurous chloride, used medicinally as a cathartic
• A surgical instrument for scraping the walls of certain body cavities
• King of England from 23 April to 18 October 1016
• Educational institution founded in 1969 for distance learning
• Viral disease of parrots that can be passed on to humans
• In architecture, a moulding having a cross section in the form of a letter S
• The last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
• A unit of pressure equivalent to the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760mm high at 0 degrees Celsius at sea level
• The nocturnal mammal Proteles cristatus, that inhabits the plains of southern Africa and feeds on termites and insect larvae
• A red grape variety used in Australian wine production, principally in northern Victoria
• Ancient Hindu religion that believes that the material world is eternal, progressing endlessly in a series of vast cycles
• The firm white fibrous membrane that forms the outer covering of the eyeball
• The third largest city in Japan
• Solid carbon dioxide used as a refrigerant and in stage shows
• 1995 Martin Scorsese film for which Sharon Stone won a Best Actress Oscar nomination