Jumbo General July 20, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 15 and 26 Across? Connection from #525 Asparagus, Demeter and Victoria are characters in the musical Cats

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Crossword GK Jumbo 526 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 20, 2019

Across Clues

• Michel ___, European Chief Negotiator for the United Kingdom Exiting the European Union from December 2016
• English indie rock band fronted by Alex Turner
• Hospital-based sitcom that starred starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli and Richard Wilson
• A clear, colourless fruit brandy produced by fermentation and double distillation
• Rock band fronted by Jarvis Cocker
• 1847 opera by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto by Andrea Maffei, based on Die Räuber by Friedrich von Schiller
• In Greek mythology, the messenger and herald of the gods, whose Roman counterpart is Mercury
• British government department concerned with commerce and industry, first established in the 17th century
• English highwayman executed in York for horse theft in 1739
• See 39 Down
• 1985 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa
• Synthpop group fronted by Philip Oakey
• Traditional gospel song that has been covered by Louis Armstrong, Patsy Cline, Little Richard, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and many others
• An inheritable disease of the exocrine glands characterised by chronic infection of the respiratory tract and pancreatic insufficiency
• Hawaiian word for a garland or wreath
• American corporation founded in 1964 that specialises in audio equipment
• The membrane covering a muscle fibre
• Author of the autobiographies I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock
• See 5 Down
• Stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity after death
• Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
• A saturated frosted-glass effect introduced by Apple in their OS X Yosemite operating system
• 1996 film written and directed by Tom Hanks
• A reduction often applied to insurance policies after one year
• A coarse fabric, often stiffened with gum, formerly used for clothing

Down Clues

• Soft drink certified by The Fairtrade Foundation
• The bird Cantorchilus griseus, endemic to humid forests in Brazil
• The seventh month of the year in the Jewish calendar
• See 2
• Theme tune to the TV series Minder co-written and sung by Dennis Waterman
• American actor and producer who married Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000
• Radiohead’s fifth studio album
• Streak of light in the sky also called a shooting or falling star
• US city that hosted the 1996 Olympics
• Swiss city named after a castle Rudolf III of Burgundy presented to his wife Irmengarde in 1011
• Japanese golfer on the PGA Tour nicknamed ‘the Smiling Assassin’
• A student of Aristotelianism
• Michelangelo ___, Italian modernist director whose films include L’avventura and Blow-up
• Name of one of the courtiers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
• Irish broadcaster and writer who has presented The Late Late Show on RTÉ from September 2009
• 1925 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set in the summer of 1922
• Cary ___, English actor who played Westley in the 1987 film The Princess Bride
• Former world lightweight boxing champion nicknamed “the Michigan Wildcat”
• The principal river of Wensleydale
• Lesser ___, German Impressionist painter and printmaker associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting
• A three-note chord consisting of a note and the third and fifth above it
• Cook and maid of the Finch family in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird
• Creator of the Dilbert comic strip
• Musical instrument that is played by the wind
• See 12
• Former province of France ceded to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war and regained by France in 1919
• The chief river of the Levant, also called Draco, Typhon and Axius
• Deceased court jester whose skull is exhumed by the gravedigger in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
• See 5
• Villainous ensign in Shakespeare’s Othello
• The plant Hibiscus esculentus, also known as ladies’ fingers