Jumbo General August 31, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 22, 40 and 49 Across? Connection from #531 Leatherjacket, grenadier and silverside are also fishes

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Crossword GK Jumbo 532 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 31, 2019

Across Clues

• A white grape grown in the Burgundy region of France and elsewhere, used for making wine
• Arthur ___, German pessimist philosopher whose chief work is The World as Will and Idea
• County whose administrative centre is Norwich
• The harmless crystalline deposits that separate from wines during fermentation and aging
• Ancient region on the west coast of Asia Minor that was a powerful kingdom in the century and a half before the Persian conquest in 546 BC
• British writer best known for his Bobby Brewster children’s books
• Billy Joel’s first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single
• The official standard of fineness of British coins
• City that was the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868
• The capital of Hungary
• A Muslim judge, ruler or administrator
• 1941 Hollywood musical starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter
• Noble warriors of Japan who followed a code of rules called bushido
• The poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, used to make the drink that killed Socrates
• The period of human history that began in the Middle East about 1100 BC
• 1885 novel by Sir Henry Rider Haggard
• An ancient city on the north coast of Africa northwest of Carthage
• District of the London Borough of Islington that was home to the largest women’s prison in Europe until 2016
• The main vessel in the arterial network
• E T A ___, German Romantic author whose stories form the basis of an Offenbach opera and ballets by Tchaikovsky and Delibes
• 1937 musical film starring Alice Faye that was remade in 1943 as Cowboy in Manhattan
• A dealer in fabrics and sewing materials, a trade to which H G Wells was apprenticed, inspiring Kipps
• Colourless volatile highly-flammable liquid made by the reaction of sulphuric acid with ethanol
• English city on the River Soar
• A former name for Jakarta
• The spherical area around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape
• English actress best known for the 1987 David Leland film Wish You Were Here

Down Clues

• A shrub or herbaceous plant native to the Mediterranean region depicted on the capital of a Corinthian column
• A small butterfly of the genus Callophrys
• Writer and director of the 1959 film Plan 9 from Outer Space
• In the European Union, a former system of managing a group of currencies by allowing the exchange rate of each to fluctuate within narrow limits
• Thomas ___, English economist who propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population
• In the DC Comics series, the alter ego of Aubrey Sparks and an antagonist of Superman
• The supreme god of the ancient Greeks
• The first Sunday in Lent
• A large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical means
• The capital of Canada
• British celebrity magazine published in the United Kingdom since 1988, sister magazine to the Spanish weekly ¡Hola!
• Song by Mark Barkan that gave Manfred Mann a UK number one in May 1966
• 1972 British film starring Simon Ward in the title role
• American singer associated with the songs Can’t Take My Eyes Off You and Music to Watch Girls By
• A red wine grape and a popular Italian wine made principally from it
• 1991 Alan Parker film adaptation of a novel by Roddy Doyle
• Artificial sports surface invented in 1965 and originally sold under the name ChemGrass
• Marcel ___, French-born US painter and sculptor whose best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
• British mass circulation magazine that incorporated Titbits in 1984 before itself closing in 1989
• Jaroslav ___, Czech novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Good Soldier Schweik
• A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South Asia
• The unlawful killing of one human being by another without malice aforethought
• Nobel prize-winning Russian physiologist best known for his classical conditioning experiments with dogs
• Comic play written by Noël Coward, set in a house at Cookham, Berkshire
• Former province of France whose chief town is Rouen
• The third sign of the zodiac
• Ancient Greek war-galley with three banks of rowers
• Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumage
• 1923 novella by D H Lawrence featuring the characters Nellie March and Jill Banford
• Suze ___, American artist and former girlfriend of Bob Dylan seen walking with him on the cover of his album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
• Another name for the white poplar
• Republic in SE Asia first united as the kingdom of Lan Xang (“million elephants”) in 1353