Jumbo General June 15, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 25 and 41 Across? Connection from #520 Amerigo Vespucci, Florence Nightingale and Richard Rogers were born in Florence

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Crossword GK Jumbo 521 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 15, 2019

Across Clues

• Coastal town in North Somerset on the Severn Estuary that is the location of the headquarters of Avon and Somerset Constabulary
• Relationship of Arnold Schoenberg to Alexander Zemlinsky, for example
• The county town of County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland
• See 50
• Vladimir Ilyich ___, first premier of the Soviet Union
• Traditional enemies of the mods in British youth culture
• 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf centring on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye
• The main championship game of American football, held annually in January
• The most sensuous word in the English language, according to Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective
• Tony ___, manager who took charge of Blackburn Rovers in 2017
• 2012 Oliver Stone film based on the novel of the same name by Don Winslow
• Another name for caustic soda
• A garden tool or machine used on lawns to improve soil drainage and encourage worms, microfauna and microflora
• A bird of the family Strigidae
• Character in Virgil’s epic poem the Aeneid who was a brother-in-arms of Hector
• Oscar-winning musical based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp
• Commercial music streaming service launched in Sweden in October 2008
• ___ Monday is the first Monday of the year
• Leather finished with a fine velvet-like nap
• The ___, comic strip, about a team of tiny human-like technicians who live inside heads, that first appeared in The Beezer in 1962
• Rugby League competition last won by Leigh Centurions in 2013
• Capital of the Finistère department of Brittany
• Manager of the Beatles from 1962 to 1967
• ___ of Asha, single by Cornershop that reached number one in the UK chart in 1998
• Character played by Bernard Youens in Coronation Street from 1964 to 1984
• 1981 film starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan
• 1850 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, that is a requiem for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam

Down Clues

• Greek philosopher who held that the highest good is pleasure
• Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart was Cupid
• Michael Jackson single that topped the US and UK charts simultaneously in 1983
• 1968 film in which Tony Curtis starred as Albert DeSalvo
• Bird to which the adjective psittacine relates
• A marine percoid fish of the family Labridae
• See 3
• City in central Iraq on the Euphrates River that is the capital of Babylon Province
• Golf knitwear and clothing company that supplied shirts and knitwear to the European Ryder Cup Team from 1987 to 2014
• A managed colony of birds such as the one at Abbotsbury in Dorset, written records of which go back to 1393
• Indie rock band from Dundee whose debut album, Hats Off to the Buskers, was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize
• Character who marries Estella in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa whose capital is Praia
• A note known as a sixty-fourth note in North America
• The ___ Brothers were the musical duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield
• Kingdom in southern Africa whose capital is Maseru
• American rock band whose best known songs is (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
• Music festival held at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the Catskills in August 1969
• 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in the title role
• A bass tuba that coils over the shoulder of a band musician
• Editor of Private Eye who is also a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for You
• In philately, a design for a stamp submitted to the postal authorities for consideration but not used
• ___ and Gladrags, song written by Mike d’Abo that was used as the theme song of the BBC series The Office
• Another name for a hookah
• Sport based on an activity that was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture
• South American country whose capital is Paramaribo
• American pop rock band comprising three brothers, best known for the 1997 hit MMMBop
• Large town in Greater London that is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Redbridge
• Nicola ___, Italian sculptor noted for his pulpit in the baptistry of Pisa Cathedral
• A crustacean of the order that includes woodlice
• 1996 film starring Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas, loosely based on a short story by James Salter
• Chocolate bar that originated in Sweden and Norway in 1953