Jumbo General June 22, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 20 and 45 Across? Connection from #521 Portishead, Elbow and Suede have won the Mercury Prize

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Crossword GK Jumbo 522 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 22, 2019

Across Clues

• Author of A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels
• A medical instrument for examining the external ear
• See 31
• Burrhus Frederic ___, American behavioural psychologist who was the father of operant conditioning
• Dialect spoken in Delhi and used as a lingua franca in N India and Pakistan
• The capital of Paraguay
• 1986 film starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, based on the 1974 David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago
• British poet who experimented with sprung rhythm in his work
• A monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhere
• A coniferous tree with dark green scalelike leaves and rounded cones
• Another name for potassium carbonate or potassium hydroxide
• Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised a system of speed measurement
• 1964 number two UK hit single for Andy Williams
• A genus of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae
• The usual North American name for a dinner jacket
• A robot designed to look and act like a human
• A liquorice-flavoured liqueur
• British pop music TV programme that ran from 1961 to 1966
• Author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
• Japanese video game corporation founded as a card company in 1889
• German luger who won gold medals at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics
• Title shared by albums by Italian artists Lucio Dalla, Fabrizio De André, Chiara Civello and Mietta
• Former county town of Meath, home to the largest Cambro-Norman castle in Ireland
• In various countries, the government department in charge of finance
• American dancer who died in 1927 when her silk scarf became entangled in the wheels of a car

Down Clues

• Jean-Bédel ___, emperor of the Central African Empire from 1966 until overthrown in 1979
• See 8
• Character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin
• A distinguishing badge or emblem of military rank, office or membership
• Country whose capital is Kigali
• A place where tin is mined
• Chinese alcoholic drink distilled from fermented sorghum
• 2001 film starring Vinnie Jones as former footballer Danny Meehan
• Former name for Taiwan
• Town in Lincolnshire for whose football team cricketer Ian Botham played
• 1973 British film starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr that took its title from a Buddy Holly hit
• Suburb of Birmingham that produced such notable performers as Steel Pulse, Joan Armatrading and Benjamin Zephaniah
• Central character in a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting
• Labour MP for Vauxhall from 1989 who is a prominent supporter of Brexit
• Name of Igor Stravinsky’s second ballet as it was first performed at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 1911
• The usual US and Canadian name for Friesian cattle
• Board game whose name means leap
• Short-tailed African primate with vertebral spines protruding through the skin in its neck region
• Country whose capital is Damascus
• A hybrid garden primrose with brightly-coloured flowers
• Northern Irish actor whose TV roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones
• 1980 Robert Zemeckis film starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden
• The capital of Venezuela
• In Indian cookery, a method of cooking meat or vegetables in a clay oven
• The eighth planet from the sun
• Supreme commander of a fleet or navy
• Australian term for a con man
• Municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines, noted for its beaches
• William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudes