Jumbo General October 12, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 35 and 47 Across? Connection from #537 Panama, tuxedo and bikini are named after places

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Crossword GK Jumbo 538 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 12, 2019

Across Clues

• The third largest city in Italy
• Berkshire town represented by Theresa May as MP from 1997
• Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36
• The cheapest accommodation on a passenger ship
• BBC sci-fi series first broadcast in 1963
• State in India whose capital is Kolkata
• A tropical plant of the genus Saintpaulia
• Fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in an MGM film series from 1937 to 1946
• See 17
• A corrugated steel military shelter of semicircular cross section
• See 55
• David Copperfield’s second wife in the novel by Charles Dickens
• English county whose administrative centre is Carlisle
• See 52
• Musical piece originally composed by Alberto Domínguez for the marimba that gave Artie Shaw a Billboard number one in 1940
• 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf, subtitled A Biography, based in part on the life of Vita Sackville-West
• Colour of home shirts worn by Manchester City and Coventry City
• 1955 Satyajit Ray film, the first of the Apu trilogy
• Bootsie and ___, TV series that featured Clive Dunn, Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser
• A preserve made by boiling the pulp and rind of citrus fruits, especially oranges, with sugar
• The ___ Quartet are a San Francisco-based string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973
• The second largest Australian city, capital of Victoria state
• The first James Bond film to star Roger Moore
• American comedian who played ‘Joliet’ Jake Blues in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers
• 1989 TV comedy drama series starring David Jason as Ted Simcock, based on books by David Nobbs
• 2nd-century Roman writer noted for his romance The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety
• TV commentator and presenter who played on eight Ryder Cup teams
• Decapod crustacean of the genus Pagurus that inhabits the empty shells of whelks and similar molluscs
• The capital of Turkey

Down Clues

• 1664 comedy by Molière
• 1959 Walt Disney film based on the fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault
• Surname of Captain Hook’s right-hand man in Peter Pan
• Former tourist attraction in Berkshire that has been converted into a Legoland
• 1965 hit single by Fontella Bass
• A genus of 67 species of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae
• The capital of Australia’s Northern Territory
• A drink made with advocaat and lemonade
• Bug of the family Miridae, most of which feed on plant tissues, causing damage to crops
• An extensive anchorage in the Orkney Islands that was a major British naval base in both World Wars
• A sleeveless type of jerkin that is usually quilted
• Port in Italy that is capital of Veneto region
• 1955 William Wyler film starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March, based on a novel and play of the same name by Joseph Hayes
• A small parasitic arachnid of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae
• 1989 film about the Profumo affair starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt
• John ___, English actor best known for his role in the 1953 film Genevieve in which he starred with Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan and Kay Kendall
• Max ___, German artist who married Peggy Guggenheim in 1942
• 1956 British biopic about aviator Douglas Bader starring Kenneth More
• Song by Leonard Cohen that has been covered by John Cale, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, k d lang, Alexandra Burke and others
• Russian port on the Kama River known as Molotov between 1940 and 1962
• Spongy vascular organ situated near the stomach
• Austrian motor-racing driver who was world champion in 1975, 1977 and 1984
• Sweet, wine-based French aperitif first sold in 1846
• City and port in Spain on the Costa Blanca whose features include the Castle of Santa Bárbara
• A published announcement of a death, from the Latin for ‘to fall’
• A French-built anti-ship missile
• ___ Off, 1982 play by Michael Frayn that contains the play-within-a-play Nothing On
• Opera by Vincenzo Bellini first produced at La Scala in 1831
• Group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest