Jumbo General October 19, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 33 and 53 Across? Connection from #538 Naples, Orlando and Melbourne are cities in Florida

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Crossword GK Jumbo 539 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 19, 2019

Across Clues

• French Ligue 1 football club nicknamed Les Rouge-et-Bleu
• Wolf featured in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books
• 1970 Stephen Sondheim nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards
• Youngest son of Sir Roland de Boys in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
• Genus of ferns commonly known as cliff ferns
• City in what is now modern Turkey visited by Saint Paul in 48 and 51 AD
• Historic building at 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, that was the first home of the Liberty Bell
• Eight-day Jewish festival beginning on Nisan 15, also called the Feast of the Unleavened Bread
• Novel by H Rider Haggard published in 1905 as a sequel to She
• Leader, with his brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain
• Father of Hermia in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Technical name for the eardrum
• U2’s second album
• Football club founded as Dial Square in 1886
• Former state of NW India that became part of Rajasthan in 1947
• Coronation Street character played by Tina O’Brien
• River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that gave its name to a deadly virus
• Ancient system of writing generally accepted as being an early representation of Mycenaean Greek
• Flying island in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
• Another name for ascorbic acid
• Song by Irving Fields and Jack Edwards, subtitled Where The Rum Come From, recorded by Edmundo Ros & His Rumba Band, Lord Messam & His Calypsonians, and others
• The capital of Greece
• Amelia ___, aviation pioneer who went missing during a flight in 1937
• Jan ___, Dutch painter who shared a studio with Rembrandt from about 1626 to 1631
• Usual English name for the football club founded by Englishmen Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards in Italy in 1899
• Racecourse founded in 1711 by Queen Anne
• 1999 Fatboy Slim single that reached Number 2 in the UK

Down Clues

• 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film based on Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness
• TV drama series created by Lynda La Plante and starring Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison
• The largest continent
• The sepals of a flower collectively
• Prometheus ___, four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1820
• Metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive
• Conservative prime minister, 1957-63, who became 1st Earl of Stockton
• The North American euphorbiaceous plant Euphorbia marginata
• The second largest city in Pakistan
• Jane Austen novel whose central character is Anne Elliot
• In Christian theology, the Holy Spirit as advocate or counsellor
• 1975 David Bowie single that appeared on the Station to Station album the following year
• 1977 TV miniseries in which LeVar Burton played Kunta Kinte
• Animated TV series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network in 1996
• In Hinduism, the consort of Vishnu
• Opera by Vincenzo Bellini first produced at La Scala in 1831
• Constituent part of the University of Cambridge founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I
• 1987 film starring Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt
• The oldest Portuguese city
• A white crystalline volatile solid used in mothballs and in the manufacture of dyes, explosives, etc
• 1987 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan that was the first film to be commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival
• Jump-suited “skyrunner” of Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt from 1983 to 1988
• Fluid transported in xylem cells or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant
• See 50
• 1957 top ten hit for Frank Sinatra, a song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn from the film The Joker Is Wild
• Character in the Aeneid who participates in a trial of skill in which he shoots an arrow which then bursts into flames
• The second-highest ranking suit in bridge
• The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism
• English poet whose verse collections include No Fool like an Old Fool and The Young Pobble’s Guide to His Toes
• Friedrich ___, German mineralogist who gave his name to a hardness scale