Jumbo General November 02, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 24 and 48 Across? Connection from #540 Horatio Nelson, James Thurber and Gordon Brown lost the sight in an eye

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Crossword GK Jumbo 541 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 02, 2019

Across Clues

• A sheep that leads the herd
• French actor whose American films included Algiers, Love Affair and Gaslight
• Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crest
• The oldest Greek colony in Italy, founded about 750 BC near Naples
• 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk
• Rob ___, actor, director and producer whose directing credits include When Harry Met Sally…, The Princess Bride and This Is Spinal Tap
• Dr Seuss character played by Jim Carrey in a 2000 film
• 1973 play by Peter Shaffer about a young man who has a pathological fascination with horses
• In baseball, a player who bats in place of the pitcher
• Constellation whose brightest star is Altair
• A medium-sized loaf that is glazed and notched on top
• Egon ___, painter and draughtsman who was a leading exponent of Austrian expressionism
• See 15
• Market town in Scotland on the River Lossie that is the administrative centre of Moray
• Unofficial title used for the wife of the President of the United States
• One of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and Aramis
• City in Apulia, Italy, that was the seat of Emperor Frederick II
• Genus of grasses with about 30 species cultivated for grain, hay and as a source of syrup
• A crisp lustrous plain-weave fabric used for ball gowns, wedding dresses and soft furnishings
• A stable, positively charged elementary particle
• 1993 Adrian Lyne film starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson
• German river that empties into the North Sea at Bremerhaven
• Henry ___, German-born US academic and diplomat who shared the Nobel peace prize in 1973
• City in Sacramento County, California, best known for its prison, made famous by concerts performed there by Johnny Cash
• Song by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn sung by Doris Day in her film debut, Romance on the High Seas, and which later became the theme song of her Hollywood radio series
• Gordon ___, character played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel
• A lightly armed escort warship
• A steeplechase usually restricted to amateurs riding horses that have been regularly used in hunting
• Knighted English theatre, film and television director whose wives have included actresses Janet Suzman and Imogen Stubbs

Down Clues

• Paolo ___, Italian painter of the Renaissance born Paolo Caliari
• Band featuring Midge Ure that had a UK number one single in 1976 with Forever and Ever
• The fifth book of the Old Testament
• An instrument for varying an electric resistance
• A herbaceous plant such as Atriplex hortensis, which has greyish-green lobed leaves and inconspicuous flowers
• US TV crime drama series that starred William Conrad as prosecutor J L McCabe
• George Bush’s first White House Chief of Staff, serving from 1989 to 1991
• 1977 single and album by David Bowie
• Town in France that was the scene of a 1917 battle in which massed tanks were first used
• A crossbred hunting dog, usually a greyhound crossed with a collie
• Movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian’s 1942 ballet Gayane that gave Love Sculpture a hit single in the UK in 1968
• The capital of Kenya
• 1939 western in which Marlene Dietrich performs the song See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have
• Original title given by Beethoven to his opera Fidelio
• David ___, the main character and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson’s books Kidnapped and Catriona
• Singer-songwriter and composer whose albums include Poses and Release the Stars
• 2005 film starring Will Smith in the title role
• African country whose capital is Cairo
• A plant with leaves divided into three leaflets
• See 25
• Song by Bob Dylan, from his 1970 album New Morning, that gave Olivia Newton-John a hit single in the UK in 1971
• The garden in Jerusalem where Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion
• Another name for the edible mushroom Coprinopsis atramentaria
• An insect of the orthopterous family Gryllidae
• Prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age, subject of a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare
• 1941 novel by Alberto Moravia that was banned by the Italian Fascist regime
• Term for a rower at Eton
• 1881 play by Henrik Ibsen whose original Danish title is Gengangere
• River that rises in County Cavan and flows to Donegal Bay