Jumbo General November 09, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 21, 36 and 52 Across? Connection from #541 Robinson, Bloomer and Folsom are maiden names of US first ladies

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Crossword GK Jumbo 542 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 09, 2019

Across Clues

• 1989 legal suspense thriller by John Grisham
• French racing driver who achieved the first of his seven Formula One wins at the 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix
• In Greek mythology, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
• Private detective created by Raymond Chandler in the novel The Big Sleep
• A specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Fein
• A manuscript on which two or more successive texts have been written
• Stage name of the singer Arnold Dorsey who was born in Madras in 1936
• Legendary Swiss patriot compelled by an Austrian governor to shoot an apple from his son’s head
• Of or relating to barbering or hairdressing
• The technical name for alcohol
• State of NE India with the heaviest rainfall in the world
• 1859 novel by Ivan Goncharov
• Peninsula in NW Turkey, between the Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros, that was the scene of an unsuccessful Allied campaign in 1915
• TV presenter who was never booked during his playing career as a footballer
• A popular name for dragonflies
• US TV series that starred Calista Flockhart in the title role
• The tenth highest-grossing film of 2004, directed by Steven Soderbergh
• English director whose films include My Beautiful Laundrette, The Queen and Philomena
• The only UK single released from Echo & the Bunnymen’s 1981 second album, Heaven Up Here
• Krzystof ___, Polish composer whose works include the 1991 opera Ubu Rex
• English novelist and playwright best known for creating Adrian Mole

Down Clues

• 1971 Mike Nichols film starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret and Candice Bergen
• 1933 book by E E Cummings about a trip to the Soviet Union
• Italian city on the Adige River
• The fast-growing North American maple Acer negundo
• A tapelike ornamental trim used in sewing or embroidery, often stiffened with wire
• See 22
• Helicopter traffic reporter for Springfield’s KBBL-TV on The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta
• Drummer in The Muppet Show band, Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem
• The state capital of California
• First name of the Italian driver and entrepreneur who founded the Ferrari motor racing team
• In Greek mythology, a king of Elis whose stables were cleaned as the fifth Labour of Heracles
• A wickerwork basket used to hold fish
• A Jew of German or Eastern European descent
• Indian religion founded by Guru Nanak in the 16th century
• English science fiction author whose works include the Helliconia trilogy
• Another name for lactose
• American golfer who was runner-up at the 1982 Masters when he lost to Craig Stadler in a playoff
• English physicist who predicted the existence of an ionised gaseous layer in the upper atmosphere
• Another name for yarrow
• American actor who made his screen debut in the 1981 film Endless Love
• Madonna’s first hit single
• Jessica ___, actress who won Oscars for Tootsie and Blue Sky
• 1980 hit single by Department S
• A light anchor used in drawing a vessel along by hauling in on a cable
• Scottish golfer who topped the Order of Merit on the Ladies European Tour in 1984 and 1987
• A type of heraldic flag or banner suspended from a crossbar, first adopted by Italian medieval communes
• Joseph ___, British surgeon who introduced the use of antiseptics
• Mother of the first-century Christian bishop Saint Timothy
• Prominent figure in the Sengoku period of Japanese history who married her cousin Kyogoku Takatsugu in 1587
• The capital of Albania
• Another name for taro
• One of the sons of Noah, along with Ham and Japheth
• Surname of the brothers in the pop group Sparks