Jumbo General December 07, 2019 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 32 and 52 Across? Connection from #545 Katharine Hepburn, Galadriel and Elizabeth I have been played by Cate Blanchett in films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 546 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 07, 2019

Across Clues

• See 18
• English pop group formed in Liverpool in 1998 whose original members were Liz McClarnon, Natasha Hamilton and Kerry Katona
• Turner Prize-winning artist who directed the Oscar-winning 2013 film 12 Years a Slave
• Writer and director of the 1987 film Ishtar that stars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman
• Highly-addictive narcotic whose technical name is diamorphine
• Song written by Mac Davis, originally called The Vicious Circle, that gave Elvis Presley a big hit in 1969
• Joni Mitchell’s only UK Top 40 single
• Luxury car launched by Opel in 1964
• 2000 Christopher Nolan film starring Guy Pearce as a man with amnesia
• Grey mineral that is the chief source of lead
• Jorge Luis ___, Argentinian author whose short stories are collected in Ficciones
• Market town in Norfolk on the estuary of the Great Ouse near the Wash
• Painting by Vincent van Gogh that became the most expensive painting ever sold in 1987
• Arthur ___, American tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1975
• Canadian curler who won an Olympic gold medal as skip of the Canadian women’s team at the 2014 Sochi Games
• Starchy cereal obtained from the powdered pith of a palm
• Hilary ___, the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, for the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
• A metal structural bar that has an L-shaped cross section
• A member of a people of central Africa living chiefly in Malawi
• The capital of North Macedonia
• The first of the patriarchs in the Old Testament
• The cultivated variety of cabbage Brassica oleracea italica
• English progressive rock band whose original line-up was Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Peter Banks, Tony Kaye and Bill Bruford
• German-born US conductor who was the first to conduct Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Ninth Symphony
• Black resin obtained from certain South American trees and used medicinally as a muscle relaxant and by South American Indians as an arrow poison
• 1960s American sitcom that led to the popularity of Samantha as a girl’s name
• Album released by John Coltrane’s quartet in 1965
• English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward
• English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1980 and 1989, his only first-class century coming against Leicestershire in 1985

Down Clues

• Texan golfer who won the Open Championship in 1971 and 1972
• Popeye’s love interest in the cartoons created by Elzie Crisler Segar
• Jean-Michel ___, American artist who died of an overdose of “16 Across” in 1988 at the age of 27
• Lighthearted pieces of music generally composed for small ensembles
• German city in Baden-Wurttemberg at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Neckar
• Abba song that gave Sweet Dreams a top ten hit in the UK in 1974
• Another name for coriander
• Former British women’s clothing retailer whose stores were bought by Sir Philip Green in 2005
• A flock of quails, for example
• The first John Lennon single issued after his death in December 1980
• The Japanese art of fencing
• Body of water that drains into the Kattegat via the Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt
• Plant whose forked aromatic roots are used medicinally
• 1888 play by August Strindberg set on Midsummer’s Eve on the estate of a Swedish count
• A rapidly executed series of notes on the harp or piano, each note of which is discretely audible
• Animals such as the chimpanzee, orang-utan and gorilla
• African country whose capital is Nairobi
• Former name for Liverpool John Lennon Airport
• A fine strong silky fabric
• See 48
• Leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976
• English actor, filmmaker and musician who has played Sid Vicious, Joe Orton, Lee Harvey Oswald and Ludwig van Beethoven in films
• In Neighbours, Paul Robinson’s half-sister who died in a hit-and-run incident, played by Perri Cummings
• The capital of the UAE
• 16th-century Onondaga Indian chief, subject of a well-known poem by Longfellow
• French port on the River Garonne associated with wine
• A style of plaiting the hair in narrow strips to form geometric patterns on the scalp
• Real ___, Spanish football team based in Seville
• A vessel or machine in which cream or milk is vigorously agitated to produce butter
• Manager of Liverpool FC from 1959 to 1974
• Texas city associated with a 1993 siege involving the the Branch Davidians