Jumbo General February 01, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 31 and 45 Across? Connection from #553 Cecil Day-Lewis, J K Rowling and Edith Pargeter wrote detective fiction under a different name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 554 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 01, 2020

Across Clues

• The capital of Albania
• 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film with a dramatic conclusion at Mount Rushmore
• The religious system of a church founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866
• Stick man cartoon character created by Giles Andreae
• An incised die used to make a design in relief
• 1945 children’s novel by E B White about a talking mouse
• 1989 film about the Profumo affair starring Joanne Whalley and John Hurt
• The most watched TV show in the United States from 1989 to 1990
• A former name for influenza
• Hebrew prophet persecuted for denouncing Ahab and Jezebel
• The immature fruit of any of various cucumbers after which the London building at 30 St Mary Axe is nicknamed
• See 42
• Rudolf ___, Prague-born composer whose best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King
• Area in London that is home to Portobello Road Market
• US poet of the Beat Generation who appears in the opening segment of D A Pennebaker’s film, Dont Look Back
• Insect of the genus Calliphora, also called a bluebottle
• See 15
• A straight line that cuts a curve at one or more places
• Naiad who became one with Hermaphroditus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• French underwater explorer who co-developed the aqualung and pioneered marine conservation
• 1987 black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson
• Small marine food fish of the herring family
• French fashion designer made Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 2000
• 1994 Ang Lee film that received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
• 1980 Average White Band song that gave Louise a top ten hit in 1987
• A medical condition in which patches of skin become rough and inflamed with blisters which cause itching and bleeding

Down Clues

• The seventh month of the year in the Jewish calendar
• Country whose capital is Islamabad
• The art of compiling or drawing maps or charts
• Canadian province with the largest population
• Port in Brittany that is France’s chief naval station
• Linford ___, 1992 Olympic men’s 100m champion
• American actress, director and screenwriter married to actor Cary Grant from 1965 to 1968
• American humorist whose short film How to Sleep won Best Short Subject at the 1935 Oscars
• 1991 Lewis Gilbert film starring Liza Minnelli
• Tristan und ___, opera by Richard Wagner largely based on a romance by Gottfried von Strassburg
• 1970 US number one single for Edwin Starr
• Athletic contest featuring swimming, cycling and running
• US actor who played Flight Lieutenant Phil Carrington in the 1970s BBC TV series Colditz
• Large town in Northern Ireland near to the mouth of the River Bann
• Another name for a calumet
• Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were a major factor in the Industrial Revolution
• Belgian novelist who created the detective Maigret
• The Japanese art of fencing
• Van ___, American actor who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Johnny Eager
• Market town in the Teignbridge District of Devon that has a racecourse
• English comedian, TV presenter, singer and actor who won the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Musical Actor for Jolson
• R M ___, Scottish author whose children’s books include The Coral Island
• Terry ___, Australian bowler who took 42 Test wickets, including nine on his debut, in the Ashes series in England in 1981
• French for fourteen
• An exceptionally hard mineral found in certain igneous rocks, especially the kimberlites of South Africa
• See 19
• In Hinduism, social custom regarded as a religious and moral duty
• Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36
• German town associated with the 1870 dispatch from Bismarck that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War