Jumbo General March 21, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 29 and 48 Across? Connection from #560 Engineer, Grout and Dolphin are surnames of Test wicket-keepers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 561 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 21, 2020

Across Clues

• 1972 Bill Withers single that reached number one in the US
• Football team promoted to the Premier League as 2014-15 Championship winners
• 2001 song by Linkin Park that gave them their biggest US hit
• Mississippi-born American soprano who has won more Grammy Awards than any other classical singer
• US name for rude noises called raspberries in the UK
• Ken ___, US novelist best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• The last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy, described as a “poème dansé”
• See 46
• Welsh poet and essayist whose works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk Wood
• Musical based on John Van Druten’s 1951 play I Am a Camera
• Genus of over 100 herbaceous perennial plants of the Umbelliferae family whose umbels are compound, with bracts few or absent
• Pen name of former Conservative MP Rupert Allason
• Village in Tyne and Wear through which the A1 used to pass and whose colliery was closed by the National Coal Board in 1965
• US novelist and short-story writer whose works include Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away
• See 21
• Formerly, the extinction of a person’s civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
• Fine white clay that takes its name from a Chinese mountain
• Plant widely cultivated for its ornamental leaves and waxy flowers
• William ___, commander of HMS Bounty when the crew mutinied in 1789
• 1978 single by Earth, Wind & Fire that received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Song
• See 28
• 1975 radio play by Terence Rattigan inspired by the 1935 trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover
• Best Actress Oscar-winner for Sophie’s Choice
• Reversion to an earlier, especially worse, state or condition
• 2000 American comedy film narrated by Barry Manilow, played by Tom Green
• Heroine of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch
• The oldest airport in the UK, founded in 1910

Down Clues

• Canadian actor whose films include Point Break, Speed and John Wick
• Prime minister who became Earl of Avon
• City on South Island, New Zealand, that is a regional trading centre for sheep and agricultural products
• The animal Cervus elaphus
• Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot
• Raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean
• The seventh planet from the sun
• French name for the Netherlands
• American musician, songwriter and bandleader whose songs feature in the musical Five Guys Named Moe
• The loss of energy suffered by radiation as it passes through matter, especially as a result of absorption or scattering
• Large gregarious songbird of the genus Corvus
• British actress whose early films include Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and Whistle Down the Wind
• The curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points
• A member of a North American Indian Iroquois people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the St Lawrence River
• California city known as the “Gateway to Yosemite”
• An area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live
• Maxim, also called the principle of economy, stating that in explaining something assumptions must not be needlessly multiplied
• A 1901 painting by Pablo Picasso, a 1998 play by David Hare or a 1999 EP by Coldplay
• Popular song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke whose two best-selling versions were recorded by the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey in 1940
• 1955 film starring Dirk Bogarde and Brigitte Bardot
• Irish film director best known for My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father and The Field
• A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole or a whole for a part
• The second largest of the Channel Islands
• One of the small pieces of which a mosaic is made
• A coniferous tree with dark green scalelike leaves and rounded cones
• Member of a light-haired subdivision of the Turanian people, who include the Samoyeds, Voguls, Ostyaks and Magyars
• Singer born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong in 1971