Jumbo General March 28, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17, 34 and 53 Across? Connection from #561 Leontyne Price, Flannery O’Connor and Meryl Streep had the real first name Mary

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Crossword GK Jumbo 562 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 28, 2020

Across Clues

• Song written by Bob Merrill that gave Rosemary Clooney a UK number one hit in 1955
• A vector-based arcade video game released by Atari in 1979
• Peter ___, English journalist and political commentator who was President of YouGov from 2007 to 2016
• The second compartment of the stomach of ruminants
• Dance whose styles include Casino and Cali-style
• 2002 film, based on a true story, featuring Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia
• The first single by The Cranberries, released in 1992
• Liam ___, Yorkshire fast bowler who played 9 Tests and 27 ODIs for England between 2005 and 2007
• Radio astronomy observatory on the Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico, officially renamed after Karl G Jansky in 2012
• Southern tributary of the Danube in the region of Upper Swabia in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Town on the Isle of Man that is the home of the island’s only cathedral
• 1962 number one hit instrumental by The Tornados, produced by Joe Meek
• The capital of Bulgaria
• The weight that must be carried by a horse in a handicap race
• Organisms that do not require free oxygen or air for respiration
• ___ Records, American record label founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, whose biggest selling recording artist was Whitney Houston
• 1961 British comedy horror film starring Sid James and Kenneth Connor, released in the US as No Place Like Homicide
• A large aquatic bird of the genus Cygnus or Coscoroba
• River that flows into the Great Ouse to the south of Ely at Pope’s Corner
• Channel 4 TV programme first broadcast in January 2005, narrated by comedian Dave Lamb
• National airline whose main hub is Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
• German city and spa for which the French name is Aix-la-Chapelle
• 1964 musical based on stories by Sholem Aleichem
• Shrub or small tree of the genus Syringa
• Geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula considered to include parts of six countries, including Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and parts of the former Yugoslavia
• The state capital of New Jersey
• In Norse mythology, the ash tree that was thought to overshadow the world
• 1941 novel by James M Cain made into an Oscar-winning 1945 film of the same name starring Joan Crawford

Down Clues

• Barbara ___, activist who was President of the National Secular Society from 1971 to 1996
• English actress whose films include The Girl on the Train, Mary Poppins Returns and A Quiet Place
• Adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and André Previn who married Woody Allen in 1997
• Bird also known as Mother Carey’s chicken
• Louis ___, French aviator and aeronautical engineer who made the first flight across the English Channel
• An acknowledgment that a scoring hit has been made in a fencing competition
• Former Beatle whose real first name is James
• An epidermal pore that controls the passage of gases into and out of a plant
• British soap opera set in a fictional motel in the Midlands
• King of England killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest
• Piece of legislation from 1701 prompted by the failure of King William III, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne to produce any surviving children
• Boris ___, Russian chess player who was world champion from 1969 to 1972
• The marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings
• In law, the body of a statute, containing the enacting clauses
• 1905 novel by H G Wells subtitled The Story of a Simple Soul
• The flowering plant Lysimachia nemorum of the family Primulaceae
• A deficiency in the number of red blood cells or in their haemoglobin content
• English actor whose TV roles include Egg in This Life and Simon in Teachers
• The science of drugs, including their characteristics and uses
• Jochen ___, the only driver to posthumously win the Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship
• Celtic tribe whom Boudica led in an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire
• The season of Epiphany
• Irish singer, from a well-known musical family, who played Sharon Rabbitte in the 1991 film The Commitments
• Order of insects which includes beetles and weevils
• Town in West Sussex designated a new town in 1956
• Gout of the foot or big toe
• The capital of Tanzania
• A drug that causes vomiting
• A very small big-eared nocturnal fox inhabiting deserts of N Africa and Arabia
• North American Mennonite sect featured in the 1985 Peter Weir film Witness