Jumbo General April 04, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 32 and 59 Across? Connection from #562 Salsa, arista and macedonia might be found on an Italian menu

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Crossword GK Jumbo 563 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 04, 2020

Across Clues

• 2002 Stephen Daldry film starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore
• Leading English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods
• Charles ___, supposed author and leading character of George and Weedon Grossmith’s novel The Diary of a Nobody
• 1979 number one single by the Boomtown Rats inspired by an incident at an Elementary School in San Diego
• University city in central Germany on the river Saale
• Country whose capital is Conakry
• A popular British bidding system in bridge named after a London club
• The state capital of Massachusetts
• Ford car model manufactured in Europe from 1968 to 2004
• In rowing, the oarsman who sits nearest the stern of a shell
• The capital of Taiwan
• Juan Manuel ___, Argentine racing driver who won the World Championship five times between 1951 and 1957
• Legendary British city in Arthurian legends that is the home of Elaine
• Luchino ___, Italian director whose films include Ossessione, The Leopard and Death in Venice
• 2001 Lasse Hallström film starring Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore and Judi Dench
• Area of Cardiff, birthplace of Shirley Bassey and Ryan Giggs
• Mexican food item whose name literally means ‘young donkey’
• A herbaceous plant or small shrub of the genus Atriplex
• The largest US state
• The fibrous interior of the fruit of the dishcloth gourd, which is used as a bath sponge
• Huge stone statue built by the ancient Egyptians with the body of a lion and the head of a man
• Trading name of America’s National Railroad Passenger Corporation
• US state whose capital is Des Moines
• 1996 Wes Craven film starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore and David Arquette
• The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
• Stage name of the American musician, singer-songwriter and artist Don Van Vliet
• Any one of the two or more possible forms of a gene
• Hungarian-born US newspaper publisher who established prizes that bear his name
• 1987 Héctor Babenco film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep

Down Clues

• The large aquatic bird Cygnus cygnus
• Tennessee city immortalised in a 1941 Glenn Miller song
• A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
• Acetylsalicylic acid
• The predatory canine mammal, Canis latrans, also called a prairie wolf
• See 56
• 1958 film starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant
• Department of France whose capital is Metz
• Former Radio 1 deejay whose mid-morning show featured Our Tune
• Former Hampshire, Leicestershire and West Indies fast bowler who twice took seven wickets in a Test match innings
• 1987 album by Michael Jackson
• Former name, until 1976, of Ho Chi Minh City
• American country singer-songwriter and actress whose songs include I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5
• Egyptian deity whose feminine counterpart was Seshat
• A native people of Rwanda and Burundi
• 1985 horror film written by Stephen King comprising three stories: Quitters, Inc, The Ledge and General
• 1819 novel by Sir Walter Scott
• Much-covered ballad by John Coltrane, composed for his 1960 album Giant Steps and named after his wife
• Golf clubs with bulbous heads, such as drivers and brassies
• American actor whose films include Platoon and The Last Temptation of Christ
• A spring that discharges steam and hot water
• Song by The Everly Brothers that topped the charts for several weeks in 1960 on both sides of the Atlantic
• Cockerel appearing in fables about Reynard The Fox, such as The Nun’s Priest’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Deep Purple’s highest charting UK single
• The beetle Anthonomus grandis that destroys cotton
• Metallic element whose atomic number is 41
• Thick muscle forming the rounded contour of the outer edge of the shoulder and acting to raise the arm
• In yoga, any of the seven major energy centres in the body
• James ___, Scottish actor whose films include The Last King of Scotland and Atonement
• Billy ___, fictional character who replaced The Country Cuzzins in The Beano in 1964
• British punk band whose members included Ari Up and Palmolive