Jumbo General April 11, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13, 33 and 51 Across? Connection from #563 The Hours, The Shipping News and Ironweed won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Crossword GK Jumbo 564 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 11, 2020

Across Clues

• Chris ___, British cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Olympics
• English composer who wrote operettas with W S Gilbert
• Spanish surrealist artist whose works include The Persistence of Memory
• Harvey ___, American businessman who founded an eponymous ‘Tire and Rubber’ company in 1900
• Sicilian volcano that is the highest in Europe
• 1676 play by Aphra Behn subtitled Sir Timothy Tawdrey
• A run not scored off the bat in cricket
• The periodic shedding of the cuticle in insects and other arthropods or the outer epidermal layer in reptiles
• One of the songs Elton John performed the song on the first series of The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1971
• Small city that is capital of the Grand Port District of Mauritius
• See 24
• David ___, UK prime minister from 2010 to 2016
• Ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki
• Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 US Presidential election
• New Zealand-born British novelist best known for The Herries Chronicle
• See 43
• Formerly in India, a term of respect used of a European married woman
• Football club supported by Elton John
• A language of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
• Nursery rhyme character who could eat no fat
• Elementary particle with a mass 207 times that of an electron
• American tennis player who became the youngest male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989
• See 32
• Port in Hampshire nicknamed Pompey
• 1966 Broadway musical by Jerry Herman
• Best Actress Oscar-winner for Klute and Coming Home
• Song from the musical Oliver! after which a 2008 BBC reality TV series was named
• Title of the first episode of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister
• Port in South Holland province that has the world’s tallest windmills

Down Clues

• See 44
• A book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily in the Roman Catholic Church
• ___ in the UK, debut single by the Sex Pistols
• Island of Indonesia whose capital is Jakarta
• Henry Engelhard ___, German-born founder of an eponymous piano company in New York City in 1853
• Strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz
• A collection of sixty-three poems by A E Housman published in 1896
• An explosive device that throws out a number of smaller projectiles when it explodes
• In classical mythology, a princess of Tyre who founded Carthage
• English trio whose debut album yielded the 1984 hit singles Closest Thing to Heaven and Respect Yourself
• The south of France
• British motorcycle company founded by German immigrant Siegfried Bettmann in Coventry
• John Wayne’s single line in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The seventh sign of the zodiac
• 1963 film starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
• Style of music composed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, marked by the establishment of sonata form
• Breed of dog named after the home of the Dukes of Newcastle
• A Comedy ___, Channel 4 series hosted by Jimmy Carr
• See 52
• Latin term denoting legal work undertaken without charge
• See 20
• The cruellest month, according to T S Eliot’s poem The Waste Land
• Principal pipes supplying properties with H20
• The palmlike plant, Carludovica palmata, whose leaves are bleached for making panama hats
• Olivier ___, French musician and organist whose works include the Turangalila-Symphonie
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for The African Queen
• Andrew ___, cricketer who captained England to a 2–1 victory in the 2009 Ashes
• See 20
• Series of computer games, the first of which, published in 1997, was subtitled The Fallen Lords
• 1925 musical comedy whose songs include Tea for Two and I Want to Be Happy
• Graeme ___, Scottish snooker player who won the 2006 World Championship