Jumbo General April 25, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 20, 33 and 52 Across? Connection from #565 Sam Neill, Jonathan Pryce and Orson Welles have played Cardinal Wolsey

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Crossword GK Jumbo 566 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 25, 2020

Across Clues

• Johnson & Johnson’s first product for infants, dating back to 1893
• Finding by a coroner’s jury of death without stating the cause
• A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse’s knee
• City in British Columbia that is Canada’s chief Pacific port
• An ancient alphabetical writing system used by the Celts in Britain and Ireland
• High-quality thread from the Gossypium barbadense plant grown off South Carolina
• Aromatic Eurasian plant whose pungent leaves are used as seasoning
• Arcade video game released in 1981 in which the object was to destroy alien invaders while protecting astronauts on the landscape from abduction
• Bitter fruit of the tree Citrus aurantium which is used to make marmalade
• A region of high human population density defined by the US Census Bureau that ignores local administrative boundaries
• See 39
• Earl of Mercia who was the husband of Lady Godiva
• Guyanese musician and actor who played Jules Tavernier in EastEnders from 1990 to 1997
• In Britain, another name for hawthorn, cowslip or marsh marigold
• 1938 satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh set in the world of foreign correspondence
• City in New Mexico famous for a 1947 ‘UFO incident’ that has given rise to several conspiracy theories
• Family of Italian violin makers active in Cremona in the 16th and 17th centuries
• 1937 Marx Brothers film that gave its name to a 1976 album by Queen
• 1980 Ken Russell film adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky’s only novel
• In the line-crossing ceremony initiation rite, name for a sailor who has not crossed the Equator
• Italian port that is capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region
• Song by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman that gave Dion and the Belmonts a Top Ten hit in 1959
• See 32
• Scottish soft rock band fronted by Marti Pellow
• Children’s TV series, 1972-92, whose characters included Bungle, Zippy and George
• A 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan
• 1967 Top Ten hit for The Hollies

Down Clues

• Opera by Giuseppe Verdi about a Shakespearean character, premiered at La Scala in 1893
• The largest city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon
• Brazil’s chief inland port
• French New Wave film director whose works include Jules et Jim and Le Dernier Metro
• One of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion
• 1995 Mike Figgis film for which Nicolas Cage won a Best Actor Oscar
• Welsh composer, singer and actor who wrote Keep the Home Fires Burning
• See 11
• Karl Adolf ___, Austrian Nazi official who escaped to Argentina after World War II but was captured and executed in 1962
• Welsh show jumper who was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1960
• American singer-songwriter whose albums included Through Rose Colored Glasses and The Musician
• An assessor employed by an insurance company to evaluate compensation to be paid
• English folk singer and fiddler who since 1995 has mostly worked in a duo with James Fagan, whom she married in 2007
• Sponge cake containing raspberry jam and cream
• Home ground of Southend United
• 1987 Adrian Lyne film starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer
• The ___, birthday tradition in various countries often administered with ‘one for luck’
• Home to ___, ITV sitcom that starred John Thaw as Henry Willows
• The bird Bubo capensis of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
• Aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia whose leaves trap minute aquatic animals
• Pattern of condensation made by the exhaust of an aircraft engine
• Belgian port on the River Scheldt
• The traditional number of members of a coven
• The honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum
• 1987 film starring Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne and Jodie Foster
• Stage direction from the Latin for “they go out”
• 1976 action movie starring Burt Reynolds that was also his directorial debut
• The westernmost and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii