Jumbo General May 02, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 21 and 50 Across? Connection from #566 Defender, Mayflower and Rainbow are US vessels that won the America’s Cup

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Crossword GK Jumbo 567 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 02, 2020

Across Clues

• American actor who found fame in the title role of the 1960s TV show Dr Kildare
• Doctor played by Kevin McKidd in Grey’s Anatomy since season five
• 1998 film for which James Coburn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
• The goddess of peace in Greek mythology
• See 46 Down
• 1979 play by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of Mozart and Salieri
• English punk rock band whose name was inspired by a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine
• American golfer who won the 2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National
• Gaelic word meaning “welcome”
• Bassist in Pink Floyd who became their lyricist and conceptual leader after the departure of Syd Barrett in 1968
• Large village in Lancashire on the south bank of the River Ribble, opposite the city of Preston, adjacent to Bamber Bridge
• Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains
• What the M of the condition ME stands for
• King of Mercia and Northumbria (957-975) and of England (959-975)
• A polygon that has eight sides
• The chief executive of any US state
• Senior RAF officer of equivalent rank to a brigadier in the Army
• Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner for The Untouchables
• Doctor Dolittle’s pet pig in the series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting
• See 19
• Well-known song by Sir Noël Coward from his 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet
• A blunt projection in glassware
• See 45
• 1894 opera by Jules Massenet best known for the entr’acte for violin and orchestra Méditation
• American stand-up comedian and actor whose best-known sketches include The Driving Instructor
• See 13
• An abnormal heart rhythm characterised by rapid and irregular beating

Down Clues

• 1991 Ken Loach film starring Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson
• Fomer England defender who returned to Sheffield United in 2019 after 12 years at Everton
• Davy ___, “King of the Wild Frontier” who died at the Battle of the Alamo
• The total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another
• Historical novel by Charles Dickens subtitled A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
• An official permit allowing foreign nationals in the United States permanent residence and employment
• 1978 single by Abba that spent three weeks at number 1 in the UK
• Coarse-grained rock that represents the last stage in the metamorphism of rocks before melting
• A red curly-leaved variety of lettuce
• John ___, clerk to Mr Jaggers and friend of Pip in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations
• See 41
• Explosive material invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in 1875
• Genre of dance music influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines and funk sampling
• 2002 top ten hit single by U2
• Meeting at which spiritualists attempt to receive messages from the spirits of the dead
• Prime Minister of the Netherlands from August 1994 to July 2002
• A thin, plain weave, sheer fabric traditionally made from silk
• 1974 single by George McCrae that topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic
• African American blues singer whose song Alley Boogie was used as the theme music of the BBC series Love Soup
• A medicinal preparation of hydrated magnesium sulphate
• Town on the western shore of Loch Fyne that is the ancestral home to the Duke of Argyll
• 2007 hit song by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
• 1975 hit single by Sweet inspired by an incident at a 1973 gig in Kilmarnock
• In Greek mythology, an immortal winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa
• A dry white burgundy wine from France
• Musical mode represented by the natural diatonic scale C–C (the major scale)
• British singer-songwriter formerly known as Cat Stevens