Jumbo General May 09, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 19, 25 and 35 Across? Connection from #567 Richard Chamberlain, Roger Waters and Bob Newhart have George as a first name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 568 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 09, 2020

Across Clues

• French artist whose paintings include Olympia
• The parliament of the Republic of Ireland
• The 2006 FIFA World Cup winners
• Large university town and unitary authority area in Berkshire
• Area of south Devon protected by National Park status
• English singer-songwriter whose top 10 hit singles include Single, These Words and Unwritten
• 1923 play by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, based on the short story of the same name by W Somerset Maugham
• Eurasian liliaceous plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten
• Village in South Yorkshire whose colliery was the site of a major confrontation between miners and police officers in 1984
• Denis ___, Belgian international defender who joined Fulham from Lokeren in 2016
• Bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other birds
• Hungarian-born actress whose 1950s films include Operation Amsterdam and Ten Thousand Bedrooms
• The final honours examinations of the School of Literae Humaniores or of Modern Philosophy at Oxford University
• The first premier of the Soviet Union
• Swiss city that is home to the International Red Cross and the World Health Organization
• A small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, with an active volcano
• A small yellow finch noted for its singing
• A cut of meat from a pig, created from the tissue along the top of the rib cage
• Leader of the thirteen demons who guard Bolgia Five of the eighth circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno
• One of two or more words pronounced differently but spelt the same
• See 36
• 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of 15-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr
• A card game in which two or more punters gamble against the banker
• Tree or shrub of the genus Cornus, especially Cornus sanguinea
• In heraldry, an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across a shield, wider than a bar
• Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner for her role in West Side Story
• Male tennis player who has won the most Grand Slam singles titles

Down Clues

• International yachting regatta that was for many years the unofficial world championship of offshore racing
• The North American name for swede
• River that rises in the Altai Mountains in China and flows to join the Ob River in Russia as its chief tributary
• In fencing, a call to adopt a defensive stance in readiness for an attack or bout
• A small ornamented case for holding needles and other small articles
• The 1969 solo studio album debut of Cream bassist and singer Jack Bruce
• City in Tennessee established in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project
• One of the sons of Noah, along with Ham and Japheth
• Porcelain created in a manufactory established in Naples in 1743
• The large black-and-white African carrion-eating stork Leptoptilos crumeniferus
• See 19
• British opera singer and actor best known for playing J R Hartley in a classic Yellow Pages commercial
• Southern African dog breed once known as Van Rooyen’s lion dog
• Superfamily within Hymenoptera that comprises bees and sphecoid wasps
• Presenter of the Sunday morning sports programme Sportsweek on Radio 5 Live for 20 years until September 2019
• An obsolete unit of liquid capacity equal to 16 or 18 Imperial gallons
• A tree of the genus Ulmus
• Scottish site of a massacre of Macdonalds by Campbells and English troops in 1692
• A Maori social gathering
• Region of SW Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
• 2004 number one single by The Streets
• Component of fertilisers and explosives, also known as potassium nitrate
• A sweet biscuit made of ground almonds, sugar and egg whites
• South American country whose capital is Quito
• Shrub of the genus Elaeagnus with an olive-like fruit
• 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring Albert Finney in the title role
• King of Wessex who defeated the attempted Viking conquest
• Italian informal word for hello or goodbye
• Department of SW France whose capital is Auch