Jumbo General June 27, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 31, 34 and 52 Across? Connection from #574 Val Doonican, Colin Cowdrey and Tony Orlando had the real first name Michael

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Crossword GK Jumbo 575 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 27, 2020

Across Clues

• In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a fixed reference plane
• Conservation organisation founded in 1895
• The doctrine that the morally correct course of action consists in the greatest good for the greatest number
• The bushy leguminous plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its edible seeds
• The Pope’s tiara
• Member of the fictional Addams Family played by Jackie Coogan in the original TV series and by Christopher Lloyd in the two films
• 1983 Michael Jackson single that reached number 3 in the UK chart
• 1984 science fantasy film starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen
• Any of the early French settlers in Nova Scotia, many of whom were deported to Louisiana in the 18th century
• Fictional fox whose TV stooges included Rodney Bewes, Derek Fowlds and Roy North
• English poet, painter, and printmaker whose works include Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• In rugby, a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feet
• Roman Catholic feast celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
• An omen of death in the form of a black dog in the J K Rowling novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• English singer-songwriter who was a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator
• Non-scientific subjects of study, such as literature and history
• In Homer’s Odyssey, a sea nymph who detained Odysseus on the island of Ogygia for seven years
• The only horse ever to complete the Champion Hurdle/Gold Cup double at Cheltenham
• One of a series of gliding steps in ballet in which the same foot always leads
• Large blood vessel of the neck that returns blood to the heart from the head and face
• A 1972 Number 1 single for T Rex
• Town in the Epping Forest district of Essex in which the TV series Birds of a Feather is set
• Another name for aurora borealis
• A party game in which someone tries to catch and identify the other players without being able to see them
• 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film starring Dirk Bogarde, based on a novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov

Down Clues

• English poet, short story writer and novelist best known for his poem The Listeners
• An imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
• Term for the region straddling the upper NE United States, the Great Lakes and the Midwest States
• Vienna-born psychiatrist considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology alongside Melanie Klein
• Category-A listed building in Ayrshire that was the birthplace of John Dalrymple
• American writer whose novels include The Naked and the Dead
• The derived SI unit of pressure
• Richard ___, German designer who helped to create the teddy bear
• A jelly-like sweet flavoured with flower essences, usually cut into cubes and covered in icing sugar
• Volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean that was Napoleon Bonaparte’s second and final place of exile
• The capital of Zimbabwe, known as Salisbury until 1982
• See 25
• Type of administration of a British overseas territory, such as Hong Kong before the 1997 handover to the Peoples’ Republic of China
• Albert ___, detective created by Margery Allingham in 1929
• A rich velouté sauce made with a base of veal or chicken stock and cream or egg yolks
• 1960s animated Hanna-Barbera TV series whose title character was voiced by Jean Vander Pyl
• Well-known song by Sir Noël Coward from his 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet
• In ancient Greece and Rome, a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with Dionysus
• City in southwest Germany, in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate, that became the largest US garrison outside the United States in the late 1940s
• System of Christian belief that rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ
• See 5
• Chief sheikhdom and capital of the UAE
• Stephen Bishop’s first album, featuring the hit singles On and On and Save It for a Rainy Day
• A dry brown brandy distilled in the French district of Gers
• A group or series of four
• The Icarus ___, 1988 thriller by Robert Ludlum that is the sequel to The Chancellor Manuscript
• Roman god of fire and metalworking whose Greek counterpart is Hephaestus
• See 4
• Leon A ___, Philadelphia soul songwriting and record production partner of Kenneth Gamble on songs such as If You Don’t Know Me by Now, Love Train, and When Will I See You Again