Jumbo General September 05, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 24 and 42 Across? Connection from #584 Merlin, Cougar and Maverick are Top Gun nicknames

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Crossword GK Jumbo 585 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 05, 2020

Across Clues

• A watertight chamber used for carrying out construction work under water
• 1923 collection of poetry by Khalil Gibran
• Verdi opera first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo in 1871
• 1967 debut album by Arlo Guthrie, whose title track inspired a 1969 film directed by Arthur Penn
• Bear mascot of the BBC’s Children in Need
• In Greek mythology, an immortal winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa
• Irish writer whose only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Surname of the family living at Longbourn in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
• Opera by Puccini based on a play by Victorien Sardou
• A skullcap worn by orthodox male Jews
• Bizet opera based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée
• Red giant star that has the traditional name Menkar
• Richard ___, popular American children’s author and illustrator who published over 300 books, such as the Best Word Book Ever
• The theme song for both the movie and TV series M*A*S*H
• English slang derived from the Lingua Franca of Mediterranean ports, brought to England by sailors from the 16th century onwards
• The creature Alopex lagopus, whose fur is dark grey in the summer and white in the winter
• The firm white fibrous membrane that forms the outer covering of the eyeball
• Trotskyist group which followed entryist tactics within the British Labour Party until the early 1990s
• Léo Delibes opera in three acts to a libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille
• Lenin’s middle name
• Opera by Giuseppe Verdi originally titled Violetta, after the main character
• Sir Anthony ___, Flemish artist who was court painter to Charles I of England
• Tall treelike fast-growing grass with hollow woody-walled stems with ringed joints and edible young shoots
• The bird Haliaetus albicilla, also called an erne
• Stage surname of the English actress born Diana Fluck
• Concert overture by Edward Elgar subtitled Alassio
• 1995 film starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence

Down Clues

• American soccer player, the first ever to score three goals in a FIFA Women’s World Cup final
• In Greek mythology, a beautiful girl loved by Eros
• The first Christian Roman emperor, who moved his capital to Byzantium, which he renamed
• In Egyptian mythology, a moon deity, scribe of the gods and protector of learning and the arts
• Narcotic drug extracted from the unripe seed capsules of a poppy
• Venomous elapid of the genus Micrurus
• 1886 children’s book by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, under the pen name Susan Coolidge
• Swiss canton whose capital is Lausanne
• Parasitic creatures of the class Cestoda
• Richard ___, American painter and printmaker awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1991
• Primate found in Madagascar and surrounding islands
• British designer, 1925-85, who built up a successful chain of retail stores selling dresses and fabrics based on traditional patterns
• The second daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare’s play
• An extensive grassy plain, usually without trees
• A person who studies or collects coins or medals
• A harlequin’s double lath in pantomime that makes a loud noise
• Queen of France, 1774-93, by marriage to Louis XVI
• King of Wessex from 871 to 899, known as “the Great”
• General name for certain ships used by the major European trading powers from the 17th to 19th centuries, some of which were known as “tea clippers”
• John ___, American composer of classical music who has won the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammies and an Oscar
• Faint constellation between Ursa Major and Cepheus, also called the Dragon
• Croatian tennis player who won the women’s singles title at the French Open in 1997
• John Lennon song released as a single by the Plastic Ono Band in 1969
• Very light wood of the tree Ochroma lagopus
• George ___, English narrative poet who wrote The Village and The Borough
• A winning point for a perfectly executed technique in judo
• Country whose capital is Port-au-Prince
• See 1
• The lowest adult male voice