Jumbo General September 26, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9, 29 and 39 Across? Connection from #587 Ajax, Vitesse and Heracles are Eredivisie (Dutch football league) teams

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Crossword GK Jumbo 588 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 26, 2020

Across Clues

• Popular song by Carl Sigman and Herb Magidson, subtitled It’s Later than You Think
• Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains
• The capital of Poland
• Part of the Countdown studio that houses a lexicographer and a celebrity guest
• American author whose novels included Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant
• US country singer and songwriter whose songs include Jambalaya and Your Cheatin’ Heart
• Shakespeare play set in Ancient Britain and based on legends concerning an early Celtic king
• The capital of the Philippines
• Term used to denote “I have received all of the last transmission” in aviation radio communications
• Regency dandy credited with introducing, and establishing as fashion, the modern men’s suit, worn with a necktie
• Units of distance used in astronomy, equal to 0.3066 parsecs
• Name for a number of coins used in Italy until the 19th century whose name was derived from the Latin for “shield”
• City in which The Simpsons is set
• Lake in Russia that is the second largest lake in Europe
• White waxy substance obtained from a whale’s head, used in cosmetics, candles, ointments, etc
• 1997 British film directed by Peter Cattaneo with a screenplay written by Simon Beaufoy
• In Greek mythology, a female figure said to have been loved by Apollo and bore him Delphos, the eponymous founder of Delphi
• Dorothy L ___, author who created the characters Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
• The goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology
• Actor whose films include Harvey and It’s a Wonderful Life
• The creeping Eurasian rosaceous plant Rubus chamaemorus, which has white flowers and orange drupelets
• 1989 Walt Disney film based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
• A group of over 70 islands off the N coast of Scotland separated from the mainland by the Pentland Firth
• Pietro ___, Italian painter noted especially for his portraits of President Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth II
• A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between the Girondins and the Jacobins

Down Clues

• The occupation or study concerned with the classification of armorial bearings
• George Harrison’s first single as a solo artist; the biggest-selling single in the UK in 1971
• Chemical element with the symbol Au
• The point on the celestial sphere vertically above an observer
• Feathers ___, penguin in the 1993 Nick Park animated short film The Wrong Trousers
• Chemical compound, mainly used for propellants, that reduces hormone production in the thyroid gland
• In Greek mythology, the white-robed incarnations of destiny, often known in English as the Fates
• British physician, theologian and lexicographer best known for publishing a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852
• Business associate of Thomas Gradgrind in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• Anise-flavoured liqueur named after its French inventor who sold it as the “authentic pastis of Marseilles”
• Daily newspaper founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley
• American comedian and silent film actor who reportedly bought an insurance policy, payable if his eyes ever uncrossed
• Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth
• Maya ___, American author and poet best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• European bird also called a yaffle
• English mezzo-soprano and music professor who was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011
• 1979 British war film starring Roger Moore, Telly Savalas and Elliott Gould
• Puppet characters created in 1955 by Jim Henson
• Actress who played Nyssa, a companion to Doctors Tom Baker and Peter Davison in the TV series Doctor Who
• Swedish chemist and philanthropist who invented dynamite
• A soup containing rice noodles that is a popular street food in Vietnam
• Island in the Azores with a military air base
• Character played by fictional actor Rainier Wolfcastle in The Simpsons
• ___ Island is an island in the River Thames at Twickenham that was a major jazz and blues venue in the 1960s
• A finger-shaped cake of choux pastry named from the French for lightning
• See 17
• Fictional brand of beer in The Simpsons