Jumbo General October 03, 2020 Answers

Welcome on our Website! In this website we post daily answers and solutions for The Independent Jumbo General Crosswords. Below is the list of clues and answers for The Independent Jumbo General October 03, 2020.

Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 29 and 47 Across? Connection from #588 Enjoy Yourself, Light Years and Aphrodite are Kylie Minogue albums

Clicking on the crossword clue will open a page with clue answer.

Crossword GK Jumbo 589 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 03, 2020

Across Clues

• Organisation for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history founded in 1788, named after a Swedish naturalist
• Fruit of the evergreen rutaceous tree Citrus paradisi
• Type of mental representation introduced by Edward Tolman in 1948
• 1966 William Wyler comedy film starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach and Hugh Griffith
• See 45
• 1931 Western that was Best Picture at the fourth Academy Awards
• Character in Brookside played by Betty Alberge from 1983 to 1985
• 1980 single that was Dexys Midnight Runners’ first UK number one
• Tree of the genus Salix
• 1987 film starring Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton, featuring music by Tangerine Dream
• The heavily fortified central tower or keep of a medieval castle
• Professional body formed in 1980 from the merger of four scientific institutions
• Country whose capital is Amman
• Horse that won the Derby in 1995
• The principal port of Corsica
• Real surname of comedian Vic Reeves
• Czech-born German golfer whose European Tour wins include the 1995 Volvo Masters and the 2002 Trophée Lancôme
• Manchester-based fashion brand launched by David Mallon in 1999
• 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney about an organisation for at-risk children founded by Father Edward J Flanagan
• Institution founded by King George III on 10 December 1768
• A wheel-like instrument used by surveyors to measure distances
• Radio 4 comic fantasy series starring Stephen Mangan, Alistair McGowan and Kevin Eldon
• 1977 spy novel by John le Carré whose title refers to Gerald Westerby, a British spy sent to Hong Kong by George Smiley

Down Clues

• A vat in which cloth is bleached
• 1936 orchestral work by George Gershwin based upon music from his opera Porgy and Bess
• Colourless volatile pungent liquid, also called ethanal, whose formula is CH3CHO
• Thomas ___, English inventor who created the first practical steam engine for pumping water
• Annual flat race that takes place in Scotland in September, originally run at Belleisle in 1804
• Art gallery in Florence in a building built by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century
• Sir Andrew ___, Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009
• The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
• English editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988
• Distillation product from coal tar boiling containing aromatic hydrocarbons
• A sweet white wine made in the southern Bordeaux district of France
• Small African antelope, the male of which has ridged spikelike horns
• See 9
• A kind of witchcraft originating in Africa and practised by some West Indians
• In the Old Testament, a city destroyed by God for its wickedness along with Gomorrah
• The first book of the Old Testament
• Youth who drowned in the Hellespont while swimming to reach his beloved Hero
• Country whose capital is Cairo
• A full-bodied golden-coloured sweet sherry
• Tropical plant of the genus Cassia with yellow flowers and long pods
• Shepherdess loved by Daphnis in a story by the Greek author Longus
• French cubist painter who was influenced by industrial technology
• An impression taken to remove remaining ink from an engraved plate before re-inking
• Marina ___, Serbian conceptual and performance artist whose first major UK exhibition was originally set to open last month at “47 Across” but has been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Canadian sprinter disqualified after winning the men’s 100m the 1988 Olympics
• Any of several Native peoples of N America or Greenland, as distinguished from those from Asia or the Aleutian Islands
• Dallas nightclub operator who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963
• The ___, play by Anton Chekhov first produced in 1896
• The male reproductive organ of a flower
• 1995 Michael Caton-Jones film starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt and Tim Roth
• Colour of the snooker ball worth two points
• Family name of the dukes of Ferrara and of Modena
• The capital of the canton of Valais in Switzerland