Jumbo General October 17, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8, 27 and 50 Across? Connection from #590 Jerry Springer, Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela were all lawyers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 591 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 17, 2020

Across Clues

• Song associated with George Formby first performed in the 1937 film Feather Your Nest
• Pen name of Charles Lamb
• 1983 film about a Cuban immigrant turned drug dealer starring Al Pacino
• William Gladstone’s middle name
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump
• Nickname of US president Andrew Jackson
• 1988 film for which Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscar
• Identical twin brother of the MGM cartoon dog Droopy
• Tight-fitting garment named after a French acrobat
• Javed ___, former Pakistani cricketer between 1975 and 1996 who is the uncle of Faisal Iqbal
• 1942 David Lean that gave Richard Attenborough his first screen role
• Work on astronomy by Ptolemy containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue
• Dick ___, American tennis player who won both the Australian and Wimbledon men’s singles championships in 1951, at the age of 24
• Another name for carrageen
• See 57
• Region of Italy that includes Naples and the islands of Capri and Ischia
• The small ferocious carnivorous marsupial also called an ursine dasyure
• Clear acrylic resin used chiefly as a substitute for glass
• The dominant political party in Mozambique, founded in 1962
• The fourth Premier of the People’s Republic of China, 1987-98
• The world’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit, which opened in 1907 in Surrey
• Oasis single voted the best British song of all time in a poll conducted by Virgin Radio in 2005
• Jari ___, former captain of the Finland national football team whose clubs included “11 Down”, Barcelona and Liverpool
• The father of Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament
• Tropical plant of the genus Sinningia with bell-shaped flowers
• 1985 single by Dire Straits that reached number two in the UK charts
• Song that was a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in 1975, Thelma Houston in 1977 and The Communards in 1986

Down Clues

• Island in the SW Pacific, east of Australia, whose capital is Noumea
• Best actress Oscar-winner for The Rose Tattoo
• Novel published in October 1847 under the pen name Currer Bell
• A high-level computer programming language developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications
• Blondie’s fourth UK number one single
• A large vein that conveys oxygen-depleted blood to the heart
• See 44
• Cheshire town whose non-league football teams include ___ Victoria and Witton Albion
• US state whose capital is Salem
• Dutch football team based in Amsterdam
• In baseball, the player who throws the baseball towards the catcher to begin each play
• The property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
• West African republic whose capital is Dakar
• Plant of the genus Centaurea with spiny purplish flower heads
• 1971 Top Ten hit single by Family that spent 13 weeks in the UK charts
• Japanese-sounding name introduced by Currys in the 1980s for its own-brand electronics goods
• City in Thuringia, Germany, that gave its name to the republic that replaced the German Empire in 1919
• A bird such as Apus apus
• River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that gave its name to a deadly virus
• The technique of laying on paint or pigment thickly
• Family of birds known as finches
• Country whose capital is Baku
• The national flower of Austria
• Surrey town with rail links to London, Brighton, Reading and Tonbridge
• Posthumously-published autobiography by Australian actor Errol Flynn
• See 2
• John ___, newsreader and commentator whose report from the 1949 University Boat Race included “I can’t see who’s in the lead but it’s either Oxford or Cambridge”
• Brazilian winger who has been loaned to clubs including Watford, Newcastle United and Granada since joining Chelsea in 2015
• See 6
• Any shark of the genus Isurus
• The third largest of the Hawaiian Islands whose chief town is Honolulu