Jumbo General October 24, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 21 and 57 Across? Connection from #591 Leaning on a Lamp-Post, In Which We Serve and Wonderwall were written by Noels (Gay, Coward and Gallagher)

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Crossword GK Jumbo 592 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 24, 2020

Across Clues

• Florida city founded in 1791 as Cowford
• The capital of Benin
• Oscar-winning song sung by Doris Day in the film Calamity Jane
• US-born Greek operatic soprano whose original surname was Kalageropoulos
• Oscar-winning musical based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
• Obsolete name for sodium, hence its symbol
• Lead singer of Tyrannosaurus Rex, later T Rex
• American singer-songwriter whose hit singles include A Woman’s Worth and Girl on Fire
• See 51
• The virginal Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon
• Musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, based on a 1995 Gregory Maguire novel set in the Land of Oz
• African country whose capital is Freetown
• A small teleost fish of the family Gasterosteidae
• The sixth-largest city in Israel
• Footwear retailer founded in 1981 as a single shop in Edinburgh
• Bernie ___, magnate replaced as chief executive of the Formula One Group by Chase Carey in 2017
• Flemish painter best known for the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb, in Ghent
• US inventor of the sewing machine
• Don ___, American actor who received an Oscar nomination for the film Hotel Rwanda
• 1981 film about Allied prisoners of war featuring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles and Pelé
• 1985 Stephen Frears film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke, with a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi
• The administrative centre of Wiltshire
• 1979 top ten hit for the Beach Boys with music based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
• American singer and actor known as “the King”

Down Clues

• Large suburb of East London in which the Ford Motor Company opened a factory in 1931
• Greek island in the Aegean that is the largest island of the Northern Sporades
• County whose administrative centre is Morpeth
• British aircraft manufacturer founded in 1910 whose designs include the Lancaster bomber used in World War II
• Capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa
• The smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public
• Letters emblazoned on the standards of the Roman legions, from the Latin phrase Senatus Populusque Romanus
• A freshwater cyprinid fish of the genus Abramis
• A fighting axe used by Native Americans
• Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner for Cabaret
• Nickname of Sir Henry Percy
• Tin-glazed earthenware made in a town in the Netherlands since the 17th century
• African country whose capital is Kampala
• The third largest of the Balearic Islands
• Israeli designer, artist and architect whose designs include the Rover chair and the Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv
• American songwriter, musician and actor best known for his soundtrack for the film Shaft
• System of five graduated levels of readiness for the United States Armed Forces
• In music, a recitative with the lyrical quality of an aria
• Jockey who rode Shergar to victory in the 1981 Derby by a record 10 lengths
• City in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, 12 kilometres from Santos, noted for its pollution
• German city that is the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr
• 1968 film starring Frank Sinatra, based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp
• In yoga, any of the seven major energy centres in the body
• See 24
• The capital of Egypt
• George Eliot’s first novel
• In Norse mythology, the great hall of Odin where warriors who die as heroes in battle dwell eternally
• Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot
• Road running from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square
• Small market town in North Yorkshire with a racecourse
• Unit of weight equal to 14 pounds
• Plant of the genus Linum from which linen is made
• Vegetable of the onion family that is the national emblem of Wales
• Russian city at the confluence of the Irtysh and Om rivers