Jumbo General October 31, 2020 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 28 and 35 Across? Connection from #592 Maria Callas, Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley died in 1977

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Crossword GK Jumbo 593 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 31, 2020

Across Clues

• 1982 Taylor Hackford film starring Richard Gere and Debra Winger
• See 25
• Genus of flowering plants commonly known as madder
• See 25
• Sir Thomas ___, author of Le Morte d’Arthur
• A demon in male form such as one said to have fathered Merlin
• Group whose first album, released in 1995, became the fastest-selling debut album in UK history
• Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conductor whose works include Das Lied von der Erde
• A Hawaiian word for hello or goodbye
• The only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
• English playwright whose TV dramas include Bar Mitzvah Boy, Spend, Spend, Spend and The Knowledge
• Port and resort in Liguria, Italy, in which two treaties were signed after World War I
• Scottish knight and landowner, executed for treason in 1305, who inspired the 1995 film Braveheart
• A rugged region east of the Jordan River called Trachonitis in the New Testament
• See 32
• Earl of Mercia who was the husband of Lady Godiva
• Small Tibetan dog with a long straight dense coat and a feathered tail carried curled over its back
• 1994 John Badham action movie starring Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey and Yancy Butler
• A medieval form of the oboe
• Another name for a will-o’-the-wisp
• Song by The Frank and Walters that reached number 11 in the UK singles chart in 1993
• Festival held at the end of the harvest season in Gaelic and Brythonic cultures
• Basil ___, Scottish architect who designed the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral
• See 53
• American jazz trumpeter and singer nicknamed “Satchmo”
• Hercule ___, fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie in 1920
• German director of the films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and The Marriage of Maria Braun

Down Clues

• English city called Aquae Sulis by the Romans
• The Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant Saponaria officinalis
• 1999 autobiography by Geri Halliwell
• Official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, the Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen
• City that is home to the University of Michigan, which moved from Detroit in 1837
• Popular band singer in the 1930s who later became a voice actor on the radio show Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh
• Author of Lavengro and Romany Rye
• Yellow Italian herbal liqueur produced since 1860 in Benevento, Campania
• A group of seven singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group
• 1978 thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax starring Elliott Gould and James Brolin
• Arizona ___, the oldest continuously-run professional American football club in the United States
• The capital of Nigeria
• A green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass or bronze
• Singer who joined the The New Seekers in 1970 and featured on hits such as I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
• Breed of horse, originally from America, typically having a spotted rump
• London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive that holds the world speed record for steam locomotives
• 1962 Grand National winner ridden by Fred Winter
• Building in Istanbul that was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520
• Matt ___, actor who played Joey Tribbiani in the sitcoms Friends and Joey
• The third episode of the second series of Fawlty Towers
• Novelist and poet who succeeded Jacqueline Wilson as Children’s Laureate in June 2007
• In medicine, a prediction of the course or outcome of a disease or disorder
• Courtier sent by Claudius to invite Hamlet to participate in the duel with Laertes in Shakespeare’s play
• Hatred of women
• Scottish Formula One racing driver who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965
• 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film based on a novella by Daphne du Maurier
• 1788 play by Goethe for which Beethoven wrote incidental music
• Muscular vessel that conveys oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body
• A wild mountain sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of north Africa also called a Barbary sheep
• See 29
• Annual malvaceous plant, Hibiscus esculentus, also called ladies’ fingers