Jumbo General January 16, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 16 and 39 Across? Connection from #603 Socrates, Oscar and Kaka are former Brazil footballers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 604 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 16, 2021

Across Clues

• The greatest piano virtuoso of the 19th century
• Type of satirical, usually topical, West Indian ballad
• Greek god of war, identified with Roman Mars
• Wife of the Earl of Mercia who rode naked through Coventry, according to legend
• Yellow-flowered shrub of the genera Cytisus and Sarothamnus
• Small typically evergreen shrub with sweet-scented flowers
• University city in central Germany on the river Saale
• Rudi ___, German cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966
• Horse that won the 1997 Grand National
• Author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Michael ___, American swimmer who is the most decorated gold medallist of all time
• Novel by Charles Dickens originally serialised between 1843 and 1844
• Dutch discus and shot put thrower who married Irish swimmer Michelle Smith in 1996
• Asian country whose capital is Kabul
• Canadian actor whose films include Klute, Don’t Look Now and Ordinary People
• Mythical adviser of Numa Pompilius, king of Rome
• Island group whose capital is Willemstad on Curaçao
• First names of the conjoined twin brothers whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term “Siamese twins”
• BBC drama series set in the fictional town of Newtown that ran from 1962 to 1978
• The world’s largest and most populous continent
• Song that earned Dolly Parton a Grammy Award 44 years after its original release
• A Hebrew prophet of the 8th century BC who married the prostitute Gomer at God’s command
• Welsh snooker player nicknamed “Dracula”
• The derived SI unit of power
• Sir John ___, British composer and organist whose works include the oratorio The Crucifixion
• A High Church Anglican in the Oxford Movement such as John Henry Newman or Edward Bouverie Pusey

Down Clues

• Hit single from Supertramp’s 1974 album Crime of the Century
• American painter, printmaker and filmmaker who coined the widely used expression “15 minutes of fame”
• Either of two Egyptian obelisks, one on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, New York
• In poker, five cards that are in sequence irrespective of suit
• Tinned luncheon meat celebrated in a Monty Python song
• Figure in Scottish country dancing by means of which couples change position in the set
• Passerine bird of the crow family such as Pica pica
• Cookery term describing fish served in butter with lemon juice and parsley
• Jonathan ___, dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, who wrote Gulliver’s Travels
• Computer programming language designed for general commercial use
• The husband of “14 Across”
• The third largest city in Zimbabwe
• Turkish city historically known as Smyrna
• An archaic or poetic name for Ireland
• Actress who played Mitch’s ex lover, Annie Hayworth, in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds
• Clifford ___, American playwright best known for Waiting for Lefty
• The northernmost town on the British mainland
• Wilhelm ___, an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst portrayed by “37” in a video for Kate Bush’s song Cloudbusting
• Name by which the Crimean port and resort city of Feodosiya was known at the time of the Black Death
• Grand Prince of Moscow, known ‘the Terrible,’ who became the first Tsar of Russia in 1547
• Brightly-coloured venomous Asian snake of the genus Bungarus
• Mustapha ___, Moroccan international footballer who had spells at Coventry City and Aston Villa
• Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart was Cupid
• A member of a body of lancers first employed in the Polish army
• Village in Erie County, New York, that is home to the toy company Fisher-Price
• The patron saint of Russia and of children, sailors, merchants and pawnbrokers
• Leslie ___, Canadian actor who played Detective Frank Drebin in the TV series Police Squad! and the Naked Gun film series
• Town in Lower Galilee that was the home of Jesus in his youth
• A temporary encampment with few facilities, as used by soldiers, mountaineers, etc
• The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism
• 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School
• Egg white, especially when used as a size, glaze or adhesive
• The most sacred places of worship an ancient temples from which the laity was prohibited
• Winning margin in horse racing between a nose and a neck