Jumbo General January 23, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 17 and 49 Across? Connection from #604 Calypso, Daphne and Egeria are nymphs

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Crossword GK Jumbo 605 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 23, 2021

Across Clues

• Scottish football team nicknamed ‘The Gable Endies’
• Animated character created by Teletubbies inventor Anne Wood for Channel 4 in the 1980s
• American actress and singer who was the mother of actor Larry Hagman
• Crumbling and drying of timber caused by saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungi
• The antelope Damaliscus dorcas of southern Africa
• Native American leader and founder of the Iroquois confederacy immortalised by an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Fibrous substance to which the adjective xyloid relates
• Group whose only UK number 1 single was Caravan of Love in 1986
• The capital of Chile
• 1929 song written by Fats Waller, Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf
• See 38
• Land, especially surrounding a house or manor, retained by the owner for his own use
• Horse that in 1970 became the first in 35 years to win the English Triple Crown
• The smallest Anglo-Saxon unit of length, of one third of an inch
• New Zealand golfer who was the first left-hander to win a major: the 1963 Open Championship
• Waylon ___, executive assistant to Charles Montgomery Burns in The Simpsons
• Actress married to playwright Jack Rosenthal from 1974 until his death in 2004
• White crystalline derivative of benzene also called carbolic acid
• The officer in charge of military police
• Pablo de ___, Spanish violin virtuoso, composer and conductor whose works include Gypsy Airs
• 1972 Top 20 single by The Moody Blues from their album Seventh Sojourn
• Any of the parallel strips into which the carriageway of a motorway is divided
• African country whose capital is Harare
• 1979 play by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of Mozart and Salieri
• City and state capital of New York, situated on the Hudson river
• Port at the mouth of the River Wear that received city status in 1992
• River that rises in Snowdonia and forms part of the border between Wales and England
• In the Old Testament, one of the “cities of the plain” destroyed by God, along with Sodom and two others

Down Clues

• George ___, English traveller and writer whose works include Lavengro and The Romany Rye
• Castle that is home to the Northern Ireland Executive
• Main artery in the human body
• Horse that won the Derby in 1980
• A genus of mayfly
• English artist whose works include the tapestry Christ in Majesty in Coventry Cathedral
• Playwright played by Johnny Depp in the film Finding Neverland
• The wild sheep Ovis ammon
• North American name for a truncheon
• South African-born radio and TV presenter best remembered for the British version of Blockbusters
• Former Manchester City and England footballer who featured in the film Escape to Victory alongside Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Pelé
• Surname of the parties involved in the fictional court case in Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• British multinational insurance company created by the merger of Norwich Union and CGU plc
• Name assumed by T S Eliot in letters to his godchildren
• Small peninsula crossing the mouth of Poole Harbour
• Merseyside village best known as the home of the Grand National
• Name for the Russian city of Perm from 1940 to 1957
• Popular song by Shamus O’Connor and John J Stamford recorded in late 1945 by Bing Crosby
• Canadian darts player who won the PDC World Championship in 2003 and 2008
• A fast German vessel carrying guns and torpedoes in World War II
• See 6
• Caribbean island whose capital is Fort-de-France
• Austrian city in which Mozart was born
• A marine animal of the genus Branchiostoma, also called amphioxus
• Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean also called Spitsbergen
• The Diary of a ___, English comic novel by George and Weedon Grossmith
• When the ___ bares his steel, song from Act II of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan
• A commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the US Navy
• A group or series of nine
• Ruth’s mother-in-law in the Old Testament