The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 132 Crossword Solution
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 132 Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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“And every time I see you ____ / I’m such a happy individual” (You Make Me Feel So Young lyrics) | GRIN |
“Every artist was first an ____” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | AMATEUR |
“Well ____! … / There’s little comfort in the wise” (Rupert Brooke, in Tiare Tahiti) | This Side of Paradise |
2009 historical novel by Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall |
A dolphin’s flipper or a duck’s wing | FORELIMB |
Aardvarks | ANTBEARS |
Administers a drug, perhaps to enhance athletic performance | DOPES |
Alternative to “stock” as a name for the undealt part of the pack in card games | TALON |
Ancient route from Rome to Brindisi | Via Appia |
Author of the Bryant & May detective stories | Christopher Fowler |
Barbadian singer with hits including Umbrella and Only Girl (In the World) | RIHANNA |
British First World War equivalent of one of the two dances in the Nato phonetic alphabet | TOC |
Budget flight operator based in Swords, Dublin | RYANAIR |
Captain Charles Edstaston is the central character of ____: Whom Glory Still Adores by George Bernard Shaw | Great Catherine |
Clothing retailer known as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland | primark |
Country bordered by Nicaragua and Panama | costa rica |
Crème de ____ is a liqueur made from blackcurrants | CASSIS |
Derived from a Latin word meaning white, a blank book for the collecting of photographs etc | ALBUM |
Edible mushroom with honeycombed cap | MOREL |
Electrically charged particles emitted by very hot material | thermions |
Feminist whose second daughter wrote Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft |
First two words of the hymn usually sung to the tune Eventide | abide with |
Formed a luminous electrical discharge | ARCED |
Former company which made enamel paints used with model kits | humbrol |
Former Hull City midfielder who joined Derby County for a second time in 2017 | Tom Huddlestone |
Former long-distance runner who founded the Great North Run | Brendan Foster |
Formerly, a European who made a fortune in India | NABOB |
Humanitarian sometimes called the “British Schindler” | Sir Nicholas Winton |
Clues | Answers |
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In Greek myth, a son of Temenus, and the eponymous subject of a play by Euripides | ARCHELAUS |
In this Oscar Wilde play, Mrs Erlynne is revealed to be the main protagonist’s mother, not a love rival | Lady Windermere’s Fan |
Informal description of “duple time” | in two |
Labour MP for Hartlepool, 1992-2004 | Peter Mandelson |
Masculine given name in both Welsh and Japanese | DAI |
More shy | TIMIDER |
Music magazine which ceased publication in 2000 and was incorporated into NME | Melody Maker |
Named after the Latin name for Copenhagen, the last of the stable elements to be discovered | HAFNIUM |
Old name for a domestic bovine animal | NEAT |
Philip Schofield played Thomas More in stage and film versions of Robert Bolt’s ____ | A Man For All Seasons |
Player of a kind of saxophone often used by beginners | ALTOIST |
Russian historian and philosopher who championed reforms by Alexander II, including the emancipation of the serfs | Boris Chicherin |
Samurai with no master; 1998 film starring Robert De Niro | RONIN |
Sitcom in which the often mimicked “Ooh, Betty” was only said once | Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em |
Six of the poems used in Schubert’s Schwanengesang are by Heinrich ____ | HEINE |
Substance used in baking, and to treat indigestion | bicarbonate of soda |
Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008 | Bertie Ahern |
Technical expert advising in a trial or inquiry | ASSESSOR |
The act of rowing, or associated equipment | OARAGE |
The clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol | Bob Cratchit |
The Night Watch is one of ____’s best-known paintings | REMBRANDT |
The orbital cavity | eye socket |
Two-humped beast of burden native to the steppes of Central Asia | Bactrian camel |
Type of mirage, its name derived from Arthurian legend | Fata Morgana |
Type of read-only memory which can be erased and overwritten | EPROM |
Vague knowledge or suspicion | INKLING |
Wilhelm ____ discovered X-rays | ROENTGEN |
Wolfsbane, or the poison derived from it | ACONITE |