The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 261 Crossword Solution
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 261 Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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“All the ____ people, where do they all come from?” (Eleanor Rigby lyrics) | LONELY |
1970s Sunday night TV series about a shipping company | The Onedin Line |
A keyboard instrument | JOANNA |
Combs and saws have them | hampstead Heath |
Indian food | ruby Murray |
Section of the Metropolitan Police | sweeney todd |
These have risers and treads | apples and pears |
This is a clue | scooby doo |
To depart in a hurry | scapa Flow |
You may see this in a bun | barnet fair |
A coffeehouse’s server of coffee | BARISTA |
A railway across Australia’s ____ Plain has the world’s longest stretch of straight track | nullarbor |
A US name for some bedside furniture | night tables |
A ____ king or queen may use 27A | PEARLY |
An admiral’s aide-de-camp | flag lieutenant |
An American name for a travelling rug | lap robe |
Anthony ____ was the UK’s prime minister during the Suez crisis | EDEN |
Biased or below the belt | UNFAIR |
Code inserted into software to set off a malicious function in specific circumstances | logic bomb |
Dudley Moore’s Little Miss Britten skit parodied the voice of Peter ____ | PEARS |
Expression meaning “comes into view” | heaves in sight |
Fish imported into the UK during the Second World War | SNOEK |
George Town is the capital of the ____ Islands | CAYMAN |
Hungarian prime minister Imre ____ was deposed by a Soviet military invasion in 1956 | NAGY |
Hydrocarbon gas used in welding | ACETYLENE |
Clues | Answers |
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If someone ____ something, they devour it enthusiastically | tucks into |
In grammar, to match in inflectional form | AGREE |
In physics, a reflecting or refracting surface free from spherical aberration | aplanat |
Left hastily and/or furtively | did a runner |
Member of a biological clade including birds, reptiles and mammals, named after a membrane surrounding the foetus | AMNIOTE |
Old English letter now replaced by the last two letters of its name | ETH |
One of Islam’s “pillars” (spelling with a doubled consonant) | HAJJ |
People making false claims about their lives and achievements | FANTASISTS |
Player of the upper part in a piano duet | PRIMO |
Pseudo-archaic verb, meaning “know” | WIS |
See 27A | ITALICISED |
Small green grandmaster of the Jedi Order | YODA |
Something causing (possibly overstated) disgust | ABOMINATION |
State of inactivity or equilibrium | STASIS |
The “helicopter seed” of trees in the Fraxinus genus | ash key |
The answers to the eight 6A clues in this puzzle are examples of ____ | c*ckney rhyming slang |
The densest naturally occurring element | OSMIUM |
The ____ tube connects the middle ear to the pharynx | EUSTACHIAN |
To be taken over by an emotion or indication of it, such as laughter | subside into |
Tourist attraction where you may see a representation of Guy Fawkes or 14A | London Dungeon |
US state bordering Virginia and Tennessee | North Carolina |
Variations from standard pitch in jazz | blue notes |
Words from which later words are derived | ETYMA |
____ played surgeon Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man | Anthony Hopkins |
____’s “The man who …” cartoons featured overreactions to minor social gaffes | H M Bateman |