The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 285 September 26 2021 Crossword Solution
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 285
Clues | Answers |
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A saint, prophet or clergyman | Man of God |
According to Ernest Hemingway, Switzerland is “much more ____ than sideways” | up and down |
Australian tennis star who, like Ivan Lendl, won every grand slam men’s singles title except Wimbledon at least twice | Ken Rosewall |
Author of The Tinderbox and The Tin Soldier, portrayed by Danny Kaye in a 1952 film | Hans Christian Andersen |
Ballet leap in which legs are crossed or beaten together | ENTRECHAT |
Band once worn on a Eucharist celebrant’s left arm | MANIPLE |
Bass wind instrument with sinuous tubing, used in village bands around 200 years ago | SERPENT |
Business offering refreshments and use of computers | internet cafe |
Canada’s North and South ____ rivers originate from glaciers in the Rockies and merge near Prince Albert on the way to Lake Winnipeg | SASKATCHEWAN |
Clive Anderson became the main host of this Radio 4 programme after Ned Sherrin died in 2007 | loose ends |
Cocktail of brandy, orange liqueur and lemon juice | SIDECAR |
Cold dish including cucumber, tomatoes, olives and feta | Greek salad |
Dutch “klompen” are an example of this kind of footwear | CLOGS |
Eastern Austria’s “iron town”, where Haydn is buried in the Bergkirche | EISENSTADT |
Emma Carus was the first singer of this Irving Berlin classic, in Chicago in 1911 | Alexanders Ragtime Band |
Film and TV genre developed in Japan | ANIME |
Former First Family, including daughters Malia and Sasha | OBAMAS |
French foodstuff whose shape is sometimes falsely claimed to celebrate a defeat of Arabic invaders of Europe | CROISSANT |
Hesiod and Pindar came from this ancient Greek province | BOEOTIA |
High up | ALOFT |
In a ____Garden is one of Albert Ketèlby’s most popular compositions | MONASTERY |
In English usage, the long syllable in a metrical foot in poetry | ARSIS |
Lancashire new town designated in 1961 to house overspill population from north Merseyside | skelmersdale |
Clues | Answers |
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Linked fetters binding a prisoner’s wrists or ankles | SHACKLE |
Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947 | Khyber Pass |
Palace which became a museum in the French Revolution | LOUVRE |
Part of Scotland known in Gaelic as Na h-Eileanan Siar | outer hebrides |
Piece of baggage comprising two equal-sized compartments hinged together | gladstone bag |
Powder from ___ beans is used as a substitute for chocolate | CAROB |
Radio comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, born Charles Olden | Ted Ray |
Sailing craft competing in events like the America’s Cup | Racing yacht |
Samuel Pepys’s ending for some of his diary entries | And so to bed |
Satirical magazine whose offices in Paris were attacked by two Islamist gunmen in 2015 | Charlie Hebdo |
Sets of island shelving in self-service stores | GONDOLAS |
Since June 28, the host of Countdown on Channel 4 | Anne Robinson |
The Bletchley Park codebreaker on the new £50 note | Alan Turing |
The primary orbital vehicle being developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company | STARSHIP |
The third brightest star in the sky, visible only from the southern hemisphere | alpha centauri |
The ____ was a jazz-influenced secular cantata by Constant Lambert, first performed in 1927 | Rio Grande |
Type of brandy produced in Gascony | ARMAGNAC |
Until 1974, senior county council members, elected by other councillors | ALDERMEN |
Vauxhall car which replaced the Wyvern model in 1957 | VICTOR |
Where Gray probably heard the “knell of parting day” | Stoke Poges |
Without harm, loss or penalty | scot free |
____ or grockle, Cornish dialect name for a holidaymaker | EMMET |