The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 313 April 10 2022 Crossword Solutions
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 313
Clues | Answers |
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“Every other author may aspire to ____; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach” (Samuel Johnson) | PRAISE |
“The Manassa Mauler”, world heavyweight champion, 1919-26 | Jack Dempsey |
1960s and 1970s ITV show in which Jonathan Routh played practical jokes on the unsuspecting public | candid camera |
A portable organ used mainly in renaissance times | REGAL |
A skilled musician or instrumentalist | VIRTUOSO |
A term for industrial action not approved by the relevant union | WILDCAT |
A term invented by Lewis Carroll for words such as brunch, chortle or smog | PORTMANTEAU |
Aeroplane component, also called a flap | AILERON |
An individual track in a marshalling yard | SIDING |
An irrational number has an infinite number of ____s | Decimal place |
Australian leg-spinner who dismissed Mike Gatting with the “ball of the century” in the 1993 Old Trafford Test | Shane Warne |
Australian wicketkeeper who died on the same day as 1A and who claimed 355 Test dismissals in his career | Rodney Marsh |
Belonging to dreams | ONEIRIC |
Boeing’s CH-47, a double rotor helicopter | CHINOOK |
Designated part of a depressed urban area, with tax and other concessions to attract businesses | enterprise zone |
F1 racing circuit in the Rhine valley which last hosted the German Grand Prix in 2019 | hockenheim |
Food which made the gods of ancient Greece immortal | AMBROSIA |
France’s highest order of merit, instituted by Napoleon in 1802 | legion dhonneur |
In Greek myth, the father of 50 sea nymphs | NEREUS |
Informal name for the football team which plays its home matches in West Bridgford | Notts Forest |
Location of the cochlea and vestibule | inner ear |
Long-tailed rodent native to western North America | pack rat |
March or yomp | FOOTSLOG |
Clues | Answers |
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Martine ____ played Tiffany Mitchell in Eastenders | mccutcheon |
Mediterranean herb, sometimes called wild marjoram | OREGANO |
Member of the comedy duo whose first TV show was Running Wild in 1954 | Ernie Wise |
One of the three patriarchs of the biblical Israelites | ISAAC |
One of two very successful sitcoms written by Roy Clarke and set in his native Yorkshire | Open All Hours |
One who sponges off others’ charity | FREELOADER |
Paris’s 5th ____ includes the Latin Quarter and the 15A | ARRONDISSEMENT |
Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren recorded this song as a follow-up to Goodness Gracious Me | bangers and mash |
Portable seat introduced into England from Italy in 1634 by Sanders Duncombe | Sedan chair |
Radio play by Terence Rattigan about the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover for the murder of her third husband | Cause Celebre |
Service in traditional divine office, held around 3pm | NONES |
Sheets used for decorative purposes rather than writing | Crepe paper |
Small basin for holy water, especially near a church door | STOUP |
So to say | as it were |
Squares cut into seven pieces, used to form figures | TANGRAMS |
Stand used by surveyors and photographers | TRIPOD |
Term like “take the knee” in 2017 or “perestroika” in 1986 | NEOLOGISM |
The device used by Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland caterpillar | HOOKAH |
The second-largest of the Isles of Scilly | Tresco |
Theological college founded in 1253, later a name for the University of Paris | SORBONNE |
Tool used to alter photographs in the pre-digital era | AIRBRUSH |
Under Milk Wood’s ____ dreams about drowned sea-mates | Captain Cat |
Unreasonably expensive | EXORBITANT |