The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 333 August 28 2022 Crossword Solutions
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 333
Clues | Answers |
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“Love all, trust a few, ____” (All’s Well That Ends Well) | Do wrong to none |
2006 romantic comedy film starring Russell Crowe as London trader Max Skinner | A Good Year |
A body’s waste material | EGESTA |
A manual worker or artisan, especially in Shakespeare | MECHANICAL |
A roundworm or threadworm | NEMATODE |
Alternative name for a black mark in North America | DEMERIT |
An attendant of Dionysus | SATYR |
At 29, ____ became the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner, for his role in The Pianist | Adrien Brody |
Card game which begins with one queen removed from the pack | old maid |
Collectively, anonymous literary works | Adespota |
Country whose capital is Suva | FIJI |
De facto governing body of the Gaza Strip since 2007 | HAMAS |
Degree of deviation in a ship’s course due to leeway | DRIFTAGE |
Dickens novel subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress | Oliver Twist |
Dry-eyed | TEARLESS |
En route | in transit |
Flat expanses of land common in polar regions | icefields |
Guest vocalist on the 1979 single Street Life by The Crusaders | Randy Crawford |
In 1989, East Germany’s politburo ousted Erich ____ as head of state in an attempt to regain public support | honecker |
In Greek mythology, the wife of Agamemnon | CLYTEMNESTRA |
In Marvel comics, the antagonist-turned-protagonist known as Black Widow | Natasha Romanova |
In physics, a photon’s energy is equal to its frequency multiplied by ____ | Planck’s constant |
Isaac’s elder twin son in the book of Genesis | ESAU |
Last of the USA’s “lower 48” states to gain statehood | ARIZONA |
Clues | Answers |
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Mobile app promoted as “the fastest way to share a moment!” | SNAPCHAT |
No longer in danger | out of the woods |
Of the US states with land borders with Canada, ____ has the shortest | IDAHO |
Often semi-circular, an instrument for measuring angles | PROTRACTOR |
Port which lies 333 miles southeast of Pretoria | DURBAN |
Probiotic bacterium used to make yoghurt and cheese | lactobacillus |
Reef-building material, for which madrepore is an old name | stony coral |
Renaissance shift towards classical studies led by Erasmus, More et al | New Learning |
Southernmost and westernmost city of New Zealand | invercargill |
Symbol which most commonly represents the zodiac sign Cancer | CRAB |
That which is measured using a hygrometer | HUMIDITY |
The capital of Manitoba | WINNIPEG |
The event which made Baden-Powell a national hero | Siege of Mafeking |
The only property south of the Thames on a London Monopoly board | Old Kent Road |
The US state with the highest proportion of indigenous inhabitants | ALASKA |
The ____ was Michael Crichton’s first novel under his own name | Andromeda Strain |
To extract an essence by heating or boiling | DECOCT |
To go off ____ is to digress from the main topic | at a tangent |
Turkey’s biggest coastal holiday resort | ANTALYA |
Type of person often called an illywhacker in Australia | con artist |
Unusually extravagant | OUTRE |
Variety of pear named after Napoleon’s second wife | Marie Louise |
What is burnt in the opening scene of a 1960s rock musical | HAIR |
Whitehall monument designed by Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1920 | The Cenotaph |