The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 345 November 20 2022 Crossword Answer List
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 345
Clues | Answers |
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“Driver” and “conductor” are ____ nouns | AGENT |
“You get an ____, you’re a scientist” (Maureen Lipman in 1980s BT advertising) | OLOGY |
1346 battle which established the longbow as a dominant weapon in Europe | CRECY |
1961 film about pool shark “Fast Eddie” Felson | The Hustler |
A book of prescribed lessons for church services | LECTIONARY |
A person expected to answer questions | interrogatee |
A swan and a wren were named after this wood engraver | Thomas Bewick |
A ____ may be used as preparation for an exam | Past paper |
A ____’s Love-song is the John Betjeman poem featuring Joan Hunter Dunn | SUBALTERN |
Africa’s ____ fly is identifiable by its long proboscis | TSETSE |
An egg-laying and venomous mammal | PLATYPUS |
Art gallery located in a former railway terminus | Musee d’Orsay |
At the height of activity | in full swing |
Award won by Georg Solti 31 times and Beyoncé 28 times | GRAMMY |
Benjamin ____ has been the leader of Israel’s Likud party since 2005 and, previously, 1993-99 | NETANYAHU |
Chinese dynasty, in power AD618-907 | TANG |
Complex structure containing organs of the inner ear | LABYRINTH |
Composer and organist John ____ taught Henry Purcell | BLOW |
Cuban location of a failed landing attempt by US-assisted exiles in 1961 | Bay of Pigs |
George and Weedon ____ wrote The Diary of a Nobody | GROSSMITH |
German historian Max ____ is recognised as a founding father of sociology | WEBER |
Gershwin song written for The Goldwyn Follies | Love is Here to Stay |
Grey-brown colour, originally that of a mole | TAUPE |
Holder of the British men’s 100m record since 1986 | Linford Christie |
Clues | Answers |
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In an amusingly unconventional way | ZANILY |
Musical form which often amounts to “sacred madrigal” | MOTET |
One stage name of the rapper Sean Combs | Puff Daddy |
One who ____ goes out to enjoy themselves flamboyantly | paints the town red |
Online location for manga and similar entertainment | WEBCOMIC |
Painter of the Anne of Cleves portrait seen by Henry VIII | Hans Holbein |
Privy to (a secret) | in on |
Relating to the skin | CUTANEOUS |
Song also known as El Manisero, first recorded in the 1920s, with similar origins to 23A | The Peanut Vendor |
Song with lyrics by the poet Robert Herrick, thought to be based on a street food seller’s cry | cherry ripe |
Soprano Elisabeth ____’s best-known roles were in operas by Mozart and Richard Strauss | SCHWARZKOPF |
Spoke rapidly and/or nonsensically | yabbered |
Style of coat popularised in the UK by the Beatles | AFGHAN |
Term used in the names of many Calvinist churches | REFORMED |
The “curse of the ____” is a classical music superstition associated with Gustav Mahler | NINTH |
The larger natural satellite of Mars | PHOBOS |
The main grain used in making bourbon whiskey | MAIZE |
The opening number in the musical Cabaret | willkommen |
The quality of seeming solemn and/or wise | owlishness |
Took defensive action, originally in a military force | closed ranks |
Type of ox with a shoulder hump | ZEBU |
US informal expression of approval, often of someone’s appearance | hubba hubba |
What became the world’s biggest media conglomerate began with George ____’s purchase of a San Francisco newspaper in 1880 | HEARST |
____ clubs provide a form of child care | after-school |