The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 347 December 4 2022 Crossword Answer List

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 347

Clues Answers
“O God defend me, how am I ____!” (Much Ado about Nothing) BESET
“Though his barque cannot be lost, / Yet it shall be ____-tossed” (First Witch, Macbeth) TEMPEST
1988 comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito TWINS
2011 album by Britney Spears femme fatale
A Brazilian palm and its yellowish wax CARNAUBA
A carrycot typically made of wicker Moses basket
A white wine of the Loire Valley MUSCADET
Actress who played Mia in Pulp Fiction Uma Thurman
Body of water between Australia and New Guinea Torres Strait
City of northern Italy on the River Adige TRENTO
Co-star of Hattie Jacques in several BBC sitcoms Eric Sykes
Company like Cammel Laird or Harland and Wolff SHIPBUILDER
Cornish coastal ruins closely associated with King Arthur Tintagel Castle
Egyptian mummification material made from plastered layers of linen or papyrus cartonnage
English name for the Danish port in which Hamlet is set ELSINORE
English star of 1920s musical revues and 1930s comedy and musical films, who later played Mrs Dale on BBC radio Jessie Matthews
Equivalent of John Lennon in the fictional Ruttles band Ron Nasty
Existing before the creation of the world antemundane
Flexor muscle of the upper arm or thigh BICEPS
Former RAF base near Newbury, closed in 1992 Greenham Common
French producer of liqueurs and spirits, created by a 1990 merger Remy Cointreau
Greek “fate”, personified as Clotho, Lachesis or Atropos MOIRA
In geology, rich in silica ACIDIC
In Scottish and Northern English dialect, trifling or fastidious niffy-naffy
Clues Answers
In US spelling, the second word of this item of furniture is often replaced by a room in which it might be found chaise longue
In weightlifting, a ____ is lifting the bar to the shoulders and standing up CLEAN
Indo-Aryan language written in a Perso-Arabic script URDU
Jess ____ presented Stars on Sunday on ITV in the 1970s YATES
Latin phrase expressing hope that something undesirable does not happen absit omen
Leather straps used to tether hawks in falconry JESSES
London’s SW14 postcode includes Mortlake and ____ East Sheen
Long-muzzled dog created in the 19th century by a German tax collector (US name) Doberman pinscher
New Zealand actress who, aged 11, won an Oscar for her role in The Piano Anna Paquin
Nickname of the London’s Burning character Bert Quigley SICKNOTE
Pass in the Appalachian Mountains, used by pioneers to reach Kentucky and Tennessee Cumberland Gap
Richard Gere’s co-star in the 2002 film Unfaithful Diane Lane
River on the eastern edge of the small area of Belgium not occupied by Germany for most of the First World War YSER
Smoky quartz named after a Scottish mountain range CAIRNGORM
The capital city of Nicaragua MANAGUA
The capital of Burkina Faso OUAGADOUGOU
The Comic Strip comedian who later voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the film Minions Jennifer Saunders
The L of AWOL LEAVE
The ____ measures the specific gravity of a sugar solution Brix Scale
Title of a deputy taoiseach TANAISTE
Under way AFOOT
US hip hop group founded by Chuck D and Flavor Flav in 1985 Public Enemy
Variety of porcelain made using bone ash SPODE
____ in Cardiff is responsible for the registration of businesses in England and Wales Companies House

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