The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 370 May 14 2023 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 370
Clues | Answers |
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“All is not well. I doubt some ____” (Hamlet) | foul play |
“I’m a model, you know what I mean. And I do my little turn on the catwalk.” (I’m Too ____, Right Said Fred) | SEXY |
“In proportion, as the bourgeoisie grows in wealth, the ____ grows in numbers” (Friedrich Engels) | PROLETARIAT |
“Never corner an opponent, and always ____ him to save his face” (Liddell Hart) | ASSIST |
2006 film based on the life of a martial artist in the last years of the Qing dynasty | FEARLESS |
A fork-rooted plant once said to have magical powers | MANDRAKE |
A person who would call the Granite City their home | ABERDONIAN |
A word which can be prefixed by tight, guide or tow | ROPE |
Actor and star of the 2010-14 BBC sitcom Rev | Tom Hollander |
Adjective that could be used to describe Paddington | URSINE |
Another name for airships | DIRIGIBLES |
Blind jazz/blues pianist man who had a 1960 hit with Georgia on my Mind | Ray Charles |
Coated abrasive used for smoothing and polishing | GLASSPAPER |
Comedian Jenny ____ was pleasingly named for her 2012 Celebrity Masterchef appearance | ECLAIR |
Cue sport which can be played normally with two sides of the table against walls | bar billiards |
Edible brown-skinned flatfish with orange or red dots | PLAICE |
Environmental activist who conducted a 1996 tunnel-based protest against the expansion of the A30 in Devon | SWAMPY |
Fungus, for example | BOGEYMAN |
Great ape native to part of the Congo basin | BONOBO |
Hairstyle famously worn by child star Shirley Temple | RINGLETS |
Illness often diagnosed by pain at McBurney’s point | APPENDICITIS |
In a West Sussex nest in 2020, three ____ were the first born in Britain for about 600 years | STORKS |
In Greek myth, counterpart of the goddess Minerva | ATHENA |
In the 1970s, Robert ____’s photography focused on the gay sexual subculture of New York | mapplethorpe |
Clues | Answers |
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In the Second World War, “Stuka” was an abbreviation of the German for ____ | dive-bomber |
Indulging in plunder and pillage | depredatory |
Joseph Conrad novel; Ripley’s spaceship in Alien | NOSTROMO |
Liquid produced by mashing in beer and whisky making | WORT |
Loose name for a small insect which may bite | GNAT |
Musical featuring the songs Happy Talk and Some Enchanted Evening | South Pacific |
Not officially connected with an organisation | unaffiliated |
Operatic character whose tiny hand was frozen | MIMI |
Originally American term for someone operating deviously | FINAGLER |
Pop princess who sang with Nick Cave on the murder ballad Where the Wild Roses Grow | Kylie Minogue |
Roman leader who invaded Britain in 55BC and 54BC | CAESAR |
Stephen ____ was a co-writer and co-director of The Office, with Ricky Gervais | MERCHANT |
The hypothalamus and amygdalae are parts of the ____ | limbic system |
The rufous-bellied ___ is Brazil’s national bird | THRUSH |
The sauce for this kind of curry usually includes green chilli, onions and tomatoes | Jalfrezi |
The ____ was a 1969 book about promotion, intended to be satire | Peter Principle |
To act in a way inviting disaster | ride for a fall |
Tolerated something unpleasant | lumped it |
Type of shoe historically worn by native Americans | MOCCASIN |
Woodland flower sometimes called wild hyacinth | BLUEBELL |
Yearly event that marks a failed 1605 regicide attempt | Bonfire Night |
____ and Vilnius were the largest cities in the Second Polish Republic that later became cities of the USSR | LVIV |
____ plays DI Neville Parker in BBC TV’s Death in Paradise | Ralf Little |
____ starred in 264 episodes of Murder, She Wrote | Angela Lansbury |