The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 376 June 25 2023 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 376
Clues | Answers |
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“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and ____ three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator” (Lemony Snicket) | RECITE |
“Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer ____ / Into something rich and strange” (Shakespeare) | a sea change |
1971 Carole King album that features It’s Too Late | TAPESTRY |
Actor who played a backwards-aging man in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Brad Pitt |
Actress who played the cook Julia Child in a 2009 film | Meryl Streep |
Amphibians such as hellbenders and mud puppies | SALAMANDERS |
Animal often used as a symbol of Russia | BEAR |
Big Ben ____ is a replica clocktower in a former British Empire territory | ADEN |
British foodstuff with a crimped edge, and protected geographical indication status since 2011 | cornish pasty |
Capital city of Sierra Leone | FREETOWN |
Card game, gold coin or fictional pig | NAPOLEON |
Chains may matter in the work of these professionals | estate agents |
Christian service celebrating the nativity of Jesus | midnight mass |
Cleaning product, football team or hero in Greek myth | AJAX |
Dance music act who released Rhythm is a Dancer in 1992 | SNAP |
Design house that makes Kelly and Birkin bags | HERMES |
Every match in the first (football) World Cup took place in this city | MONTEVIDEO |
French existentialist who said that hell is other people | jean-paul sartre |
Gaseous layer above the mesopause | THERMOSPHERE |
Green and white-shirted Scottish football team | CELTIC |
In Anglican churches, this is often Ancient and Modern or New English | HYMNAL |
In children’s fiction, Professor Digory Kirke’s most significant piece of furniture | WARDROBE |
In medicine, a small hammer used to test reflexes | PLEXOR |
In old slang, a police officer | BLUEBOTTLE |
Clues | Answers |
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In pre-Imperial English measurement units, half a cubit | SPAN |
Informally, to adapt or embellish (something) ostentatiously | PIMP |
Irvine Welsh novel featuring the character Spud | TRAINSPOTTING |
Kind of exercise popularised by Jane Fonda in the 1980s | AEROBICS |
Lamellophone which is heard at the beginning of the Who song Join Together | Jew’s-harp |
Location of a battle between God and kings of the earth in Revelation | ARMAGEDDON |
Margaret Atwood novel about the real-life 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery | Alias Grace |
Medium-hard cheese, often with large holes, originally made in Switzerland | EMMENTAL |
Millie Bobby Brown’s Stranger Things character | ELEVEN |
New wave band whose breakthrough album was Rio in 1982 | Duran Duran |
Nine ____s pass through each of your carpal tunnels | TENDON |
Pop-rap act who released Where is the Love? in 2003 | black eyed peas |
Raspy-voiced singer who had a 1999 hit with I Try | Macy Gray |
Religion with elements from Protestant Christianity and pan-African political consciousness | RASTAFARIANISM |
Short distance named after a Swedish physicist | ANGSTROM |
Social science of human relationships and culture | ANTHROPOLOGY |
Sportsman with the nickname Fed-ex | Roger Federer |
Squat marsupial which produces cube-shaped dung | WOMBAT |
The day after Mardi Gras | ash wednesday |
The first Ford model with this name was a version of the 1950s Squire estate car | ESCORT |
The oldest (national) capital city in the world | DAMASCUS |
This Italian liqueur can be made with apricot stones | AMARETTO |
Type of painting such as Michelangelo’s The Last Judgement | FRESCO |
____ won a Bafta and Oscar for Howard’s End in 1992 | Emma Thompson |