The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 379 July 16 2023 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 379
Clues | Answers |
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“Damn braces: ____ relaxes” (Blake, Proverbs of Hell) | BLESS |
“Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ____ sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority” (Letitia Landon) | ill-used |
“____ and means” is taxation or other government fund-raising | WAYS |
1917 battle also called the third battle of Ypres | PASSCHENDAELE |
1978 sitcom which was a spin-off from Porridge | Going Straight |
A (usually wooden) jigsaw piece in a recognisable shape, often related to the picture | WHIMSY |
A board next to a sink, or a rack placed on it | DRAINER |
After the Second World War, clothes were ____ in 1949 | derationed |
Among the lost tribes of Israel, ____ and Manasseh formed the House of Joseph | EPHRAIM |
Another name for the slide guitar playing style | BOTTLENECK |
Antipodean community events with barbecued meat | sausage sizzles |
Arizona’s ___ reservation is surrounded by the Navajo one | HOPI |
Arthur Lasenby ____, a former draper’s apprentice, founded a Regent Street shop in 1875 | LIBERTY |
Arts programme in the post-Newsnight “graveyard slot” on BBC2 in the early 1990s | The Late Show |
Band whose only UK No 1 was I Owe You Nothing in 1988 | BROS |
BBC radio show (1956-88) in which convoluted explanations of phrases became a notable feature | my word |
Brand name for gin and cigarettes in Orwell’s 1984 | VICTORY |
Damien Thorn is killed in Omen III: ____ | The Final Conflict |
Disease which probably killed over 100 million people in 14th-century Europe | bubonic plague |
Dung beetles and fish eagles ____ what they eat | are named after |
Ecaterina ____, of Romania, won four gymnastics gold medals at the 1984 Olympics | szabo |
In an uninspired way | pedestrianly |
In economics, graphs showing how prices affect sales | demand curves |
In poetry, the reverse of an iamb | TROCHEE |
In psychiatry, a continual feeling of tiredness | anergia |
Clues | Answers |
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Informal name for a photovoltaic power station | solar farm |
Jack ____ was a pioneer in the literary Beat Generation | KEROUAC |
Leonhard ____’s “identity” combines e, i, pi, 1 and 0 as fundamental numbers in mathematics | EULER |
Mortar slope around a chimney top which throws off water | flaunch |
Narrow length of wood used to make barrels or pipes | STAVE |
Nasality in someone’s speech | TWANG |
Novelist whose best-known words are “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” about Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb |
Of a leaf edge, having rounded “teeth” | CRENATE |
Opaque or opalescent precious stones are often cut ____ | en cabochon |
Pottery exported from Japan in the Meiji period | satsuma ware |
Reductio ad ____ is a way of arguing for an idea by considering the implications of its opposite | absurdum |
River which rises in the Vosges and flows into the Moselle | SAAR |
Slender pale mushroom used in Japanese cuisine | ENOKI |
Something that drifted in a hypothesis suggested by Alfred Wegener in 1912 | CONTINENT |
Song used in Warner Bros films of the 1930s and 42nd Street | We’re in the Money |
The department junior played by Trevor Bannister in Are You Being Served? | Mr Lucas |
The high priest who anointed Solomon in Kings I | ZADOK |
This nation is “a mountaintop” in some football coverage | san marino |
Unpleasant or harmful discharges | EFFLUVIA |
What Queen will do in one of their best-known singles | Rock You |
Words or morphemes from which later words are derived | ETYMA |
World Match Play Championship golf course, 1964-2007 | WENTWORTH |
____ pasture is used beyond its capacity | OVERGRAZED |
____ replaced Mombasa as an African capital city in 1907 | NAIROBI |