The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 393 October 22, 2023, Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 393
Clues | Answers |
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“’The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as ____” (Robert Morley) | The natives are waiters |
“I believe”, archaically or jocularly | METHINKS |
“Small showers last long, but sudden ____ are short” (Shakespeare in Richard II) | STORMS |
“The Card Sharp with the ____” is a Georges la Tour painting in the Louvre | ace of diamonds |
1970s board game whose box featured amateur models Bill Woodward and Cecilia Fung | MASTERMIND |
1976 live double album by Mike Harding | One Man Show |
2015 film starring Robert De Niro, with a title matching its film genre | HEIST |
A Christian, eg in Ukraine, following Orthodox rites but accepting the authority of the Pope | UNIATE |
A dome-like structure or the inside of a dome | CUPOLA |
A frequently metaphorical speaker’s platform | SOAPBOX |
A person in a “body suit” has many ____ | TATTOOS |
Actor who played villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard | Alan Rickman |
Actress nominated for Bafta and Golden Globe best actress awards for her role as Tippi Hedren in the 2012 TV film The Girl | Sienna Miller |
An aesthete’s area of interest | the arts |
Author of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe | Alexander McCall Smith |
BBC1 children’s observation game show, 1970-84 | Screen Test |
Childhood home of Elizabeth I, in Hertfordshire | Hatfield House |
City in which Marks & Spencer started as a market stall | LEEDS |
Coastal Californian city, starting point of the Race Across America bicycle race | OCEANSIDE |
Cockburn Town is the capital of this British Overseas Territory | Turks and Caicos Islands |
Eye inflammations known medically as hordeola | STYES |
Finished | THROUGH |
First of the two canticles in a choral evensong service | MAGNIFICAT |
French-based name for a private viewing of paintings before public exhibition | VERNISSAGE |
Clues | Answers |
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Honolulu, the capital city of Hawaii, is on this island | OAHU |
Humorously veiled phrase requesting silence about something | tace is Latin for a candle |
Ice skating move named after ____ Paulsen | AXEL |
Informally, “there is nothing more to be said” | end of |
Insulated container invented by Sir James Dewar in 1892 | thermos flask |
Launched at high speed | Catapulted |
Located in Chile, the world’s southernmost city with a population over 100,000 | punta arenas |
Long-tailed monkey which resembles a squirrel | MARMOSET |
Mr ____ is Captain Hook’s boatswain in Peter Pan | SMEE |
Norway’s second female prime minister, in office 2013-2021 | Erna Solberg |
Originally American old term for a percussionist in a jazz or dance band | trap drummer |
Preservative substance made from wood tar or coal tar | CREOSOTE |
Red Dwarf character played by Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge | HOLLY |
Shelved stand for the display of small ornaments | ETAGERE |
Star Wars character voiced by Frank Oz | YODA |
The atomic number of nitrogen | SEVEN |
The capital of Laos | VIENTIANE |
The real surname of Mark Twain | CLEMENS |
The UK’s 1980s answer to Apple as a significant computer brand | APRICOT |
Tissue swellings caused by serous fluid (US spelling) | EDEMAS |
Venus as the evening star | HESPERUS |
You Took The ____ Home is the first book of poems by Brian Bilston | last bus |
____ starred in a 1972 film whose title was the catchphrase of his creation Mandy | Dick Emery |
____ won eight grand slam titles but not Wimbledon | Ivan Lendl |