The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 400 December 10, 2023, Puzzle Solutions
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 400
Clues | Answers |
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“Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the ____ disturbances” (Maslow) | SITUATIONAL |
2023 film based on the origin of a Nike shoe brand in the 1980s | AIR |
400m runner who officially did not finish an Olympic semi-final in 1992 as he was assisted by his father | derek Redmond |
A follower of Madame Blavatsky | THEOSOPHIST |
A human infant usually ____ for 18 months or more | TEETHES |
A raw and spirited style of playing in jazz | GUTBUCKET |
At ____ in 1991, four answers in this puzzle were the UK’s first 4x400m winners in a global championship since 1936 | TOKYO |
BBC sitcom with Tom Hollander as a priest in Hackney | REV |
Bergen to Kirkenes shipping service, serving over 30 ports | hurtigruten |
Bertie Wooster’s fearsome aunt | AGATHA |
Co ____ became part of Leinster rather than Ulster in 1596 | LOUTH |
Comedy actor Roy ____ played Veruca Salt’s father in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | KINNEAR |
Female ____s are the great apes with the longest interbirth period — six to nine years | ORANGUTAN |
First singer of Falling in Love Again | Marlene Dietrich |
French type of military cap, still used in the Foreign Legion | KEPI |
In 1648, Pride’s Purge created the ____ Parliament | RUMP |
In 1862, Henry Isaac ___ founded the company that later created Aero and Smarties | ROWNTREE |
In addition to his political career, Cardinal ___ is credited with inventing the table knife | RICHELIEU |
Insect larvae in a destructive swarm | army worms |
Latin for “anvil”; one of the three ossicles in the ear | INCUS |
Leader of fenland resistance to Norman rule, c 1070 | hereward the wake |
Literally “sparkling”, metaphorically “excitingly clever” | SCINTILLATING |
Maslow’s hierarchy of ____s is a theory in psychology | NEED |
Metal pan full of hot embers, used in homes c 1650-1900 | bed-warmer |
Michael ____’s omission from the US team in 44A made the British win much more likely | JOHNSON |
Musical instrument with a broken string in Holbein’s The Ambassadors | LUTE |
Clues | Answers |
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Name, meaning “east”, for the USSR’s first manned spaceflight project | VOSTOK |
Norse god who took the forms of a mare, salmon and fly | LOKI |
Real head of the family in Giles cartoons | GRANDMA |
Runner whose 19.87 200m personal best was the British record, 1994-2023 | john Regis |
Semicircular recess at a church’s east end | APSE |
Some ____s are the largest mobile man-made structures | oil tanker |
Someone who ____ can influence a decision | has a say |
Someone who ____ provides possible explanations | THEORISES |
Something that potatoes, sausages and rice puddings have | SKIN |
The first monarch to use ____ as a residence was Henry I | windsor castle |
The Grand Ballon is the highest of these French mountains | VOSGES |
The melody of the German Christmas song O ____ was used for The Red Flag | tannenbaum |
The only player who has been top scorer in English football’s top tier with three different clubs | Gary Lineker |
The sphere of record keepers with administrative duties | clerkdom |
These may be produced when someone 48A badly | sophistries |
Tip of a long process extending from a neuron’s cell body | nerve ending |
To change course by swinging a sail across a following wind | GYBE |
To make (something) less dangerous | de-risk |
Ts and Cs often say that “We reserve the right to […] as we ____” | think fit |
TV sitcom about employees of Wernham Hogg | The Office |
Type of camera lens which may produce a circular image | fish-eye |
What became Radio 4 in 1967 | Home Service |
What you can stir up to cause a commotion | hornet’s nest |
Winner of 400m hurdles bronze at the 1992 Olympics | kriss Akabusi |
Winner of 400m silver at the 1996 Olympics | roger Black |
____ painting is a name for the style of Jackson Pollock | SPLATTER |