The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 110 Crossword Solution
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 110 Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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‘I awoke one morning and found myself famous’ (Lord Byron, about the instantaneous success of ____) | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage |
‘Or have we eaten on the ____ / That takes the reason prisoner?’ (Macbeth) | insane root |
1993 comedy drama starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan | Sleepless In Seattle |
A pharmacologically inactive drug | PLACEBO |
A Sanskrit religious or philosophical text | UPANISHAD |
Actress who played Nora Charles in The Thin Man | Myrna Loy |
Aggressively carnivorous freshwater fish | PIRANHA |
Arboreal lizard with spiny back | IGUANA |
Artillery fire aimed at aircraft | ack-ack |
Biblical figure depicted on film by Hedy Lamarr and Liz Hurley | DELILAH |
Chef whose three UK restaurants currently have six Michelin stars between them | Heston Blumenthal |
City where Sweden’s oldest university is based | UPPSALA |
Colloquial name for the throat | Red Lane |
Common sense | NOUS |
Cub Scout leader, from a Jungle Book character | AKELA |
English rock band and the name of a 2010 arcade racing game | BLUR |
First name of the actor who starred in The King and I and The Magnificent Seven | YUL |
Flightless insect of the order Siphonaptera | FLEA |
For the time being, briefly (Latin) | pro tem |
Former heavy metal band fronted by bass guitarist Ian Kilmister | MOTORHEAD |
Formerly, one sixteenth of a rupee | ANNA |
Four inches | HAND |
Francois ____ wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel | RABELAIS |
Grammatical change to a word, often via a prefix or suffix | INFLECTION |
Hollow lower part of a feather’s shaft | CALAMUS |
In architecture, a cross-rib used in vaulting | LIERNE |
Informally, what happened yesterday at Windsor and Wembley | big match |
Merchant sailing ship, such as a tea clipper | INDIAMAN |
Nursie’s real name in Blackadder II | BERNARD |
Clues | Answers |
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Part of Australia’s Northern Territory, an aboriginal reserve since 1931 | Arnhem Land |
Philosopher who influenced Richard Wagner’s later operas | Arthur Schopenhauer |
Plant of the ginger family used in making curry powder | TURMERIC |
Priest who wrote the Summa Theologiae | Thomas Aquinas |
Resistance to motion through a fluid | DRAG |
Robert Burns was born in what is now a suburb of this Scottish town | AYR |
Runner-up to Steffi Graf in the 1991 ladies’ singles final at Wimbledon | Gabriela Sabatini |
Site of the house built by Soames Forsyte in A Man of Property | Robin Hill |
Six ____ can be seen in the pit in a performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle | HARPISTS |
Someone who may carry nuts and hexes | rock climber |
Spherical winner of the ‘Great sweet revival’ poll held by Waitrose in 2009 | aniseed ball |
Sulphide of mercury, used to make the pigment vermilion | CINNABAR |
That which a creditor may chase | DEBT |
The ‘a’ of p.a. as applied to a salary | ANNUM |
The man who took responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion | Joseph of Arimathea |
The radiating gills of certain mushrooms | LAMELLAE |
The wife of Rupert Murdoch | Jerry Hall |
The ____ Mountains run from Newfoundland to Alabama | appalachian |
The ____’s London base is the Barbican Theatre | Royal Shakespeare Company |
Title of plays by Aeschylus and Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound |
To approach and speak to, often menacingly | ACCOST |
Trigonometrical function whose abbreviation is a type of lettuce | COSINE |
Type of bow tie or sunglasses | clip-on |
US equivalent of BSI or DIN | ANSI |
Waterway which links the Pacific and Atlantic oceans | Panama Canal |
Willie Garvin is the sidekick of this comic strip character | Modesty Blaise |
With strength and durability | SOLIDLY |
____ substances turn litmus paper red | ACIDIC |
____ won the TS Eliot prize for poetry for her collection Stag’s Leap | Sharon Olds |