The Times Specialist

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 412 March 3 2024 Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “It is more important that a proposition be ____ than it be true” (Alfred North Whitehead) INTERESTING “Qu’ils mangent de la ____” (Rousseau) BRIOCHE “The Water-____ ascended thrice / And gave his doleful warning” (Wordsworth) WRAITH “Thou can’st not say ____; never ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 411 February 25 2024 Clues and Answers

Clues Answers … and what Ronnie Barker actually wanted handles for forks “All ____s are good except the tiresome kind” (Voltaire) STYLE “Friends and colleagues all ____ looked at us, treated us, slightly differently” (Neil Armstrong) of a sudden “Not half so swift the ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 408 February 4 2024 Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “I am surprised with an ____ fear” (Titus Andronicus) UNCOUTH “The children were ____ all snug in their beds” (The Night Before Christmas) NESTLED “You’ll make a mutiny among my guests, / You will set ____! You’ll be the man!” (Romeo and ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 407 January 28, 2024, Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “I will ____ my sorrows, and give way / To all the pangs and fury of despair” (Joseph Addison) INDULGE “Show me an ____, and I’ll show you a loser” (Tom Clancy) ELITIST “Whispering” presenter of The Old Grey Whistle Test Bob ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 406 January 21, 2024, Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “And leave me to this miserable death. / And then they called me foul ____” (Shakespeare) ADULTERESS “Hey, ____, so what am I so afraid of?” (The Partridge Family) I Think I Love You “How ____ to be human” (Kurt Vonnegut) EMBARRASSING ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 405 January 14 2024 Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “‘Come with uncle,’ I said, ‘and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil ____.’” (A Clockwork Orange) TROMBONES “One should never put on ____ trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth” (Ibsen) one’s best “Photography […] records / ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 404 January 7, 2024, Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with ____” (Thomas Aquinas) mortal sin 1984 romantic drama film about a high school football player and cheerleader RECKLESS A military blockade INVESTMENT A ____ victory is one gained at ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 403 December 31, 2023, Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “O ____ Absalom, ____ ____ Absalom!” (2 Samuel xviii, 33) my son “The gun […] was a toy, as you could tell really by the ____ look of it” (Ruth Rendell crime novel) plasticky A ____ king or queen has no crown ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 402 December 24, 2023, Clues and Answers

Clues Answers “Don’t use Latin phrases unless you know what they mean, and ____” (joke) vice versa “Simplicity is the final ____. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 401 December 17, 2023, Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 401 Clues Answers “Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain foiled again “Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) FOREBODES 1960 Olympic light heavyweight ...

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 “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 ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 399 December 3 2023 Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 399 Clues Answers #001 in Pokémon’s monster index bulbasaur “From ____” means all the way through start to finish “Much have I travell’d in the ____ of gold / And many goodly states and ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 398 November 26 2023 Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 398 Clues Answers “… her nostrils, so ____ of caressing breezes and amorous scents …” (Madame Bovary) GLUTTONOUS “Please ____” is an example of a pleonasm RSVP 1932 comic novel featuring several members of ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 397 November 19, 2023, Crossword Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 397 Clues Answers “In Oppley they’re smart, and in Stouch they’re ____, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy’ (John Wyndham) SMARMY “Poetry is what ____ translation. It is also what ____ interpretation” (Robert ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 396 November 12, 2023, Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 396 Clues Answers “A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without ____ it” (Oscar Wilde) paying for A casting director’s way of saying an auditionee has been ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 395 November 5, 2023, Crossword Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 395 Clues Answers “A novel that does not ____ a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral” (Milan Kundera) UNCOVER “To die will be ____” (Peter Pan) An awfully big adventure 1969 No 1 ...

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 “’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 ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 392 October 15 2023 Crossword Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 392 Clues Answers “I’ve got a problem with my legs, they just can’t walk past a ____” (Boxer Ricky Hatton) CHIPPY 1970 Beatles single on which John Lennon played a six-string bass The Long ...

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 391 October 8 2023 Crossword Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 391 Clues Answers “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the ____” (HL Mencken) IMPROBABLE “If cookery is the new rock ’n’ roll […] ____ must be the ...

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 “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 ...