The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 123 Crossword Solution
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 123 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “Il serenissimo principe” was a name for the ____ of Venice | DOGE |
| “It is better to have a permanent ____ than to be fascinating” (Oscar Wilde) | INCOME |
| “The Brain—is wider than the Sky— / For—put them side by side— / The one the other will ____” (Emily Dickinson) | CONTAIN |
| 18th-century composer Thomas ____ wrote Rule Britannia | ARNE |
| 1933 Fannie Hurst novel, filmed in 1934 and 1959 | Imitation Of Life |
| 1997 action thriller starring Nicolas Cage and John Cusack | Con Air |
| A heroic poem, or modern retail technology | EPOS |
| Alcoholic drink, consumed in the Second World War US navy, which included grain alcohol fuel | torpedo juice |
| An Indian game hunter | SHIKARI |
| Andrew ____ was George Michael’s partner in Wham! | ridgeley |
| Artist who said “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs” | DALI |
| Author of Nana and Germinal | Emile Zola |
| Binary code used to represent font characters | ASCII |
| British rock band led by Ritchie Blackmore | RAINBOW |
| Cadbury Roses chocolate in a pink wrapper | Strawberry Dream |
| Canopied seat on an elephant’s back | HOWDAH |
| Central defender for Benfica in the 1980s and 1990s who won five caps for Portugal | Samuel Quina |
| Cheapside watering hole frequented by Elizabethan literary figures in the Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen | Mermaid Tavern |
| Colombia’s second largest city | medellin |
| Construction toy invented by Joel Glickman in 1992 | K’Nex |
| English adaptation of Jacques Brel’s Le Moribond, a hit for Terry Jacks in 1973 and Westlife in 1999 | Seasons In The Sun |
| Famously soft-voiced snooker commentator who died in 2011 | Ted Lowe |
| Fee paid to secure professional services; a household servant | RETAINER |
| Fictional character besotted with classmate Becky Thatcher | Tom Sawyer |
| Flapping | in a panic |
| French philosopher and priest who took part in the discovery of Peking Man | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| Frozen dew, hoarfrost | RIME |
| Full name of the character played by Hannah Murray in Skins | Cassandra Ainsworth |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Heavy metal band whose albums include Master of Puppets | METALLICA |
| Henry VIII’s almoner and later Archbishop of York | Thomas Wolsey |
| Herring-like fish, its name sometimes extended to ____ shad | TWAITE |
| In drama, Aristotle’s three unities are those of ____, time and place | ACTION |
| Journal-like posting on a platform such as YouTube | VLOG |
| Known as Baby Face Nelson, the criminal partner of John Dillinger | Lester Gillis |
| L Frank ____ wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | BAUM |
| Measurement or datum derived from an experiment | OBSERVATION |
| Polish biochemist noted for his work on, and naming of, vitamins | Casimir Funk |
| Published in 1920, F Scott Fitzgerald’s debut novel | This Side of Paradise |
| Rank held by a warrant officer class 1 in the army or Royal Marines | regimental sergeant major |
| Shakespeare play, more fully ____, King of Britain | CYMBELINE |
| Surname shared by male and female British comedians | BRAND |
| The “raving ones”, females who took part in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus | MAENADS |
| The epiploon or greater ___ is a fold of membrane supporting the viscera | OMENTUM |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | QUASIMODO |
| The only recording artist to have had (US) No 1 albums in each of the past six decades | Barbra Streisand |
| The Roman god of death | MORS |
| The superhero alter ego of Peter Parker | Spider-Man |
| The United States Army Special Forces | Green Berets |
| Thick Japanese noodles | UDON |
| To take away enthusiasm or courage | DISHEARTEN |
| Treasurer of, typically, a college or university | BURSAR |
| Using a rod and line | ANGLING |
| Where it is allowed, a plea of nolo ____ is often part of a plea bargain | contendere |
| ____ Lee is the central character in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | LORELEI |
| ____ won 52 titles as John McEnroe’s doubles partner | Peter Fleming |
| ____’s Decathlon was a computer game released in 1984 | Daley Thompson |