The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 319 May 22 2022 Crossword Solutions
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 319
Clues | Answers |
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“The wife, where danger or ____ lurks, / Safest and seemliest by her husband stays” (Paradise Lost) | DISHONOUR |
“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is ____” (Bertolt Brecht) | subjugated |
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open ____ and die.” (Mel Brooks) | SEWER |
A continuous discharge of firearms | FUSILLADE |
A decree, from Latin for “let it be done” | FIAT |
A policeman or police force, from a PC created by Enid Blyton | PLOD |
A wine connoisseur | OENOPHILE |
Actress best known for her role as Demelza in the costume drama Poldark | Angharad Rees |
Actress who first appeared as Sharon Watts in EastEnders in 1985 | Letitia Dean |
Artist who designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo | salvador dali |
As food, the stomach lining of a cow or other ruminant | TRIPE |
Ascorbic acid is the main cure for this disease | SCURVY |
Breed of horse often used in dressage and show jumping | WESTPHALIAN |
Capital of Italy’s Umbria region | PERUGIA |
Church festival celebrated on January 6 | EPIPHANY |
Device which amplifies microwaves | MASER |
Forerunners of electric refrigerators | ICEBOXES |
Iceland’s “ring road”, Route 1, was partly ____ until 2019 | UNPAVED |
In binomial nomenclature, “sempervirens” denotes ____ plants | EVERGREEN |
In Bleak House, ____ secretly marries Richard Carstone | Ada Clare |
In camping, ____ are supported by poles or frames at each end | ridge tents |
London district reached by a southern extension of the Docklands Light Railway in 1999 | LEWISHAM |
Monument at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle | arc de triomphe |
Not subjected to hindrance | UNIMPEDED |
Clues | Answers |
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Of a court case, rejected | DISMISSED |
Old name for a painter of portraits or miniatures | LIMNER |
Prime minister of Canada, 1968-79 and 1980-84 | Pierre Trudeau |
Racing driver who took over the French Ligier team in 1997 | Alain Prost |
Rome’s Trevi Fountain was turned off and draped in black after the death of this actor in 1996 | Marcello Mastroianni |
Salad greens related to chicory | ENDIVES |
Sci-fi author who created the minisaga, a story of just 50 words | Brian Aldiss |
Scottish singer-songwriter who fronted new wave band the Tourists | Annie Lennox |
Singer who made her film acting debut in The Bodyguard | Whitney Houston |
Sitcom which was a sequel to Till Death Us Do Part | In Sickness and in Health |
The BBC’s chief news correspondent, 1989-2003 | Kate Adie |
The bobcat is a type of ____ | LYNX |
The imprisoned banker in The Shawshank Redemption | Andy Dufresne |
The inner peel of a citrus fruit | PITH |
The structure which houses Big Ben | Elizabeth Tower |
The USA’s second largest state | TEXAS |
Tony ____ was Spandau Ballet’s lead singer | HADLEY |
Tool typically used to fix or remove spark plugs | box spanner |
Umbrian city whose cathedral has a west front designed by Lorenzo Maitani | ORVIETO |
Upper arm bones | HUMERI |
VW model named after a wind from North Africa | SCIROCCO |
What absolute power does absolutely, according to Lord Acton | CORRUPTS |
What Caesar reportedly said after his Pontic campaign | veni vidi vici |
____, Sweet Charlotte (1964) featured Mary Astor in her final film role | Hush Hush |