The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 346 November 27 2022 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 346
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “Abused ____ is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity” (Robinson Crusoe) | PROSPERITY |
| “That dress I married you in was a hand-me-down from a ____ rich cousin I hated” (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof soundtrack) | SNOTTY |
| 1946 film which was novelist Raymond Chandler’s first original screenplay | The Blue Dahlia |
| 1960s British rock band fronted by Eric Burdon | The Animals |
| A stretch of grassy turf | SWARD |
| Actor whose name is an anagram of I GET ORDERS | Rod Steiger |
| Alternative to “act” for laws passed by parliament without royal assent during the English Civil War | ORDINANCE |
| Amusing as opposed to odd | funny ha-ha |
| An arable farm storage building | GRANARY |
| An experimenter or quack | EMPIRIC |
| An illicit love affair | LIAISON |
| At an elevation of over 1000m, Europe’s highest capital city | Andorra La Vella |
| Body of water on which most of Italy’s west coast lies | Tyrrhenian Sea |
| Character in The Goon Show occasionally referred to as Mad Dan | ECCLES |
| Co-star of Ricky Gervais in the romantic comedy film The Invention of Lying | Jennifer Garner |
| Country whose currency is the quetzal | GUATEMALA |
| Dickens novel about a young girl born and raised in a debtors’ prison | little dorrit |
| Document which is evidence of property ownership | title deed |
| Dua Lipa’s second studio album, released in March 2020 | Future Nostalgia |
| Eulogies | ENCOMIA |
| Familiar name of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor | appassionata |
| Feasts for former college members, especially at Oxford University | gaudies |
| First gymnast to score a perfect 10.0 at the Olympics | Nadia Comaneci |
| Food, in Australian and New Zealand slang | TUCKER |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Former world No 1 tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the US | Monica Seles |
| French culinary term for leaf vegetables like lettuce and sorrel, cut into shreds or strips and used as a garnish | chiffonnade |
| Inflammation of the joints of the backbone | spondylitis |
| Italian region whose capital is Bologna | Emilia-Romagna |
| Olympic rowing champion partnered by Heather Stanning and Polly Swann | Helen Glover |
| Pertaining to pimples | papular |
| Prefix relating to water | AQUA |
| Professional whose title is usually preceded by “real” in the US | estate agent |
| Sancho ____, the squire of Don Quixote | PANZA |
| Small dishes for dishes like crème brûlée | RAMEKINS |
| Small river fish of the carp family | CHUB |
| South African winner of the 1984 Nobel peace prize | Desmond Tutu |
| Star Trek character played by Marina Sirtis | Deanna Troi |
| That which transmits nerve cell impulses | AXON |
| The capital of North Korea | PYONGYANG |
| The instrumental Chi Mai by Ennio Morricone translates to the English ____ | WHOEVER |
| The last entirely female force in the British Army, disbanded in 1992 | WRAC |
| The lover of Dido in classical legend | AENEAS |
| The proboscis monkey genus | NASALIS |
| The ____ de Paris is believed to be the world’s oldest hospital, founded in AD561 | Hotel-Dieu |
| Threaded fastening devices designed to be turned by hand | wing nuts |
| To ____ on something is to clarify or help to explain it | shed light |
| Video game franchise featuring adventurer Nathan Drake | UNCHARTED |
| ____ won an Oscar for her first film role (Funny Girl) | Barbra Streisand |