The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 347 December 4 2022 Crossword Answer List
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 347
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “O God defend me, how am I ____!” (Much Ado about Nothing) | BESET |
| “Though his barque cannot be lost, / Yet it shall be ____-tossed” (First Witch, Macbeth) | TEMPEST |
| 1988 comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito | TWINS |
| 2011 album by Britney Spears | femme fatale |
| A Brazilian palm and its yellowish wax | CARNAUBA |
| A carrycot typically made of wicker | Moses basket |
| A white wine of the Loire Valley | MUSCADET |
| Actress who played Mia in Pulp Fiction | Uma Thurman |
| Body of water between Australia and New Guinea | Torres Strait |
| City of northern Italy on the River Adige | TRENTO |
| Co-star of Hattie Jacques in several BBC sitcoms | Eric Sykes |
| Company like Cammel Laird or Harland and Wolff | SHIPBUILDER |
| Cornish coastal ruins closely associated with King Arthur | Tintagel Castle |
| Egyptian mummification material made from plastered layers of linen or papyrus | cartonnage |
| English name for the Danish port in which Hamlet is set | ELSINORE |
| English star of 1920s musical revues and 1930s comedy and musical films, who later played Mrs Dale on BBC radio | Jessie Matthews |
| Equivalent of John Lennon in the fictional Ruttles band | Ron Nasty |
| Existing before the creation of the world | antemundane |
| Flexor muscle of the upper arm or thigh | BICEPS |
| Former RAF base near Newbury, closed in 1992 | Greenham Common |
| French producer of liqueurs and spirits, created by a 1990 merger | Remy Cointreau |
| Greek “fate”, personified as Clotho, Lachesis or Atropos | MOIRA |
| In geology, rich in silica | ACIDIC |
| In Scottish and Northern English dialect, trifling or fastidious | niffy-naffy |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| In US spelling, the second word of this item of furniture is often replaced by a room in which it might be found | chaise longue |
| In weightlifting, a ____ is lifting the bar to the shoulders and standing up | CLEAN |
| Indo-Aryan language written in a Perso-Arabic script | URDU |
| Jess ____ presented Stars on Sunday on ITV in the 1970s | YATES |
| Latin phrase expressing hope that something undesirable does not happen | absit omen |
| Leather straps used to tether hawks in falconry | JESSES |
| London’s SW14 postcode includes Mortlake and ____ | East Sheen |
| Long-muzzled dog created in the 19th century by a German tax collector (US name) | Doberman pinscher |
| New Zealand actress who, aged 11, won an Oscar for her role in The Piano | Anna Paquin |
| Nickname of the London’s Burning character Bert Quigley | SICKNOTE |
| Pass in the Appalachian Mountains, used by pioneers to reach Kentucky and Tennessee | Cumberland Gap |
| Richard Gere’s co-star in the 2002 film Unfaithful | Diane Lane |
| River on the eastern edge of the small area of Belgium not occupied by Germany for most of the First World War | YSER |
| Smoky quartz named after a Scottish mountain range | CAIRNGORM |
| The capital city of Nicaragua | MANAGUA |
| The capital of Burkina Faso | OUAGADOUGOU |
| The Comic Strip comedian who later voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the film Minions | Jennifer Saunders |
| The L of AWOL | LEAVE |
| The ____ measures the specific gravity of a sugar solution | Brix Scale |
| Title of a deputy taoiseach | TANAISTE |
| Under way | AFOOT |
| US hip hop group founded by Chuck D and Flavor Flav in 1985 | Public Enemy |
| Variety of porcelain made using bone ash | SPODE |
| ____ in Cardiff is responsible for the registration of businesses in England and Wales | Companies House |