The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 374 June 11 2023 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 374
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “On the ____” means in a state of alertness | qui vive |
| 12:50 | ten to one |
| 1983 film directed by and starring Barbra Streisand | YENTL |
| A cold leek and potato soup | VICHYSSOISE |
| A family tree | STEMMA |
| Actress who starred alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan | Rosanna Arquette |
| After Paris (1924) and London (1948), the third European city to host the summer Olympics for a second time | ATHENS |
| Another name for a woodchuck | GROUNDHOG |
| Antipodean politician who, at 37, became the world’s youngest female head of government | Jacinda Ardern |
| As a musical instruction, becoming slower, and often louder too | ALLARGANDO |
| Cereal and other crop disease marked by powdery black spores | SMUT |
| City in Washington state which hosted Expo ’74, the first environmentally themed world’s fair | SPOKANE |
| Disease caused by thiamine deficiency | BERIBERI |
| Elizabeth Allen is “The ____” in a series of four novels by Enid Blyton | Naughtiest Girl |
| English equivalent of the Italian zucchero | SUGAR |
| Four of the ten tracks on this Lightning Seeds album were issued as singles | JOLLIFICATION |
| Gabriel and Raphael, for example | ARCHANGELS |
| Game show featured in the 1992 film White Men Can’t Jump | JEOPARDY |
| Grange Hill character, played by Todd Carty, who was given his own spin-off series | Tucker Jenkins |
| In fiction, Melville’s Captain Ahab or Dickens’s Silas Wegg | AMPUTEE |
| In old military slang, a kit inspection | rag-fair |
| Jazz musician called the “Maharaja of the keyboard” by Duke Ellington | oscar peterson |
| Largest island of the Inner Hebrides | SKYE |
| Lover of Hiawatha in Longfellow’s epic poem | MINNEHAHA |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Lychnis coronaria, a popular garden plant with silvery foliage and usually bright pink flowers | rose campion |
| Mary Lennox is the main character of this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett | the secret garden |
| Mix of raw vegetables served as an hors d’oeuvre | CRUDITES |
| New Mexico city where Microsoft was founded in 1975 | ALBUQUERQUE |
| Nigeria’s capital until 1991 | LAGOS |
| Non-believing | atheistical |
| Orkney and Shetland are Scotland’s ____ | Northern Isles |
| Pietro ____ composed the 1890 opera Cavalleria Rusticana | MASCAGNI |
| Singer whose most recent non-compilation album Caution was released in 2018 | Mariah Carey |
| The colourful badlands of Arizona | Painted Desert |
| The first études written for public performance were ____s | piano piece |
| The mafia’s code of silence | OMERTA |
| The misspeaking character in The Rivals by Sheridan | Mrs Malaprop |
| The only American state bird which is a domestic breed | rhode island red |
| The ____ Star is a 1970 David Bowie single, released as a follow-up to Space Oddity | PRETTIEST |
| To go before, in time or order | ANTECEDE |
| To signify or foreshadow | BETOKEN |
| US name for a card game using a layout of sequences, called “domino” or “parliament” in the UK | fan-tan |
| Vacation centred on conservation | ECOTOUR |
| Walter Scott novel which shares its name with a whisky c*cktail | Rob Roy |
| Wicksteed Park, which includes one of Britain’s oldest amusement parks, is near this Northamptonshire town | KETTERING |
| Wood often used to make bassoons and the backs of violins | MAPLE |
| ____ and Mark Frost were co-creators of Twin Peaks | David Lynch |
| ____ omnes is an instruction for all players to leave the stage | EXEUNT |