The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 375 June 18 2023 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 375
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “… and the continent / Weary of solid firmness, melt itself / ___ ” (Henry IV, Part II) | into the sea |
| “’Twas brillig, and the ____ …” (Jabberwocky) | slithy toves |
| “I’ve figured out that the ‘____’ is the best part of life” (Jerry Seinfeld) | non-event |
| “Roast very rare. Allow to cool and roll into pie crust … Slice in portions and serve with sauce Madire” (part of the earliest OED citation for this dish) | beef wellington |
| A high official under Ottoman rule | VIZIER |
| A long, thin cigar | PANATELLA |
| A short TV sequence showing the channel name | IDENT |
| Abracadabra or hocus-pocus | INCANTATION |
| Alessandro and his son Domenico ____ were Italian composers | SCARLATTI |
| Alpine expert whose name means “inhabitant of an eastern country” | SHERPA |
| Another name for the Inquisition | Holy Office |
| Architectural style of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris | Louis Treize |
| Baguettes | French sticks |
| Capital of North Korea | PYONGYANG |
| Chant of a Hindu religious sect | Hare Krishna |
| Dickens character; a rock band formed in London in 1969 | Uriah Heep |
| Faction involved in political intrigue | CABAL |
| Familiarly, Janet Hubert’s character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Aunt Viv |
| Finger food in Fuengirola | TAPAS |
| Free-standing pieces of abstract art | STABILES |
| Grassland of South America | LLANO |
| In Greek myth, ____ led Cretan forces in the Trojan War | IDOMENEUS |
| In zoology, pregnant | GRAVID |
| Informal name (reflecting a former location) of a team recently relegated from EFL League One | MK Dons |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Little Rock is the capital of this US state | ARKANSAS |
| Long-limbed | LEGGY |
| Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak of the ____ | Australian Alps |
| Number of charges on which Donald Trump was arraigned on April 4, 2023 | thirty-four |
| Parisian fashion house owned by Puig since 1998 | Nina Ricci |
| Pickled flower buds used as a garnish | CAPERS |
| Poetically, a precious metal | ORE |
| Rod-shaped bacteria | BACILLI |
| Second largest of Jupiter’s satellites | CALLISTO |
| Short name for an anti-racism movement founded in 2013 | BLM |
| Siberian ____, which is actually extracted from pine trees, can be used as chewing gum and an incense ingredient | cedar resin |
| Singer whose real name was Arnold Dorsey | Engelbert Humperdinck |
| Son of Claudius poisoned, aged 13, on the orders of his half-brother Nero | britannicus |
| Spike Lee’s co-star in the 1989 film Do the Right Thing | Danny Aiello |
| Stand-in for Buckingham Palace in the film The King’s Speech | Lancaster House |
| Subject of the longest entry in the Oxford Companion to German Literature | GOETHE |
| Surname of the actress who frequently starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni | LOREN |
| That which uses pre-paid return envelopes | business reply service |
| The only Spanish actress to have won an Oscar | Penelope Cruz |
| The pet in this sitcom was probably the biggest anachronism in TV history | The Flintstones |
| Ursus arctos, common to Eurasia and North America | brown bear |
| Viverrine which preys on snakes and rats | MONGOOSE |
| Where news stories are edited | COPYDESK |
| ____ may be considered a political all-rounder | Imran Khan |