The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 391 October 8 2023 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 391
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the ____” (HL Mencken) | IMPROBABLE |
| “If cookery is the new rock ’n’ roll […] ____ must be the new Mick Jagger” (Penguin TV Guide) | Jamie Oliver |
| “The United States will not ____ from the world, and we will never surrender to evil” (George W Bush) | RETREAT |
| 40A once quoted this phrase, attributed to “a little old lady” in a post-lecture Q&A, which expresses the philosophical problem of infinite regress | turtles all the way down |
| A hindrance to free movement; a device for drawing 6Ds | TRAMMEL |
| A look, in originally military slang based on Arabic | SHUFTI |
| A small container or a dangerous situation | powder keg |
| A village like Anatevka in Fiddler on the Roof | SHTETL |
| Actress whose first major TV role was “Q” in Rock Follies | Rula Lenska |
| An example of this structure supports the London Eye | A-frame |
| Attempting seduction or deception | trying it on |
| Author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles |
| Benvenuto ____ was a famous goldsmith from Florence | CELLINI |
| Canadian-born architect Frank ____ designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao | GEHRY |
| Congregational minister who wrote hymns including When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and Joy to the World | Isaac Watts |
| Conscientious, or motivated by duty rather than desire | DUTIFUL |
| Currency unit abolished in Tunisia in 1958 | FRANC |
| Experience shared by Arlene Foster, Nicholas Soames and Tom Watson in 2022 | ENNOBLEMENT |
| Geographical feature such as Vatnajökull in Iceland | ice cap |
| Go back to a former condition, especially an inferior one | RETROGRESS |
| Grammatically, words like “ask”, “say” and “warn” | reporting verbs |
| Greek equivalent of the Roman god Mars | ARES |
| Hippocrates advocated a blend of salt, alum and vinegar as an early form of ____ | MOUTHWASH |
| Hugh ____ wrote the Doctor Dolittle books | LOFTING |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| In the 1950s and 1960s, Australia’s ____Rocket Range was the world’s second-busiest after Cape Canaveral | WOOMERA |
| Informally, Amanita muscaria, the usual fairy-story picture toadstool | fly agaric |
| Informally, to express contempt for (something) | sniff at |
| Kurt Vonnegut novel whose preface starts with a statement about a trademark | Breakfast of Champions |
| May Morris as an embroiderer and jeweller, or Annie Phillips as the 2022 winner of The Great British Sewing Bee | craftswoman |
| Myopic character seen mostly in US cartoons, since 1949 | Mr Magoo |
| Name that your grandparents may have used for a radio | wireless set |
| Old name of a Maryland town, home of an apparent murderer and kidnapper in a 1999 supernatural horror film | BLAIR |
| One of the two idioms suggested by Alice in Wonderland tea party attendees | mad as a March hare |
| One way to join a family is to ____ it | marry into |
| Physicist who was Cambridge University’s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, 1979-2009 | Stephen Hawking |
| Raquel and Curly ____ were a 1990s Corrie couple | WATTS |
| Small chest for holding valuables | COFFER |
| Swiss psychologist who developed the concepts of personas and complexes | JUNG |
| The eponymous devious “bio-exorcist” in a 1988 film | BEETLEJUICE |
| The Malaysian state closest to Singapore | johor |
| The oldest OED citation for this late teenage experience is from 1978 | gap year |
| The real numbers are one example of this kind of set | uncountable |
| The shape of an angled cross-section of a cylinder | ELLIPSE |
| The southernmost national park in the USA’s 50 states | hawaii volcanoes |
| Until 2008, Shredded Wheat was made at a factory in this garden city | WELWYN |
| When repeated, a comic strip representation of laughter | fnarr |
| William Howard ____ is the only person to be both president and chief justice of the USA | TAFT |
| Wish (1992) was gothic band the ____’s only No 1 album | CURE |