The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 392 October 15 2023 Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 392
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “I’ve got a problem with my legs, they just can’t walk past a ____” (Boxer Ricky Hatton) | CHIPPY |
| 1970 Beatles single on which John Lennon played a six-string bass | The Long and Winding Road |
| 1980s TV show featuring detectives Crockett and Tubbs | Miami Vice |
| A mild weakness or idiosyncrasy | FOIBLE |
| A newspaper’s financial news department | city desk |
| A prerogative of mercy in the UK | royal pardon |
| A teacher of equestrianism | riding master |
| Alfredo ____ was the first footballer to win a second Ballon d’Or, in 1959 | Di Stefano |
| America’s opponents in the Ryder Cup | Team Europe |
| Ancient Greek sea god who could change his own shape | PROTEUS |
| Asperger’s syndrome is one form of this condition | AUTISM |
| Bobby ____ wrote My 60 Memorable Games | FISCHER |
| Brideshead Revisited character with a teddy bear called Aloysius | Sebastian Flyte |
| Cartoon character with a noted Brooklyn accent | Bugs Bunny |
| Cattle very similar to (or crossed with) Friesians | HOLSTEINS |
| Commercially disastrous 1987 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty | ISHTAR |
| Compulsory force or threat | DURESS |
| Geri Halliwell’s 1990s stage name | Ginger Spice |
| Imaginary line which crosses a country named after it | EQUATOR |
| In 1957 ____ became the first alcoholic drink advertised on British TV | BABYCHAM |
| In Doctor Who, the original home of the Time Lords | gallifrey |
| Island whose capital is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas | Tristan da Cunha |
| Jaime ____ was a Filipino cardinal who participated in inevitable jokes about his name | SIN |
| Jessup’s outburst to Kaffee in A Few Good Men | You can’t handle the truth |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Komodo dragon, for example | monitor lizard |
| Lifestyle guru portrayed by Cybill Shepherd in 2003 and 2005 films | Martha Stewart |
| Maker of Golden Shred marmalade | Robertson’s |
| Martin ____ was the editor of the Sunday Times, 2013-2020 | ivens |
| North African capital on the Mediterranean | ALGIERS |
| One mile is approximately three Chinese ____ | LIS |
| Poet celebrated on Royal Mail stamps in 1988 | Edward Lear |
| Polish name for the city in modern Belarus where a 1918 treaty between Soviet Russia and Europe’s Central Powers was signed | brzesc |
| Reproducing without fertilization | AGAMIC |
| Shirley Bassey classic from the musical Sweet Charity | Big Spender |
| Song with which an artist is most closely identified | signature tune |
| Sprinter who won three Olympic gold medals in 1960 | Wilma Rudolph |
| The Jackdaw of ____ is a chapter in The Ingoldsby Legends | RHEIMS |
| The residence of Shakespeare’s Macbeth | Glamis Castle |
| The ____ bone supports the tongue, and is the only human bone not connected directly to another bone | HYOID |
| The ____ Dragon Pursuivant and ____ Croix Pursuivant are junior officers of the College of Arms | ROUGE |
| This canonised Archbishop of Canterbury described God as “something than which nothing greater can be thought” | ANSELM |
| US country singer born Brenda Webb in 1951 | Crystal Gayle |
| Volunteer workers in US hospitals, named after their original uniforms | candy-stripers |
| Where the Bee Gees came from | isle of man |
| ____ Gap is where the River Mersey narrows just before reaching its estuary | RUNCORN |
| ____ Milano played Phoebe Halliwell in Charmed | ALYSSA |
| ____ Suspension Bridge spans the Avon Gorge | CLIFTON |
| ____, formerly known as Pleasant Island, is almost on the 43A | NAURU |