The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 395 November 5, 2023, Crossword Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 395
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “A novel that does not ____ a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral” (Milan Kundera) | UNCOVER |
| “To die will be ____” (Peter Pan) | An awfully big adventure |
| 1969 No 1 single by fictional band the Archies | Sugar Sugar |
| 2006 film starring Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin | The Last King of Scotland |
| A high-pressure weather system | ANTICYCLONE |
| A Second World War Royal Australian Air Force member | Blue Orchid |
| A small dog, probably originally from China; informally, a (human) boxer | PUG |
| Actor who won several awards for his role as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad | Aaron Paul |
| Adding something like gravel to a railbed or a ship’s bilge | ballasting |
| An artillery wagon, or a watertight structure | CAISSON |
| An usher in a Scottish law court | MACER |
| Brian Murphy’s co-star in the sitcom George and Mildred | Yootha Joyce |
| Connected series of texts by early Christian theologians | CATENA |
| Ethiopian runner who broke the women’s world record at the 2023 Berlin Marathon | Tigst Assefa |
| Familiar name of the Roman poet Publius ____ius Naso | OVID |
| Feint is a name for some ____ paper | LINED |
| Giant ____ are the world’s largest kind of antelopes | ELANDS |
| Having been apprehended and manacled | in cuffs |
| In the Russian-based Nadsat language of A Clockwork Orange, “____show” means “excellent” | HORROR |
| Item of Japanese clothing which may be tied in the taiko musubi style | OBI |
| Land mass comprising the mainlands of two countries and part of a third, the largest of its kind in Europe | Scandinavian Peninsula |
| Legal drama series whose title appeared as a Californian licence plate | LA Law |
| Major ingredient of some kinds of halva | sesame paste |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Melodious or entrancing, in the style of a mythical poet | ORPHEAN |
| Members of a ruling elite | OLIGARCHS |
| Name adopted by militant female campaigners for women’s voting rights, though it was first used insultingly in the Daily Mail | SUFFRAGETTE |
| Of an object in a video game, to appear in an environment | SPAWN |
| Ornamental screen behind an altar | REREDOS |
| Pacific region containing about two thirds of the world’s volcanoes | Ring of Fire |
| Second half of the first line of My Way, as sung by Frank Sinatra | end is near |
| Since 2006, this blended wine must be at least 70 per cent Sangiovese, and use no white grapes | CHIANTI |
| Small marsupial, also called rat-kangaroo | POTOROO |
| Small vessels towed behind larger ones | cockboats |
| Soft-centred and sweeter version of an originally American confection | chocolate fudge brownie |
| Solving a problem by force | cutting the Gordian knot |
| Sri Lankan city which, minus its fifth letter, is a type of orange | Jaffna |
| That which, perhaps surprisingly, did not feature in the original Kama Sutra | erotic art |
| The “people’s princess’ | Lady Diana |
| The ____ Company’s staging of Mykola Lysenko’s adaptation of Natalka Poltavka was their last before a 2022 invasion | Kyiv Opera |
| To criticise (something) harshly | pull apart |
| Type of lens invented by Benjamin Franklin | BIFOCAL |
| US drama series set at St Eligius Hospital in Boston | St Elsewhere |
| Very clearly; for a specific purpose | EXPRESSLY |
| ____ has replaced cash registers in many large shops | electronic point of sale |
| ____ is now known as Uluru | Ayers Rock |
| ____ West (played by Kevin Kline) is the main antagonist in A Fish Called Wanda | OTTO |