The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 104 April 8 2018
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword. Tags: ADAMS, ARCHELAUS, Europa League, Lee Iacocca, Miami Vice, Paris, Rob Roy, Tennessee Williams.
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 104
| Clues |
Answers |
| “Mad Dan” ____, a character in The Goon Show |
ECCLES |
| ‘Religion’s in the heart, not the ____’ (Douglas Jerrold) |
KNEE |
| ‘They dined on mince and slices of quince, / Which they ate with a ____’ (Edward Lear) |
runcible spoon |
| 1941 Disney animation whose protagonist’s only friend is a mouse called Timothy |
DUMBO |
| 1987 legal drama film starring Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley |
SUSPECT |
| 1997 historical drama starring Morgan Freeman |
AMISTAD |
| A 100th anniversary |
CENTENNIAL |
| A Manhattan made with Scotch instead of rye or bourbon |
Rob Roy |
| A small tree with pale purple flowers |
LILAC |
| A type of thick gruel |
LOBLOLLY |
| Alternative name for the eleventh month of the French revolutionary calendar |
fervidor |
| American Indian, the first to meet the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony |
samoset |
| Australian state whose capital is Brisbane |
QUEENSLAND |
| Author of The Glass Menagerie |
Tennessee Williams |
| Automobile executive whose 1984 autobiography was a best-seller |
Lee Iacocca |
| Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease |
pneumococci |
| Capital of the East Flanders province of Belgium |
GHENT |
| Column in a newspaper, by its chief writer |
EDITORIAL |
| Compatriot team beaten by FC Porto in the 2011 Europa League final |
BRAGA |
| Crime drama series whose central characters were Crockett and Tubbs |
Miami Vice |
| Director of the 1971 film The Last Picture Show |
Peter Bogdanovich |
| Enclosed saltwater area in which sea animals such as dolphins are kept and tamed |
SEAQUARIUM |
| English cricketer who took his 400th Test wicket against New Zealand in March 2018 |
Stuart Broad |
| Fictional captain, also known as Prince Dakkar, created by Jules Verne |
NEMO |
| First wife of Henry VIII |
Catherine of Aragon |
| Former BBC newsreader and presenter of the first two series of Top Gear |
Angela Rippon |
| Herb used in Scandinavian and eastern European cuisine |
DILL |
| In computing, a single instance of a repeated instruction |
ITERATION |
| In Greek mythology, the last king of Troy |
PRIAM |
| Influential blues guitarist, a long-standing collaborator of Beth Hart |
Joe Bonamassa |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Jockey who won the 2016 Grand National on Rule The World |
David Mullins |
| Marsh bird noted for its booming call |
BITTERN |
| Members of one branch of Islam |
SHIITES |
| Minister for the Olympics 2005-2010 |
Tessa Jowell |
| Name of French origin for a horse-drawn hackney carriage |
FIACRE |
| Nebraska’s largest city |
OMAHA |
| Organisation headed by Audrey Azoulay and headquartered in Place de Fontenoy, Paris |
UNESCO |
| Pharisee who helped prepare Christ’s body for burial after the crucifixion |
NICODEMUS |
| Practical joker of German folklore, depicted in a Richard Strauss tone poem |
Till Eulenspiegel |
| Richard ____ wrote Watership Down |
ADAMS |
| Samuel Johnson’s Prince of Abissinia |
RASSELAS |
| Sculpture by Auguste Rodin |
The Thinker |
| Siamese cat with dark brown fur on face, paws, and tail |
SEALPOINT |
| Significant escape of blood from the circulatory system |
HAEMORRHAGE |
| Site of an infamous 1960 massacre in South Africa |
sharpeville |
| South American rodent related to the guinea pig |
CAVY |
| South Korean car manufacturer, defunct since 1999 |
DAEWOO |
| Spanish city with a Burial of the Sardine festival on the Saturday after Easter |
MURCIA |
| The garden where Jesus and his disciples slept the night before the crucifixion |
GETHSEMANE |
| The Jewish Feast of Lots |
PURIM |
| The plump, winged boy of renaissance and baroque art |
PUTTO |
| The twin city of Saint Paul |
MINNEAPOLIS |
| There are approximately 2025 yards in a ____ mile |
NAUTICAL |
| Thin strip of wood often used in plastering |
LATH |
| To believe, or to assume provisionally |
SUPPOSE |
| Type of sun hat; an African antelope |
TOPI |
| Workplace for some political journalists |
press gallery |
| ____ I ruled Macedon from 413 to 399 BC |
ARCHELAUS |
| ____ Upon Everything was a book with advice on topics such as ‘Invalid soup’, ‘To kill flies’, and ‘Charades’ |
Enquire Within |
| ____… with Jools Holland, a BBC live music show |
LATER |