The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 110 May 20 2018
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword. Tags: ACCOST, ANNUM, Australia Northern Territory, Cub Scout, DRAG, Ian Kilmister, Meg Ryan, TURMERIC.
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The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 110
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘I awoke one morning and found myself famous’ (Lord Byron, about the instantaneous success of ____) | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage |
| ‘Or have we eaten on the ____ / That takes the reason prisoner?’ (Macbeth) | insane root |
| 1993 comedy drama starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan | Sleepless In Seattle |
| A pharmacologically inactive drug | PLACEBO |
| A Sanskrit religious or philosophical text | UPANISHAD |
| Actress who played Nora Charles in The Thin Man | Myrna Loy |
| Aggressively carnivorous freshwater fish | PIRANHA |
| Arboreal lizard with spiny back | IGUANA |
| Artillery fire aimed at aircraft | ack-ack |
| Biblical figure depicted on film by Hedy Lamarr and Liz Hurley | DELILAH |
| Chef whose three UK restaurants currently have six Michelin stars between them | Heston Blumenthal |
| City where Sweden’s oldest university is based | UPPSALA |
| Colloquial name for the throat | Red Lane |
| Common sense | NOUS |
| Cub Scout leader, from a Jungle Book character | AKELA |
| English rock band and the name of a 2010 arcade racing game | BLUR |
| First name of the actor who starred in The King and I and The Magnificent Seven | YUL |
| Flightless insect of the order Siphonaptera | FLEA |
| For the time being, briefly (Latin) | pro tem |
| Former heavy metal band fronted by bass guitarist Ian Kilmister | MOTORHEAD |
| Formerly, one sixteenth of a rupee | ANNA |
| Four inches | HAND |
| Francois ____ wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel | RABELAIS |
| Grammatical change to a word, often via a prefix or suffix | INFLECTION |
| Hollow lower part of a feather’s shaft | CALAMUS |
| In architecture, a cross-rib used in vaulting | LIERNE |
| Informally, what happened yesterday at Windsor and Wembley | big match |
| Merchant sailing ship, such as a tea clipper | INDIAMAN |
| Nursie’s real name in Blackadder II | BERNARD |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Part of Australia’s Northern Territory, an aboriginal reserve since 1931 | Arnhem Land |
| Philosopher who influenced Richard Wagner’s later operas | Arthur Schopenhauer |
| Plant of the ginger family used in making curry powder | TURMERIC |
| Priest who wrote the Summa Theologiae | Thomas Aquinas |
| Resistance to motion through a fluid | DRAG |
| Robert Burns was born in what is now a suburb of this Scottish town | AYR |
| Runner-up to Steffi Graf in the 1991 ladies’ singles final at Wimbledon | Gabriela Sabatini |
| Site of the house built by Soames Forsyte in A Man of Property | Robin Hill |
| Six ____ can be seen in the pit in a performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle | HARPISTS |
| Someone who may carry nuts and hexes | rock climber |
| Spherical winner of the ‘Great sweet revival’ poll held by Waitrose in 2009 | aniseed ball |
| Sulphide of mercury, used to make the pigment vermilion | CINNABAR |
| That which a creditor may chase | DEBT |
| The ‘a’ of p.a. as applied to a salary | ANNUM |
| The man who took responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion | Joseph of Arimathea |
| The radiating gills of certain mushrooms | LAMELLAE |
| The wife of Rupert Murdoch | Jerry Hall |
| The ____ Mountains run from Newfoundland to Alabama | appalachian |
| The ____’s London base is the Barbican Theatre | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Title of plays by Aeschylus and Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound |
| To approach and speak to, often menacingly | ACCOST |
| Trigonometrical function whose abbreviation is a type of lettuce | COSINE |
| Type of bow tie or sunglasses | clip-on |
| US equivalent of BSI or DIN | ANSI |
| Waterway which links the Pacific and Atlantic oceans | Panama Canal |
| Willie Garvin is the sidekick of this comic strip character | Modesty Blaise |
| With strength and durability | SOLIDLY |
| ____ substances turn litmus paper red | ACIDIC |
| ____ won the TS Eliot prize for poetry for her collection Stag’s Leap | Sharon Olds |