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.
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 |