The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 163 May 26 2019
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword. Tags: ABSCONDERS, Paris, Sally Bowles, UNUSUAL.
| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 163 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “That’s me darling. ____ places, ____ love affairs” (Sally Bowles, in the 1972 Cabaret film) | UNUSUAL |
| “____, could, would — they are contemptible auxiliaries” (George Eliot) | MIGHT |
| 1961 film which ends with a search for a cat | Breakfast At Tiffany’s |
| 1990 teen musical romantic comedy film starring Johnny Depp as the eponymous character | Cry-Baby |
| A participant in certain online auctions | ebayer |
| According to an Office for Budget Responsibility forecast, Britain’s state ____ could reach 70 by the mid-2060s | pensionable age |
| An electron or positron emitted in radioactive decay | beta particle |
| An Englishman after whom a US state capital is named | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Asian pear variety which is not “pear-shaped” | NASHI |
| Baked dessert containing caramelised fruit | tarte Tatin |
| Bicycle ____ Man was a parody superhero in a Monty Python sketch | REPAIR |
| Birmingham’s ____ building appears in a Windows 7 desktop background | SELFRIDGES |
| British commander at the battle of Omdurman, who later appeared on a First World War recruitment poster | General Kitchener |
| Disease also known as hog cholera | swine fever |
| English city name translating another Down answer | NEWCASTLE |
| Euphemistic description of bad sporting performance | off-day |
| Fantastical creature functioning as a long waterspout | GARGOYLE |
| Frame marking one square metre areas in plant research | QUADRAT |
| Gitega has recently replaced Bujumbura as the capital of ____ | BURUNDI |
| Historic Methodist church in London’s City Road | Wesley’s Chapel |
| Hornless cattle breed, originally from northeast Scotland | aberdeen angus |
| In 1979, Pietro ____ set a 200m world record in Mexico City, which is still the European record | mennea |
| In astronomy, a point on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator | EQUINOX |
| In eastern India, the Ganges splits into the ____ and Hooghly | PADMA |
| In Greek myth, the personification of the evening star | HESPERUS |
| In ice skating, a toe jump taking off from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot | FLIP |
| In Scotland, a reel, jig or strathspey | country dance |
| Indonesian ____ was added to Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009 | BATIK |
| Joint for which the Latin is cubitum | ELBOW |
| Light brown type of sugar, originally from Guyana | DEMERARA |
| List of passengers and cargo on a plane or ship | MANIFEST |
| Long gun of the 15th century | ARQUEBUS |
| Northernmost point on Great Britain’s mainland | Dunnet Head |
| People fleeing to escape prosecution or punishment | ABSCONDERS |
| Philosopher, one of very few Germans commemorated in Kaliningrad, formerly Konigsberg | KANT |
| Siberian city where Dostoyevsky was imprisoned | OMSK |
| Terence Rattigan play of 1976, surprisingly for one actor | DUOLOGUE |
| The Bayer pharmaceutical company is based in this city in North Rhine-Westphalia | LEVERKUSEN |
| The largest square in Paris | Place de la Concorde |
| The only winner of three Olympic 100m freestyle golds | Dawn Fraser |
| The river ____ flows through Carlisle to the Solway Firth | EDEN |
| The ____ coast is a tourist destination on the gulf of Salerno | AMALFI |
| The ____ of Greece were 6th-century BC philosophers and politicians renowned for wisdom | Seven Sages |
| Tony ____ won one grand slam title in singles and thirteen in doubles, twelve with John Newcombe | ROCHE |
| Town, lake and canton in French-speaking Switzerland | NEUCHATEL |
| Version of “pale”, normally describing faces | ASHEN |
| Wine, windows and coal were all once ____ in Britain | TAXED |
| Yeast is used to ____ dough | AERATE |
| ____ engineering adds or removes DNA | GENETIC |
| ____ set a new record for a single-handed circumnavigation of the world in 2005 | Ellen MacArthur |