The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 167 June 23 2019
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword. Tags: BAIKAL, Sangster International Airport, St John, US.
| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 167 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real ____” (William Penn) | BENEFIT |
| 1947 novel by Compton Mackenzie | Whisky Galore |
| A large bread roll | BAP |
| A type of chicory with reddish-purple leaves | RADICCHIO |
| A ____ latte uses low-fat or non-fat milk | SKINNY |
| Agony aunt once known as Rebecca Rayle | Marjorie Proops |
| An absurd pretence; an episode in a word game | CHARADE |
| Briefly | in short |
| Catlike carnivore, source of a strong musky perfume | CIVET |
| City served by Sangster International Airport; a 1970 hit for Bobby Bloom | Montego Bay |
| City where the Trans-Siberian railway crosses the river Ob | NOVOSIBIRSK |
| Cold dish of various meats and greens including avocado | Cobb salad |
| Dark red resin used in varnishes and dyes | LAC |
| Deformation which turns a rectangle into a parallelogram | SHEAR |
| Defrayal | PAYMENT |
| Director of the noir films Laura (1944) and Fallen Angel | Otto Preminger |
| Document or other item which is legally void | NULLITY |
| Felt hat apparently named after a play by Victorien Sardou | FEDORA |
| For many years Judith ____’s paintings were attributed to Frans Hals, or her husband Jan Molenaer | leyster |
| Hat named after a George du Maurier novel of 1894 | TRILBY |
| Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy character, also called Ix | Ford Prefect |
| In an ____ kiss, the lips do not touch | AIR |
| In Ancient Greece, a religious sanctuary dedicated to Zeus | OLYMPIA |
| In the Bible, the first son of Abraham | ISHMAEL |
| Information gathered but not yet analysed or processed | raw data |
| Inner chamber of a kiln used to fire pottery | MUFFLE |
| Island where England and France’s first Caribbean colonies were located | St Kitts |
| Island whose largest settlement is St John’s | NEWFOUNDLAND |
| Japanese company created in 1939 by the merger of Tokyo Denki and Shibaura Seisaku-sho | TOSHIBA |
| Jazz standard from the 1930 musical Girl Crazy | I Got Rhythm |
| Lady Macbeth’s second line in Act 5 of Macbeth | out damned spot |
| Member of the Nicaraguan rebel group which deposed President Somoza in 1979 | SANDINISTA |
| Motto abbreviated on Bénédictine liqueur bottle labels | Deo Optimo Maximo |
| Movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, subtitled With the Dead in a Dead Language | CATACOMBS |
| Nickname given to the Labour party’s former chief fundraiser Baron Levy | Lord Cashpoint |
| Northamptonshire town formerly called Lactodurum | TOWCESTER |
| Online name of Brighton-based YouTuber Felix Kjellberg | pewdiepie |
| Partnered by Helen Glover, rower who won two Olympic gold medals in the women’s coxless pairs | Heather Stanning |
| Plants of the sedge family, once a source of writing material | PAPYRI |
| Satellite which has been continuously inhabited since 2000 | ISS |
| Saturday morning TV show which aired from 1974-1982 | TISWAS |
| Scottish crime novelist who sometimes writes as Jack Harvey | Ian Rankin |
| Slave of Marcus and Stylax in the sitcom Plebs | GRUMIO |
| Sustained, as a musical direction | TENUTO |
| The “wise men” of Matthew 2:1 | MAGI |
| The 13th or 15th day of months in the Roman calendar | IDES |
| The UK version of this game show was hosted by Paul Daniels and Bob Monkhouse | WIPEOUT |
| The world’s largest freshwater lake by volume | BAIKAL |
| Thomas Keneally novel that won the 1982 Booker Prize | Schindler’s Ark |
| Town near Stockport whose railway station is said to have led to the naming of an iconic Agatha Christie character | MARPLE |
| US television series created by Earl Hanmer Jr, based on his book Spencer’s Mountain | The Waltons |
| ____ played Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love | Gwyneth Paltrow |