The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 210 April 19 2020 Puzzle Solutions
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword.
| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 210 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Men ____ while they teach” (Seneca the Younger) | LEARN |
| “The spiritualisation of ____ is called love” (Nietzsche) | SENSUALITY |
| 1957 novel by Christopher Landon, later a film starring John Mills and Sylvia Syms | Ice Cold In Alex |
| 1980 single by Dire Straits; 1987 album and single by Bruce Springsteen | tunnel of love |
| A company with a ____ website may well say that it offers a better browsing experience | REVAMPED |
| Actor who played Antony Royle in The Royle Family | Ralf Little |
| Actress whose roles include Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous | Julia Sawalha |
| African country named after a lake | CHAD |
| Albrecht ____, German artist noted for his woodcut prints | DURER |
| Any computer game which seeks to replicate the real world | SIM |
| Argentinian football club based at Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti | River Plate |
| Blackpool’s largest free indoor family attraction | Coral Island |
| Breakfast in America was ____’s bestselling album | SUPERTRAMP |
| Celebrity hair stylist awarded an OBE in 2008 | Nicky Clarke |
| Chinese fruit with a soft but inedible covering (shortest of various spellings) | LICHI |
| Current captain of the England women’s cricket team | Heather Knight |
| Driver of the Compact Pussycat in the Wacky Races cartoons | Penelope Pitstop |
| Egyptian city on the Suez canal, founded by the ruling khedive in 1863 and named after him | ISMAILIA |
| Electronic instrument played without touching it | THEREMIN |
| Fee paid to secure someone’s services | RETAINER |
| First name of the femme fatale of a 1988 comedy film starring John Cleese | WANDA |
| Footless representation of a bird in heraldry | MARTLET |
| Former naval term for bread rather than ship’s biscuit | soft tack |
| George Orwell novel originally subtitled A Fairy Story | Animal Farm |
| German director of films including Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders |
| Heaviest noble gas, produced by the decay of uranium-238 | RADON |
| In cricket, a short-pitched ball, typically easy to hit | long hop |
| In Greek myth, a female Bacchanalian | MAENAD |
| In organic chemistry, an ____ group is a vinyl group attached to a methylene bridge, and is named after the Latin for garlic | ALLYL |
| Inhabitants of an ancient Greek city central to Bronze Age culture | mycenaeans |
| Mountain range running the length of the Italian peninsula | APENNINES |
| Murder on the Dancefloor was a big hit single for ____ | Sophie Ellis-Bextor |
| Nincompoops | HALFWITS |
| Old word for a huntsman; star destroyer class in Star Wars | venator |
| Old-fashioned name for both Irish and Scottish Gaelic | ERSE |
| One who uses flattery to persuade | WHEEDLER |
| One whose native tongue may be Wendish, Czech, Serbian etc | SLAV |
| Opera which begins and ends in a garret | La Boheme |
| Pertaining to the ancient Persian god of light, identified with the sun | MITHRAIC |
| Popular name for the park including the venue of the US Open tennis championships | Flushing Meadows |
| Portuguese former goalkeeper, manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers since 2017 | Nuno Espirito Santo |
| Raymond Burr played Erle Stanley Gardner’s ____ on TV | Perry Mason |
| Small variety of cos lettuce | Little Gem |
| The canonical hour between terce and nones | SEXT |
| The smallest country of Central America | El Salvador |
| To get out of bed or make an appearance | show a leg |
| Turkish equivalent of Mr | BEY |
| Urticaria, or hives, is often called ____ rash | NETTLE |
| Where, according to British culture, it’s “grim” | up north |
| ____ won 21 grand slam titles with Martina Navratilova | Pam Shriver |