The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 310 March 20 2022 Crossword Answers
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword.
| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 310 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “And too many moonlight kisses / Seem to cool in the ____ of the sun” (When I Fall in Love lyrics) | WARMTH |
| 16th-century vying card game, its name meaning “first” | PRIMERO |
| 2009 romcom in which an executive’s assistant acts as her fiancé | The Proposal |
| A carpet suitable for a corridor | RUNNER |
| A white or pale heron | EGRET |
| An integer can also be called a “____ number” | WHOLE |
| Animal whose ears are often described as banana-shaped | LLAMA |
| Cary Grant starred as a shady gambler in this 1943 film | Mr Lucky |
| Comic actor remembered for a shop window illusion | Harry Worth |
| Components of a modern telecommunications cable | optical fibres |
| Country house in Kent, bought by Churchill in 1922 | CHARTWELL |
| Eric Carle’s best-known book is The ____ | Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| Forename of the jazz cornetist whose records were sought in The 27A | BIX |
| Former Labour MP Brian ____ wrote a Sunday Times column from 1986 to 1990 | WALDEN |
| Frederick ____ was the Royal Ballet’s chief choreographer until 1970 | ASHTON |
| In a motorway service station, you might use this device made by Mitsubishi or Dyson | hand dryer |
| In George Meredith’s novel The ____, Sir Willoughby Patterne can’t see why Clara Middleton doesn’t want to marry him | EGOIST |
| In music, ____ form uses contrasting sections A and B, followed by a repeat of A | TERNARY |
| John ____ was a founder of a silverware company which later created jewellery for royalty | mappin |
| King of England who was married to Anne of Denmark | James I |
| Market town at the confluence of the Tweed and Teviot | KELSO |
| Nationality of Gal Gadot, who has played Wonder Woman in four films | ISRAELI |
| Processed corundite used to make abrasive papers | emery powder |
| Recreational expedition; Swahili for “journey” | SAFARI |
| River described as “silvery” in at least four of William McGonagall’s “poetic gems” | TAY |
| Smaller cog revolving around a sun wheel | planet gear |
| Someone like Dorothy Hodgkin, Bob Dylan or Milton Friedman | nobel laureate |
| Spelt with two different vowels, the patron saint of Winchester cathedral | SWITHUN |
| Staffordshire town, reputedly spelt in more than 70 ways since it was “Wotocheshede” in the Domesday Book | UTTOXETER |
| Strudel, rugelach and baklava are ____ products | PASTRY |
| Student of the culture of South America, except for Brazil and the Guianas | hispanist |
| The Advanced ____ Reactor replaced the Magnox reactor | gas-cooled |
| The northern polar ____ can make eastbound transatlantic flights two hours shorter than westbound ones | jet stream |
| The smallest of Japan’s five main islands | OKINAWA |
| The ____ was an ITV serial about the unlikely adventures of two schoolteachers | Beiderbecke Affair |
| Ticks are vectors of the Borrelia bacteria causing ____ | Lyme disease |
| To come ____ is to return to a starting point | full circle |
| Transmission of information using a satellite | uplinking |
| TV show featuring a conveyor belt, first aired in 1971 | the Generation Game |
| Type of dress worn for informal entertaining at home | tea gown |
| Type of fountain pen nib producing thick and thin strokes | STUB |
| Usually orange toy enabling entertaining locomotion | space hopper |
| Usually wooden compartment, with a pencil on a string | voting booth |
| Where compasses in London pointed in September 2019 | true north |
| With much energy or force | like a man possessed |
| You can now play 1D’s puzzle at www. ____.com | NYTIMES |
| ____ played Wonder Woman on late 1970s TV | Lynda Carter |
| ____ Project North, focused on the sea, is expected to open in Morecambe in 2024 | EDEN |
| ____’s puzzle recently made him a dollar millionaire | josh Wardle |
| ____’s Valpinçon Bather reappears in The Turkish Bath | INGRES |