The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 317 May 8 2022 Crossword Answers
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword.
| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 317 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Droopy awnings are out and only spirit-level precision works” (BBC2’s description of its ____ of the Year programmes shown in 2017) | CARAVANNER |
| “I set out to destroy socialism because I felt it was ____ with the character of the people” (Margaret Thatcher) | at odds |
| “Mobility as a service” provider, launched in the US in 2011 | UBER |
| “Take note, take note, O world! / To be ____ and honest is not safe” (Iago in Othello) | DIRECT |
| “The miserable have ____ medicine / But only hope” (Claudio in Measure for Measure) | no other |
| 1,000,000,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 | QUADRILLION |
| 1970s TV show for children, in which the main characters were Penelope Arbuckle and a local witch | Lizzie Dripping |
| A device used for leaving an aeroplane; informally, another such device | CHUTE |
| A military slang alternative to “mufti” | CIVVIES |
| A military task, or the group assigned to carry it out | DETAIL |
| A premolar tooth has buccal and lingual ____s | CUSP |
| A smell that’s usually bad | ODOUR |
| A Winter Paralympics Super-G contestant may be a ____ | monoskier |
| Another name for wampum | shell money |
| Capital of the former Duchy of Lorraine | NANCY |
| Chess piece often given a relative value of five points, a pawn being worth one | ROOK |
| Device used to transmit speech in a noisy environment | throat microphone |
| Dinnerladies canteen manager, played by Andrew Dunn | Tony Martin |
| Exercise system using very slow controlled movements | t’ai chi |
| Fast ships used to enforce customs regulations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries | revenue cutters |
| From the Greek for “places”, literary themes or formulae | topoi |
| Greek island, part of a British protectorate, 1815-64 | CORFU |
| Having many offspring, or showing love towards them | philoprogenitive |
| Hawaii’s second largest island; trickster in Polynesian myth | MAUI |
| In British history, the best-remembered event of 1605 | gunpowder plot |
| In French, a label; in English, standards of behaviour | ETIQUETTE |
| Informally, especially in a sporting context, “completely” | all ends up |
| Informally, ready and eager to participate | hot to trot |
| Larry ____ played the harmonica on the soundtrack of the film Genevieve | ADLER |
| One of the two projections close to a cannon’s centre of gravity | TRUNNION |
| One of two Status Quo members awarded OBEs in 2010 | rick Parfitt |
| Polish composer Witold ____’s third symphony was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1983 | LUTOSLAWSKI |
| Repeated use of a fabric, seen as a fashion faux pas | double denim |
| She’s ____ and He’s ____ are romcom films loosely based on Shaw’s Pygmalion | all That |
| Someone studying the Christian church or its buildings | ecclesiologist |
| Sour in taste; sharp or forthright in speech or comments | ACERBIC |
| The answer to this clue is the least interesting | GREYEST |
| The first device to execute instructions on punched cards | jacquard loom |
| The first steamship purpose-built for Atlantic crossings | Great Western |
| The kind of group depicted in TV’s Peaky Blinders series | razor gang |
| The nurse lusted after by Arkwright in Open All Hours | Gladys Emmanuel |
| The ____ blue butterfly is extinct in most of Britain | LARGE |
| Village near Kingston upon Thames, renamed when a nearby suburb was created by the arrival of a railway | Old Malden |
| Wichita ____ was a 1969 hit for Glen Campbell | LINEMAN |
| Yiddish exclamation of dismay following “Leaving Brooklyn” on a road sign on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge | oy vey |
| ____ needed much help from umpires to finish first in the 1908 Olympic marathon, and was later disqualified | Dorando Pietri |
| ____ Place in Higham, Kent, was Dickens’s last home | Gad’s Hill |
| ____ wrote the TV series Trinity Tales, about a rugby league pilgrimage, including characters like the Wife of Batley | Alan Plater |