The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 099 March 4 2018
Published in The Times Specialist Crossword. Tags: Alan Carr, New York, SINUS, UK.
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 099
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| 1984 film about guerrilla warfare, starring Patrick Swayze | Red Dawn |
| 2-amino-4-methylpentanoic acid, an essential diet protein | LEUCINE |
| 99 of these constituted a 1984 UK hit for Nena | Red Balloons |
| A hooded coat, of a kind originally used in the Arctic | ANORAK |
| A requirement demanded as part of an agreement | STIPULATION |
| A rocky peak | TOR |
| Actress who won a best actress Oscar for Annie Hall | Diane Keaton |
| Alan Carr, in the title of his 2009-2016 TV show | Chatty Man |
| Another name for swede | RUTABAGA |
| Any cavity in an organ or tissue, often one near the nose | SINUS |
| Bespectacled Pakistani batsman, the first to score three consecutive ODI centuries | Zaheer Abbas |
| British Army soldier such as a lance corporal or sergeant | NCO |
| British name for a quadrilateral with no parallel sides | TRAPEZOID |
| Capital city of the Nato phonetic alphabet | LIMA |
| Capital of Kansas | TOPEKA |
| Chief financial officer of an early Roman Empire province | PROCURATOR |
| Comedian, the comic foil to her husband George Burns | Gracie Allen |
| Driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1988, 1990, and 1991 | Ayrton Senna |
| Forename of Herr Flick in the sitcom ’Allo ’Allo! | OTTO |
| Formerly Haddingtonshire, area which contains the town of Musselburgh | east lothian |
| German-born American theologian, author of Systematic Theology | Paul Tillich |
| German-Jewish family, prominent in European banking since the 18th century | OPPENHEIM |
| Hawaiian dish made by mashing taro corms | POI |
| Hazel ____, Labour Party chair before Harriet Harman | BLEARS |
| Jack Judge music hall song, allegedly written as a five-shilling bet | It’s a Long Way to Tipperary |
| Jacob Marley’s profession in A Christmas Carol | ACCOUNTANT |
| Lintel of a door or window | TRANSOM |
| Low upholstered seat, often also serving as a chest | OTTOMAN |
| Mountain range running from Italy to Albania | Dinaric Alps |
| Multi-event cycling competition, currently of six events | OMNIUM |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Musketeer captain who served under Louis XIV | D’Artagnan |
| Obstructions in blood vessels | EMBOLI |
| Of a horse, white with patches of another colour (except black) | SKEWBALD |
| Oklahoma city, the “Oil Capital of the World” | TULSA |
| One of two Muppets characters named after New York hotels | WALDORF |
| Satirical Jacobean comedy by Thomas Middleton | A Chaste Maid in Cheapside |
| Sect of Judaism portrayed as self-righteous in the New Testament | PHARISEES |
| Seventh sign of the zodiac | LIBRA |
| Short jacket worn by men in Spain and women elsewhere | BOLERO |
| Silly ____ is the legside fielder closest to the bowler | mid-on |
| Sir Basil Henry ____ supported German rearmament after the Second World War | Liddell Hart |
| Small craft which ferries items for sale to a moored or anchored ship | BUMBOAT |
| Spanish first name, ultimately derived from a name for James, son of Zebedee | DIEGO |
| Spike of tiny flowers on a fleshy stem | SPADIX |
| Sport which features back pockets and rovers | Australian rules football |
| The application, by a wind instrument player, of their lips and other parts of the mouth | EMBOUCHURE |
| The European bison | WISENT |
| The last gaming console manufactured by Sega | dreamcast |
| The only planet in the solar system with a density less than that of water | SATURN |
| The Red Sea is an inlet of this body of water | indian ocean |
| The world’s most populous landlocked country | ETHIOPIA |
| The ____, 1974 Broadway musical, later filmed, based on the popular tale of Dorothy | WIZ |
| Thomas ____ was Archbishop of Canterbury 1533-1555 and edited the Book of Common Prayer | CRANMER |
| Title of three English sovereigns, reigning 1189-99, 1377-99, and 1483-85 | King Richard |
| To sell a property and buy a more expensive one | trade up |
| Tour de France winner in 1986, 1989, and 1990 | Greg LeMond |
| Until 1967, the UK body which proposed changes in taxation to government | Committee of Ways and Means |
| US singer who had a No 2 UK hit in 1991 with Baby Baby | Amy Grant |
| West Indian criminal gang member | YARDIE |
| ____ Frazer, one-time love interest of Nathan Drake in the Uncharted video games | CHLOE |