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 |
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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 |
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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 |