The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 133 October 28 2018
| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 133 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| "Boy, boy, crazy boy, / Get ____, boy!" (West Side Story lyrics) | COOL |
| "Ultimo" used to mean "of the ____" in business letters | last month |
| A bird that cannot yet fly | NESTLING |
| A foreign country, according to LP Hartley | the past |
| A form of vitamin B3 | NIACIN |
| A literary souvenir | signed copy |
| A major landmark in this southeast London district is a large fibreglass feline | Catford |
| A word that starts the usual name of three different countries | UNITED |
| According to Monty Python, Martin ____ could "think you under the table" | HEIDEGGER |
| Alternative to "firn" as a name for snow on its way to becoming glacier ice | NEVE |
| An old alternative to "medicine", as both healing and drugs | PHYSIC |
| An ____ novel is a series of documents, especially letters | EPISTOLARY |
| Boadicea's tribe | ICENI |
| Brief statement, often surprising or satirical | EPIGRAM |
| British comedian compared to Norman Wisdom, or the first man to run 400m in less than 44 seconds | Lee Evans |
| Calcium carbonate hanging from a limestone cave roof | STALACTITE |
| Canaan, according to the Old Testament | the promised land |
| Determine the concentration a substance in a solution by volume measurement | TITRATE |
| Edmonton is the capital of this Canadian province | ALBERTA |
| England's traditional heraldic emblem | Tudor rose |
| Foodstuff originally made in Normandy | Camembert cheese |
| Game of physical agility, first sold in the 1960s | TWISTER |
| Good example of a particular characteristic | EPITOME |
| Howard Land played The Onedin Line's Captain ____ on TV | BAINES |
| In The Full Monty, a dance move was likened to the Arsenal ____ | offside trap |
| Instrument that twice answers the celesta at the beginning of Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | bass clarinet |
| Island reached by ferry from Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull | IONA |
| Johnny Depp made his film debut in this 1984 American slasher movie | A Nightmare On Elm Street |
| Lady Godiva's husband | LEOFRIC |
| Likely to become an earworm | CATCHY |
| London district containing Battersea power station and New Covent Garden Market | Nine Elms |
| Many French kings were anointed in the Cathedral of ____ | REIMS |
| New town in Essex, planned by Frederick Gibberd | HARLOW |
| Not playing as well as one has done before | out of form |
| Novelist and goalkeeper who wrote The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| On a bicycle in the UK, this should be red, positioned centrally or offside, and between 35 and 150 cm from the ground | rear light |
| One place to keep your coppers | coin pouch |
| Possible alternative to "chip" as a burger accompaniment | onion ring |
| Process between compiling a crossword and publishing it, for example | EDITING |
| Proverbial warning about unnecessary investigation | curiosity killed the cat |
| Scorer of the final match injury-time goal that made Arsenal the 1988-9 Division One champions | michael Thomas |
| Small village and large parish, close to Cape Wrath | durness |
| Sport administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association | HURLING |
| Stories supposedly told by Florentine residents escaping the Black Death | The Decameron |
| The "corn" in corn on the cob | MAIZE |
| The area of a ____ or parallelogram is base times height | RECTANGLE |
| The first woman to run a marathon in less than two and a half hours | Grete Waitz |
| The original "____ of Europe" was the Ottoman empire | sick man |
| The school, college or university you attended is your ____ | alma mater |
| There are three in Glen Coe, and seven near Eastbourne | SISTERS |
| Thin layer of wood | VENEER |
| Town whose football team is (according to its website) named after Edward VII's wife | CREWE |
| Two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back | drophead coupe |
| Type of diaphragm used in many modern cameras | IRIS |
| What the fifth song on Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album has | no title |
| Wild urban feline | alley cat |
| Yellow creature in Despicable Me films | MINION |
| ____ geometry is about 2,300 years old, and still taught | EUCLIDEAN |
| ____ was a player in the England women's football team, 1983-98, and was its coach, 1998-2013 | Hope Powell |
| ____'s best-known operetta is The Merry Widow | Franz Lehar |
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