The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 145 January 20 2019
| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 145 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| 1936 poem and documentary film about a postal train | Night Mail |
| 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat about the crew of HMS Compass Rose during the Second World War | The Cruel Sea |
| 1960s French cinematic movement with a simple underrated style, and sometimes dogmatically political content | Nouvelle Vague |
| A Braeburn or Tydeman’s Late Orange is such a fruit | Winter apple |
| A business deal, or a set of related changes to a database | TRANSACTION |
| A female foreigner, in French | etrangere |
| A nickname for Melbourne or Sydney, first used by Australian aborigines | The Big Smoke |
| A preface or preliminary matter | Avant-propos |
| A proposed slogan, “Browns, Seasons, Thickens In One” was supposedly the source of this product’s name | BISTO |
| A quack | CHARLATAN |
| Argol, the acidic deposit on the inside of a bottle of port | CRUST |
| Asian river on the banks of which the ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa flourished between 2600BC and 1900BC | INDUS |
| Athenian courtesan who induced Alexander the Great to set fire to the palace of the Persian kings at Persepolis | THAIS |
| Avoider of military service, such as Donald Trump | Draft dodger |
| Breed of large white beef cattle | CHAROLAIS |
| Cambridge Footlights star who later played Patsy’s mother in Absolutely Fabulous | Eleanor Bron |
| Canadian prime minister after whom Montreal’s international airport is named | Pierre Trudeau |
| Cavalry soldier fighting with a curved single-edged sword | SABREUR |
| Charles ____ directed the 1953 film version of 34 Down | frend |
| Claudio ____, Chilean pianist famed for his absorbing master classes | ARRAU |
| Composer born in Dresden (a district of Stoke-on-Trent) | Havergal Brian |
| Court with a reputation for harshness, abolished in 1641 | Star Chamber |
| David ____ was the tenth Doctor to travel in the Tardis on BBC television | TENNANT |
| Display stands with shelves for small objects or ornaments | ETAGERES |
| Edward ____ wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ALBEE |
| Form of pasta traditionally served with ragu bolognese | TAGLIATELLE |
| Frederick ____ & Co, publisher of the Observer’s series of books and Beatrix Potter’s tales | WARNE |
| From the Latin for “shoe”, another name for slipperwort | CALCEOLARIA |
| Germany’s northern state which borders Denmark | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Godfrey ____, “arguably the best wicket keeper the game has ever seen” according to Wisden | EVANS |
| Hic ____, “here lies” on a tombstone inscription | JACET |
| His latest (2018) novel is Middle England | Jonathan Coe |
| In an orchestra, these instruments are sometime seen both left and right of the conductor | VIOLINS |
| Inhabitants of an ancient kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, maybe living in Assur or Nineveh | ASSYRIANS |
| It helps to maintain one’s dignity or prestige | face-saver |
| Lives in basic and unaccustomed circumstances | Roughs it |
| Meaning of the “clearway” road sign | No Stopping |
| Numbers such as 512, 2197 and 8000 | CUBES |
| One of Tom Stoppard’s “dead” tragicomic characters | ROSENCRANTZ |
| One quarter | Twenty-five percent |
| Pen y Fan is the highest mountain in this Welsh national park | Brecon Beacons |
| Peninsula forming the western part of County Galway | CONNEMARA |
| Pictorial logic puzzles also called griddlers | nonograms |
| Quick recovery wish | Get well soon |
| Seat of Florida State University since 1857 | TALLAHASSEE |
| Soft fresh cheese with the consistency of thick yoghurt | Fromage frais |
| Suburb of Brussels where Erasmus lived, or Belgium’s most successful football team in European competitions | anderlecht |
| The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization | Star Wars |
| The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band’s Death Cab for ____ was an Elvis Presley parody | CUTIE |
| The capital of France’s Aveyron department | rodez |
| The chief Norse gods dwelling in Asgard | AESIR |
| The smallest European rodent, for which old tennis balls with a drilled hole make good nests | Harvest mouse |
| The ____, 1 Across’s portrait of the 1970s | Rotters' Club |
| Thomas ____, whose Summer’s Lost Will and Testament contains the song Spring, the Sweet Spring | NASHE |
| What a player leading 6-5 and 40-30 has in tennis | Set point |
| Winner of the 1957 Nobel prize for literature | Albert Camus |
| Writes down music | NOTATES |
| ____ Arantes do Nascimento is better known as Pelé | EDSON |
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