| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 152 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| '… a spirit too delicate / To act her ____ and abhorred commands' (The Tempest) | EARTHY |
| 'Enjoyment of the landscape is a ____' (David Hockney) | THRILL |
| 1987 lead single from the U2 album The Joshua Tree | With Or Without You |
| 2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| 2010 action comedy film starring Bruce Willis | RED |
| A newspaper, especially one regarded as inferior | RAG |
| A self-replicating software virus | WORM |
| According to a Virgil epic poem, a Trojan ancestor of the Romans | AENEAS |
| Activity which may make use of heddles and treadles | WEAVING |
| Anne Frank died of this disease | TYPHUS |
| Blondie song used in the 1980 film American Gigolo | Call Me |
| Capital of the former Duchy of Lorraine | NANCY |
| Character spurned by John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility | Marianne Dashwood |
| Chemical element, atomic number 33 | ARSENIC |
| Clarified pig fat | LARD |
| Colonel ____ was created by the cartoonist David Low | BLIMP |
| Concentrated extract of active constituents | ESSENCE |
| Dense brushwood of the southwestern US | CHAPARRAL |
| England’s third smallest city by population | RIPON |
| Extremely distressing | TRAGIC |
| Film title shared by Buster Keaton in 1925 and the Marx Brothers in 1940 | Go West |
| Former managing director of Homebase and chief executive of WH Smith | Kate Swann |
| Gains an advantage over (another person) | one-ups |
| Hardened forewings of certain insects, not used to fly | ELYTRA |
| In Peter Pan, Captain Hook's bo'sun | SMEE |
| Informally, a French infantryman of the First World War | POILU |
| ITV sci-fi fantasy series starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum | Sapphire and Steel |
| Lead character in the Millennium novels of Stieg Larsson | Lisbeth Salander |
| Lead guitarist of Steppenwolf until 1969 | Michael Monarch |
| Liberal Party politician who served four terms as prime minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Lightly scented perfumes | eaux de cologne |
| London thoroughfare, home to Madame Tussauds | Marylebone Road |
| Marine fish of the Labridae family | WRASSE |
| Monty Python's Piranha brothers were based on the ____ twins | KRAY |
| Musical instrument seen on TV in cough sweet advertising | ALPHORN |
| Old Testament book of 21 verses, mainly about the downfall of Edom | OBADIAH |
| On its website, the ____ claims to be 'America's longest-standing civil rights organization' | NRA |
| Pouches formerly worn on the front of breeches | CODPIECES |
| Sanctioned | OKAYED |
| Sea-shell whose plural can be spelt with an unexpectedly missing 'e' | CONCH |
| Second of TS Eliot's Four Quartets | East Coker |
| Severe protein malnutrition often affecting newly weaned children, most common in equatorial Africa | kwashiorkor |
| Short name for a polynucleotide with a relatively small number of nucleotides | OLIGO |
| Star of the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac | Gerard Depardieu |
| Sticky substance, or sentimentality | GOO |
| The family of carpet beetles | dermestidae |
| The Golden ____ is the first relic acquired by Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark | IDOL |
| Third highest mountain in the world | KANGCHENJUNGA |
| Twisting | TORSION |
| Various early Scottish kings were buried on the island of ____ | IONA |
| Venice's market district | RIALTO |
| ____ played Cathy in the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt | Jacqueline Bisset |
Saturday, March 9, 2019
The Times - Specialist - March 10 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer
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