| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 153 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Thou art not so unkind / As man's ____' (As You Like It) | INGRATITUDE |
| 'Richard of York gave battle in vain' for example | MNEMONIC |
| 'She cut her hair and her ties to the past' is an example of this figure of speech | ZEUGMA |
| '____ is fine — but human nature is finer' (John Keats) | SCENERY |
| 1971 novel by V S Naipaul, winner of that year’s Booker Prize | In a Free State |
| A large merchant sailing ship | WINDJAMMER |
| Alphabet used for Slavonic languages | CYRILLIC |
| An alternative to 'strength' and 'schnapps' as an eight-letter word with one vowel | SCHMALTZ |
| An ____ order allows search and seizure of evidence without warning | Anton Piller |
| Beirut is the capital of this country | LEBANON |
| Canadian province to the east of Ontario | QUEBEC |
| Changing position to gain advantage | manoeuvring |
| Church partition surmounted by a crucifix, many of which were destroyed in the Reformation | rood screen |
| Cricketer who captained England in the early 1960s | Ted Dexter |
| Current top-ranked British male tennis player | Kyle Edmund |
| Easternmost point on the Republic of Ireland’s mainland | Wicklow Head |
| Feeding on any kind of food available | OMNIVOROUS |
| Fictional detective introduced in The Mysterious Affair at Styles | hercule poirot |
| German sausage | WURST |
| Gordon Ramsay has recently added a vegan ____ to the menu at his Bread Street Kitchen | ROAST |
| Greek Muse of tragedy | MELPOMENE |
| Informally, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance | Warsaw Pact |
| Items of furniture, especially in kitchens | UNITS |
| Local official in Anglo-Saxon England | REEVE |
| New town in Hertfordshire; birthplace of golfer Nick Faldo | Welwyn Garden City |
| One setting of the sitcom Gavin & Stacey | BILLERICAY |
| Part of the body to which the word “ungual” applies | NAIL |
| Pension off | SUPERANNUATE |
| Protagonist of Gustave Flaubert's debut novel | Emma Bovary |
| Rappel | ABSEIL |
| Small red fruit, rich in vitamin C | ROSEHIP |
| Spanish province between Malaga and Almeria | GRANADA |
| The 'man-cub' of stories by Rudyard Kipling | MOWGLI |
| The centimetre-gram-second unit of work | ERG |
| The herb Salvia officinalis | SAGE |
| The last character to speak in Hamlet | FORTINBRAS |
| The oldest male tennis player to play in two Grand Slam finals in the same year | Ken Rosewall |
| The original 'It girl' | Clara Bow |
| The pop duo of Richard Drummie and Peter Cox | Go West |
| The slow ____ is a nocturnal primate | LORIS |
| The ____, popular title of Skrik by Edvard Munch | SCREAM |
| To do something 'pour ____ les bourgeois' is to attempt to create a sensation | EPATER |
| To soak in liquid to loosen fibres | RET |
| Type of snake which gives birth to live young | BOA |
| Wading bird of the sandpiper family with long, downcurved bill | CURLEW |
| Winterbourne is the suitor in this 1879 novella by Henry James | Daisy Miller |
| Wonderful to tell (Latin) | mirabile dictu |
| ____ paper may also be used for dictionaries | BIBLE |
| ____ played Esmerelda in the 1957 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Gina Lollobrigida |
| ____, Carrick and Cumnock is a Scottish parliamentary constituency created in 2005 | AYR |
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The Times - Specialist - March 17 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer
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