The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 151 | |
Clues | Answers |
'I could ____ a Mandrake Restorative Draught in my sleep' (Lockhart, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) | whip up |
'The answer to this is carefully' (Delia Smith on How to ____) | boil an egg |
2007 Disney film combining live action filming, traditional animation and CGI | ENCHANTED |
Children's Literature: Series created by Dr Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham | beginner Books |
Classical Literature: In Terence's play The ____, the title character is a present from Phaedria to Thais | EUNUCH |
English Literature: Scriptwriter who created the Daleks | terry Nation |
Food: Writer given most credit for leading British tastes in a new direction, from the 1950s onwards | elizabeth David |
Music: Paired percussion instrument created in Cuba, around 1900 | BONGOS |
The Bible: In St Paul's writing, a charismatic preacher | APOSTLE |
The English Language: George Bernard Shaw said there were touches of the philologist and phonetician Henry ____ in Pygmalion | SWEET |
A Great Highland ____ usually has three drones | BAGPIPE |
A ____ is intended to keep rain out of a tent | storm flap |
Alloy of lead, tin and antimony, developed by Gutenberg | type metal |
Alloy, usually not including the second metal in its name | nickel silver |
Ancient alphabet of the British Isles, now only visible on stone monuments | OGAM |
Australian informal expression for 'unimpressive' — a British equivalent with one letter inserted | not much chop |
Author of the 1947 novel Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry |
Avenue where the Tour de France has finished since 1975 | Champs-Elysees |
Behaving arrogantly or condescendingly | on one's high horse |
Clothing design technique popularised in the late 1960s | tie-dye |
Drug called diamorphine when prescribed for pain relief | HEROIN |
Female badgers | SOWS |
Foodstuff also known as hardtack | ship's biscuit |
Full, especially with food | REPLETE |
Highlight of music hall performances by Wilson, Keppel and Betty | sand dance |
In 2008, Paul ____ became the first black British manager in England’s top football division | INCE |
In Greek myth, Apollo's twin sister | ARTEMIS |
In Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates's ____ | NIECE |
Informally, an athlete like Emil Zatopek or Mo Farah | distance runner |
Italics in clues indicate one of the seven ____ books owned by today's setter, as a source of the Q and A | oxford Companion |
Items offered on Gumtree are often '____' | in good condition |
Labour party leader between Lansbury and Gaitskell | ATTLEE |
Large shopping centre just off the M25 near Dartford | bluewater |
Marine arthropod often seen in fossil form | TRILOBITE |
One who gives up easily | DEFEATIST |
Poet like Pindar or Horace | ODIST |
Possible part of the process of solving a crossword clue | aha moment |
Ruling family in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy | GROAN |
Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is mostly set in ____ | PADUA |
Showjumper Richard ____ won three Olympic gold medals | MEADE |
Sign that an exchange is ready to initiate a phone call | dialling tone |
The beautiful witch in the 1964-72 TV sitcom Bewitched | SAMANTHA |
The lingua franca of the Hanseatic League | Middle Low German |
This pass was the scene of a battle between Persians and outnumbered Greeks | THERMOPYLAE |
Weight redistribution device used in winter walks | SNOWSHOE |
William Ralph ____, Dean of St Paul's cathedral, was nominated three times for the Nobel prize for literature | INGE |
____ at End House is the sixth Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot | PERIL |
____ Elkins was the eponymous character in a 1960s film | ALFIE |
____ particles include neutrinos and bosons | SUBATOMIC |
____ played male and female school heads in 1950s British comedy films | Alastair Sim |
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