| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 159 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| 1923 Pulitzer prize winner for One of Ours | Willa Cather |
| 1962 single by Nancy Sinatra; 2018 single by David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Brooks | Like I Do |
| 1984 musical film starring Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer | FOOTLOOSE |
| A pin for holding the hair in place | BARRETTE |
| A small carnivore or a type of antelope | SABLE |
| A symptom of kidney failure | anuria |
| About 25 per cent of the UK’s groups of ____ are recognised by the Royal Navy | Sea Scouts |
| Actor who founded southeast London’s Dulwich College | Edward Alleyn |
| Actress and singer who was Hollywood’s “Sarong Queen” | Dorothy Lamour |
| Afrikaans term for a foreigner, such as a British immigrant in 19th-century Transvaal | uitlander |
| Archipelago formerly known as the New Hebrides | VANUATU |
| Author of How Green Was My Valley | Richard Llewellyn |
| Author of the Metamorphoses | OVID |
| Blade which may be attached to a rifle muzzle | BAYONET |
| Breathing tube inserted after a tracheotomy | CANNULA |
| Cassiterite is the only commercially important ____ | tin ore |
| Central California city, a gateway to the Sierra Nevada | FRESNO |
| Chris ____ played Roy Trenneman in The IT Crowd | O'Dowd |
| Company which published the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus in 1852 | longman |
| Constellation noted for the “W” shape of its brightest stars | CASSIOPEIA |
| Cylindrical firm cheese produced in France’s Auvergne region | CANTAL |
| Dickens character whose dog is called Bull’s-eye | Bill Sikes |
| District of London in which Enid Blyton was born | DULWICH |
| Fictional character who has affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis | Emma Bovary |
| Game show first shown in September 2008 on BBC Four | Only Connect |
| Hilary Mantel novel documenting the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell | Wolf Hall |
| In astronomy, an informal alternative to “circumstellar” as a description of a habitable zone | GOLDILOCKS |
| In literature or music, a recurring theme | LEITMOTIF |
| In old slang, a ____-worry was a tea-party | MUFFIN |
| Insectivore of the Soricidae family | SHREW |
| Jamaican musical genre, a precursor to reggae | SKA |
| James Joyce novel which revolves around the Earwicker family | Finnegans Wake |
| Location which inspired the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire | Ilkley Moor |
| Oily secretion which lubricates hair and skin | SEBUM |
| One sixth of a drachma in ancient Greece | OBOL |
| Opera in which the eponymous character’s father is the Emperor Altoum | TURANDOT |
| Paul Theroux novel adapted into a 1986 film | The Mosquito Coast |
| Resembling skin | DERMATOID |
| Robbie Coltrane played Rubeus ____ in Harry Potter films | HAGRID |
| The current world chess champion | Magnus Carlsen |
| The distinctive standards of an institution or individual | ETHOS |
| The European Space Agency’s programme contributing to the International Space Station | COLUMBUS |
| The headquarters of the Council of Europe are in ____ | STRASBOURG |
| The Isle of Bute is in the ____ | Firth of Clyde |
| The most recent Grand National winner sponsored by a company of the same name | SEAGRAM |
| The only member of Robin Hood’s Merry Men present in the most common account of his death | Little John |
| The President of India | Ram Nath Kovind |
| The proboscis monkey is the only member of this genus | NASALIS |
| The ____ Peninsula separates the Thames and Medway estuaries | HOO |
| Two-pronged attachment to a boat, for securing ropes | CLEAT |
Saturday, April 27, 2019
The Times - Specialist - April 28 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer
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