| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 168 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “If those to whom power is ____ do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised” (Thomas Paine) | DELEGATED |
| “Walk the dog” is a famous trick with this toy | yo-yo |
| “____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain” (William Cowper) | DETESTED |
| 1950s pop genre often using unconventional instruments | SKIFFLE |
| A sea mist of the east coast of England and Scotland | HAAR |
| A tiny amount; ninth letter of the Greek alphabet | IOTA |
| A ____ cipher encodes letters in pairs rather than singly | digraphic |
| At or near the stern of a vessel | AFT |
| BBC One crime drama starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby | Inspector George Gently |
| Boxer who sparred with Rocky Balboa in Rocky II | Roberto Duran |
| Character played by Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix films | TRINITY |
| Chrysotile is the most common form of this incombustible material | ASBESTOS |
| City destroyed by Vesuvius in AD79 | POMPEII |
| Common name for a plant of the genus Geum | AVENS |
| Director of the 1972 film The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Duran Duran single which preceded Ordinary World | SERIOUS |
| Eastenders character Beppe ____ had relationships with Grant Mitchell’s wife and sister | Di Marco |
| Female gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games | Claudia Fragapane |
| Foodstuff that HMS Bounty was meant to take from Tahiti to the West Indies, on the voyage that ended in mutiny | BREADFRUIT |
| French stew, especially of beef, traditionally made in a terracotta pot | DAUBE |
| Gothic arch; a cumulative frequency graph in statistics | OGIVE |
| Greek tragedian whose works include Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus Rex | SOPHOCLES |
| Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber | J B Morton |
| In golf, with a score higher than regulation | over par |
| In logic and mathematics, the meaning of three dots forming an upward-pointing triangle | THEREFORE |
| Items placed in footwear for warmth or comfort | INSOLES |
| Leo ____ wrote the music for the ballet Coppélia | DELIBES |
| Madrid stadium which hosted the 2019 Uefa Champions League final | Wanda Metropolitano |
| Mexican painter famed for his murals | Diego Rivera |
| Mushroom which contains the drug psilocybin | liberty cap |
| Musical composition played in a slow, dignified manner | LARGO |
| Navels | UMBILICI |
| Neutral vowel sound represented by the letter Y in Welsh | SCHWA |
| North American animal also called “wapiti” | ELK |
| Occurring throughout a metropolis | CITYWIDE |
| Patrick ____ created plans for rebuilding post-war London | ABERCROMBIE |
| Philip Pullman trilogy consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass | His Dark Materials |
| Portuguese footballer sometimes known as “O Rei” (The King) | EUSEBIO |
| Resembling a mythical journey into the underworld | ORPHEAN |
| River which formed the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul | RUBICON |
| Simon ____ co-founded the avant-pop Penguin Cafe Orchestra | jeffes |
| Son of King Priam ambushed and killed by Achilles | TROILUS |
| Spray blown from the crests of waves | SPINDRIFT |
| The bracketed part in the title of James Brown’s most successful single | I Feel Good |
| The only UK No 1 single for Pink Floyd | Another Brick In The Wall |
| The term “____ fiction” was popularised by HP Lovecraft, one of its best-known exponents | WEIRD |
| The ____ is the harbour wall at Lyme Regis | COBB |
| TV “dragon”, chairman of Millwall FC, 1995-2007 | Theo Paphitis |
| Word game also called “capping the rhyme” | CRAMBO |
| Writer of the book and lyrics for Spamalot | Eric Idle |
Saturday, June 29, 2019
The Times - Specialist - June 30 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer
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