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Saturday, June 29, 2019

The Times - Specialist - June 30 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 168
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“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 toyyo-yo
“____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain” (William Cowper)DETESTED
1950s pop genre often using unconventional instrumentsSKIFFLE
A sea mist of the east coast of England and ScotlandHAAR
A tiny amount; ninth letter of the Greek alphabetIOTA
A ____ cipher encodes letters in pairs rather than singlydigraphic
At or near the stern of a vesselAFT
BBC One crime drama starring Martin Shaw and Lee InglebyInspector George Gently
Boxer who sparred with Rocky Balboa in Rocky IIRoberto Duran
Character played by Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix filmsTRINITY
Chrysotile is the most common form of this incombustible materialASBESTOS
City destroyed by Vesuvius in AD79POMPEII
Common name for a plant of the genus GeumAVENS
Director of the 1972 film The GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola
Duran Duran single which preceded Ordinary WorldSERIOUS
Eastenders character Beppe ____ had relationships with Grant Mitchell’s wife and sisterDi Marco
Female gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth GamesClaudia Fragapane
Foodstuff that HMS Bounty was meant to take from Tahiti to the West Indies, on the voyage that ended in mutinyBREADFRUIT
French stew, especially of beef, traditionally made in a terracotta potDAUBE
Gothic arch; a cumulative frequency graph in statisticsOGIVE
Greek tragedian whose works include Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus RexSOPHOCLES
Humorist who used the pen name BeachcomberJ B Morton
In golf, with a score higher than regulationover par
In logic and mathematics, the meaning of three dots forming an upward-pointing triangleTHEREFORE
Items placed in footwear for warmth or comfortINSOLES
Leo ____ wrote the music for the ballet CoppéliaDELIBES
Madrid stadium which hosted the 2019 Uefa Champions League finalWanda Metropolitano
Mexican painter famed for his muralsDiego Rivera
Mushroom which contains the drug psilocybinliberty cap
Musical composition played in a slow, dignified mannerLARGO
NavelsUMBILICI
Neutral vowel sound represented by the letter Y in WelshSCHWA
North American animal also called “wapiti”ELK
Occurring throughout a metropolisCITYWIDE
Patrick ____ created plans for rebuilding post-war LondonABERCROMBIE
Philip Pullman trilogy consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber SpyglassHis Dark Materials
Portuguese footballer sometimes known as “O Rei” (The King)EUSEBIO
Resembling a mythical journey into the underworldORPHEAN
River which formed the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine GaulRUBICON
Simon ____ co-founded the avant-pop Penguin Cafe Orchestrajeffes
Son of King Priam ambushed and killed by AchillesTROILUS
Spray blown from the crests of wavesSPINDRIFT
The bracketed part in the title of James Brown’s most successful singleI Feel Good
The only UK No 1 single for Pink FloydAnother Brick In The Wall
The term “____ fiction” was popularised by HP Lovecraft, one of its best-known exponentsWEIRD
The ____ is the harbour wall at Lyme RegisCOBB
TV “dragon”, chairman of Millwall FC, 1995-2007Theo Paphitis
Word game also called “capping the rhyme”CRAMBO
Writer of the book and lyrics for SpamalotEric Idle

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