| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 165 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Enthusiasm is the ____ of man; it is the passing of the human to the divine” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | HEIGHT |
| 1990s antiques quiz show aired on BBC Two | Going Going Gone |
| 2004 demolition derby racing game developed by Bugbear Entertainment | FLATOUT |
| A name for a pompous individual, apparently originated by Rudyard Kipling | little tin god |
| A narrow marine passage | STRAIT |
| A plant of the Euphrasia genus, used by herbalists | EYEBRIGHT |
| A senior executive in the former Board of Admiralty | Sea Lord |
| A small piece of software which runs within another | APPLET |
| A village in the Netherlands or South Africa | DORP |
| A ____ aims to achieve socialism by gradual rather than revolutionary means | FABIAN |
| Actor who played Lukewarm in the sitcom Porridge | Christopher Biggins |
| BBC sitcom which starred Robert Lindsay as “Wolfie” | Citizen Smith |
| Born Solomon Cohen, a star of the Carry On films | Sid James |
| Clemenceau’s response to Woodrow Wilson’s “____ points” on post-war peace was “____? The good Lord had only ten” | FOURTEEN |
| Condition affecting social communication and interaction | AUTISM |
| Echo, ____, Hotel | GOLF |
| EM Forster novel containing the line “Adventures do occur, but not punctually” | A Passage to India |
| Fermented rye drink, sold from tanks in Russian city streets | KVASS |
| Feudal allegiance | FEALTY |
| French-born pirate who helped to defend New Orleans from the British in the final battle of the War of 1812 | Jean Lafitte |
| In 2009, ____ McLeod was the first black player to qualify for the World Snooker Championship | RORY |
| In cell cytoplasm, organelles which store and release energy | MITOCHONDRIA |
| Italian actress and daughter of Ingrid Bergman | Isabella Rossellini |
| Latin American percussion instrument made from a gourd | GUIRO |
| Latin word used in an abbreviated form when citing a work already cited | IBIDEM |
| Location of Italy’s busiest airport | FIUMICINO |
| Natural covering such as skin or exoskeleton | INTEGUMENT |
| Original presenter, for 25 years, of University Challenge | Bamber Gascoigne |
| Phoebe’s identical twin in Friends | URSULA |
| Poisonous gas used in the First World War | PHOSGENE |
| Pollex | THUMB |
| Ritualistic martial art, literally “way of the sword” | KENDO |
| Sesame Street’s saxophone-playing owl | HOOTS |
| Shabby hotel or unkempt person | FLEABAG |
| Singer of Arcade, winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest | Duncan Laurence |
| Small arachnid feeding on blood | TICK |
| Stupor-producing drug | NARCOTIC |
| Sugar-refining equipment which raises liquid by air or steam pressure | monte-jus |
| The Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture | DEMETER |
| The Ottoman empire’s equivalent of a prime minister | Grand Vizier |
| The three days before Ash Wednesday | SHROVETIDE |
| To “lay by the ____” is to put (someone) in fetters | HEELS |
| Trade name for the sedative drug also called quinalbarbitone | SECONAL |
| Until July 2016, Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory housed the world’s largest radio telescope | ARECIBO |
| Violet-scented substance used in perfumery | orris root |
| ____ hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics | salt lake city |
| ____ in Tunisia is one of the cities labelled as Islam’s fourth holiest | kairouan |
| ____ national park was Tanzania’s first Unesco world heritage site | SERENGETI |
Sunday, June 9, 2019
The Times - Specialist - June 9 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer
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