The Times - Specialist - Sunday September 3 2017

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 073 September 3 2017  

Clues	Answers
… and those using it today hope that it will ___ time	take off on
“Parla ____?” — a phrase to learn for an Italian holiday	INGLESE
“Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint” (____ on JS Bach)	Sir Thomas Beecham
1933 film in which a woman tricks a wealthy bachelor into marriage, and then into staying in the marriage	Double Harness
A form of competition that should suit solvers of general knowledge crosswords	Quizzing
A genteel afternoon social event, usually with live music	tea dance
A gentle reminder or warning	NUDGE
A language spoken in Jakarta	JAVANESE
A unit of language, the meaning of which cannot be understood from a subset of its components	LEXEME
Alloy of nickel and iron, with a very low coefficient of thermal expansion	INVAR
An 1877 invention of Thomas Edison, as it was called then	PHONOGRAPH
Another name for alfalfa	LUCERNE
Ask for the same thing again	REORDER
Character with three suitors in The Merry Wives of Windsor	Anne Page
Defence secretary John ____ offered his resignation when the Falkland Islands were invaded	nott
Doubtful, especially in quality or legality	IFFY
Extremely beautiful or kind	ANGELIC
Fashionably old-fashioned	RETRO
George Cayley discovered many of the principles by which this form of transport works …	AEROPLANE
German Benedictine abbess, whose musical compositions only became well-known 800 years after her death	Hildegard of Bingen
Gordon ____ of South London Harriers lost famous battles with Vladimir Kuts in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the 1956 Olympics	pirie
Govern very strictly	rule with an iron fist
Graham ____ was the Galloping Gourmet on 1970 TV screens	KERR
I may do a shuffle ball change or a shim sham shimmy	tap-dancer
In the Radio Times Guide to Films, this title is shared by films made in 1989 (horror), 1990 (drama), and 2003 (romantic comedy)	After Midnight
India’s capital city	new delhi
Informally, a chamber pot, or last-minute lowering of an agreed price	GAZUNDER
Japanese term for people with obsessive interests	OTAKU
Lively form of dance music, which ends each of Bach’s cello suites	GIGUE
Membranes with slimy secretions	mucosae

 

Clues	Answers
Mexican dish with a name identifying the sauce added to it	ENCHILADA
Mourning Becomes ____ is a cycle of plays by Eugene O’Neill	ELECTRA
Mulatu Teshome became the president of this country in 2013	ETHIOPIA
Name for a vineyard, seen on some port wine labels	QUINTA
Of a ball, struck high into the air	SKIED
On a graph, the full set of solutions to x squared plus y squared equals a constant value	CIRCLE
Outside a living organism	in vitro
Professional name of Irish singer Eithne Ni Bhraonain	ENYA
Ralph Fiennes 30A this 1996 film, as a Hungarian cartographer	The English Patient
Renée and ____’s Save Your Love was the UK’s Christmas No 1 in 1982	RENATO
See 15A	starred in
Someone confirming a document or signature’s validity	WITNESS
Someone talking a lot about a little	BLATHERER
Something sold to pay for something new	trade-in
State again	REITERATE
Struck with a heavy sound	THUDDED
Teachers, usually of individual students rather than classes	TUTORS
The capital of 42D	Addis Ababa
The highest point in something’s development	APOGEE
The king of Uruk, hero of an ancient epic poem	GILGAMESH
The north face of this Alpine peak was first climbed in 1938	EIGER
The only mortal mentioned by name in the Nicene Creed	Pontius Pilate
Thin fabric of silk or silk and cotton, usually with a printed pattern, or something made from it	FOULARD
Title unofficially awarded to Dame Judi Dench and Sir David Attenborough	national treasure
To assign no tax to something that could be taxed	zero-rate
To catch a train to Bordeaux, go to the Gare ____	MONTPARNASSE
To trap, or gain power over someone dishonestly	ENSNARE
Very boring	as dull as ditchwater
What a jury is expected to do	reach a verdict
____ played Lewis in the Morse and Lewis detective series	Kevin Whately