The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 233 September 27 2020 Crossword Answers
The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 233 | |
Clues | Answers |
"If […] I am an optimist, my ____ to the creed of optimism is worth hearing" (Helen Keller) | TESTIMONY |
"The Red One", a famous Moorish palace in Granada | ALHAMBRA |
1959 mystery novel by Muriel Spark | memento mori |
1992 No 1 hit for Shakespears Sister | STAY |
A fold pressed or sewn in fabric | PLEAT |
A form of paramnesia | deja vu |
A protein acting as a catalyst in biochemical reactions | ENZYME |
According to polls, nearly half of Serbia's football fans support ____ Belgrade | red star |
Actor who played Sebastian alongside Florence Pugh in the 2016 film Lady Macbeth | Cosmo Jarvis |
Also known as the Amidah, central prayer of the Jewish liturgy | Shemoneh Esreh |
An official language of Pakistan | URDU |
Author of The Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce |
Cerumen | EARWAX |
February 6 in New Zealand | Waitangi Day |
Fermented soya bean paste, the base for a Japanese soup | MISO |
First philosopher mentioned in Monty Python's "Bruces' Song" | Immanuel Kant |
Former game show with nine contestants usually in apparent cuboid compartments | Celebrity Squares |
French term for a duty or educational exercise | DEVOIR |
Grasshopper or cricket, for example | ORTHOPTERAN |
Group which had a 1970 hit with Knock Three Times | DAWN |
Illuminated manuscript version of the four Gospels, housed at Trinity College Library in Dublin | Book of Kells |
In anatomy, the opposite of distal | PROXIMAL |
In Spanish-speaking countries, a motorway | AUTOPISTA |
In the House of Commons, an MP who does not hold office | BACKBENCHER |
Informally, the Beethoven symphony performed in this year's first live Prom on August 28 | EROICA |
James McConville is the US Army's current ____ | Chief of Staff |
Jim Parsons plays ____ Cooper in The Big Bang Theory | SHELDON |
Lakeland fell which became Kanchenjunga in a Swallows and Amazons novel by Arthur Ransome | Old Man of Coniston |
Largest city located on the River Weser in Germany | BREMEN |
Organisation offering training and certification in diving | padi |
Part of an insect's body which bears the wings and legs | THORAX |
Pasta is usually made from this variety of wheat | DURUM |
Piece of writing which excludes one or more letters of the alphabet | LIPOGRAM |
Race devised for the first modern Olympics in 1896 | MARATHON |
Racecourses of ancient Rome and Greece | HIPPODROMES |
Satirist described by Stephen Fry as "The funniest man who ever drew breath" | Peter Cook |
Something which provides guidance (originally a name for the Pole Star) | CYNOSURE |
The "Doc" played by Christopher Lloyd in the Back to the Future films | Emmett Brown |
The "Lion of Punjab", a Sikh empire leader of the early 19th century | Ranjit Singh |
The cause of glandular fever | Epstein-Barr virus |
The study of word origins | ETYMOLOGY |
Three-verse poem by Byron, inspired by Anne Beatrix Wilmot, his cousin's wife | She Walks in Beauty |
To encounter, usually unexpectedly | run into |
To obtain something (typically money) by force or threat | EXTORT |
Torgau, where US and Soviet forces met on April 25, 1945, stands on this river | ELBE |
With Brutus, Sicinius ____ plots the downfall of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's play | velutus |
Wood which was the reason for the creation of British Honduras as a colony | MAHOGANY |
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