The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 249

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Clues Answers
A “missing link” APEMAN
A process of preparing for physical exertion limbering up
A tree knot KNUR
Actor whose roles include Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings Ian Holm
Argentinian footballer awarded the Ballon d’Or a record six times Lionel Messi
As a suffix, having a particular height statured
Astringent compound in red wine TANNIN
Australia’s prime minister for more than 18 years between 1939 and 1966 Robert Menzies
Bette Midler’s 1972 debut album The Divine Miss M
Bones, to an anatomist OSSA
Colloquially, an obsessive fan of a celebrity, from a 2000 song by Eminem STAN
Databases of configuration settings in computer operating systems REGISTRIES
Detective created by Colin Dexter MORSE
Dutch darts player, No 1 in the PDC world rankings for seven years until January 3 Michael van Gerwen
Examples of ____ architecture include the Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza MAYAN
First British chef awarded three Michelin stars, in 1994 Marco Pierre White
From Europe south of the Pyrenees IBERIAN
Hollow where nerves and blood vessels enter and leave an organ such as the kidney HILUM
Illicit liquor (variant spelling) HOOTCH
In Greek mythology, a sea-goddess, the mother of Achilles THETIS
Irish novelist who said that she “rebelled against the coercive and stifling religion into which I was born and bred” Edna O'Brien
Legal wrong often remedied by an action for damages TORT
Of a computer, vulnerable to intrusion hackable
One skilled at telling anecdotes RACONTEUR
Clues Answers
Panegyrics ENCOMIA
Partially dries (cloth) with a twisting motion wrings out
Racing driver “outed” as Top Gear’s The Stig in 2010 Ben Collins
Region variously defined but always including Norfolk and Suffolk east anglia
Riyadh is this country’s capital Saudi Arabia
Segment of an insect’s body which bears the forewings mesothorax
Sitcom which starred Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as rival antique dealers Never the Twain
Stage name of US singer and civil rights activist Eunice Waymon Nina Simone
Temporary cessations of activity MORATORIA
The denial of a doctrine or belief Abnegation
The language spoken by Jesus Christ ARAMAIC
The Lion King characters Timon and Pumbaa are a ____ and warthog MEERKAT
The longest river in the British Isles SHANNON
The optic nerve emerges from this part of the midbrain THALAMUS
The peninsula occupied by Norway and Sweden SCANDINAVIA
The time in June when 15A was believed to be most likely to appear Midsummer Night
The town called Caerfyrddin in Welsh CARMARTHEN
Wartime slogan encouraging home-grown food dig for victory
Washing machines which were popular in the 1960s twin-tubs
Will-o’-the-wisp Ignis fatuus
With a peak speed around 25 mph, the common ____ is the slowest antelope ELAND
World-weariness (adopted from German) WELTSCHMERZ
____ moss is an edible “red” seaweed, common on Irish shores CARRAGEEN
____ played Ilsa Lund opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca Ingrid Bergman