The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 139

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
“Finding bad ____ for what one believes for other bad ____ — that’s philosophy” (Aldous Huxley) REASONS
“Our people grumbled for more ____ and washing machines” (Russian ambassador, in Doctor Strangelove) NYLONS
“The ____ from the palace has the brew that is true” (Danny Kaye, in The Court Jester) CHALICE
1980s pop movement which included Duran Duran New Romantic
A number used to indicate the position of a point co-ordinate
A theatre’s ____ bar serves interval drinks CRUSH
Alliterative Scots name for a hanging clock with exposed pendulum and weights wag-at-the-wa
An adjectival meaning of “desert” UNINHABITED
Athlete who won the javelin and 80m hurdles at the 1932 Olympics, and under her married name, three US Women’s Opens in golf Babe Didrikson
Baroness ____ wrote the Scarlet Pimpernel novels ORCZY
Based in Switzerland, the world’s largest food company NESTLE
Beast captured by Hercules in the fourth of his labours Erymanthian boar
Beetle that was sacred in ancient Egypt SCARAB
Bette Davis starred in this 1948 film about journalists covering a wedding June Bride
CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain five times timothy Taylor's Landlord
Card game in which you may have to lie CHEAT
Coastal drowned river valley, such as Milford Haven RIA
Contested at the 1912 Olympics, a variant of some throwing events, possibly favouring ambidextrous athletes Both hands
Deborah ____ has been a Dragons’ Den investor since 2006 meaden
Descriptive name for realgar, an ore of a toxic element red arsenic
European nation whose flag has blue, black and white stripes ESTONIA
Faye Dunaway’s co-star and producer in Bonnie and Clyde Warren Beatty
Ferrero product which apparently uses a quarter of the world supply of hazelnuts NUTELLA
Foodstuff used in pina coladas and some curry recipes coconut cream
Gary ____ played Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour OLDMAN
George and Ira Gershwin’s I Got ____ was written for the musical Girl Crazy RHYTHM
Glam rock band whose Lonely This Christmas was the UK’s Christmas No 1 in 1974 MUD
Human beings have five ____ organs, two in pairs SENSORY
Clues Answers
International agreement negotiated in the 1960s, intended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty
Lack of bonhomie ALOOFNESS
Many ____ are produced with Penicillium roqueforti blue cheeses
Ornamental loop, originally intended to prevent loss of a weapon in battle sword knot
PDQ ____ is a composer invented by musical satirist Peter Schickele BACH
Sculptor of the bronze David in Florence’s Bargello DONATELLO
Sea stack in the Orkney Islands, first climbed in 1966 Old Man of Hoy
Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in ____ A Study in Scarlet
Sicilian dish usually including aubergines, celery, onions, capers, raisins and vinegar caponata
Suite for piano, considered Isaac Albeniz’s masterpiece IBERIA
Surface-ripened cheese, named after an East Prussia town (now called Sovetsk) TILSIT
Sword with a sharply pointed blade, used to pierce armour ESTOC
The capital of Niger NIAMEY
The gravitational equilibrium by which the earth’s crust “floats” over its mantle ISOSTASY
The most common ester in wine, also used to decaffeinate coffee beans ethyl acetate
The part of the throat above the larynx and oesophagus PHARYNX
The title of this Somerset Maugham novel is a quotation from Twelfth Night Cakes and Ale
This is an unanswerable question for you to think about KOAN
This is often recommended as a good way to pack a formal jacket in a suitcase inside out
To convert from liquid to vapour and back again DISTIL
To pass, survive or win, but only just squeak through
To place things close together or side by side JUXTAPOSE
Village at the southern end of the Pennine Way EDALE
Wading bird named after its feeding technique TURNSTONE
What Hansel and Gretel left behind (unsuccessfully) to help them find their way home from the forest BREADCRUMBS
Words attributed to Caesar, crossing the Rubicon the die is cast
____ and the Trossachs National Park was established in 2002 Loch Lomond
____ law was a legal code, often equated with the exclusion of women from inheritance SALIC