The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 225 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 225 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
London’s ____ docks opened in 1806 and closed in 1967	East India
Manager of Sampdoria, and formerly Leicester City	Claudio Ranieri
Medical term for an abnormally strong appetite, derived from the ancient Greek for “hunger”	limosis
Multi-volume hagiography, started in the 17th century	Acta Sanctorum
Musician and poet who collaborated with Pete Doherty of the Libertines and Babyshambles	Peter Wolfe
Old name for the Mon-Khmer language of Vietnam	annamese
Pertaining to kissing	OSCULAR
Plain white fur used in clothing	MINIVER
Popular eating and cooking apple of Australian origin	Granny Smith
Portia’s maid in The Merchant of Venice	NERISSA
Region of western Asia Minor once settled by the Greeks	IONIA
Star Trek character played by George Takei	Hikaru Sulu
The first female Ukrainian to break into the top 10 tennis rankings, reaching No 3 in 2017 and 2019	Elina Svitolina
The Greek god of war	ARES
The opposite of a vacuum	PLENUM
The second-highest civil award for bravery in both Canada and Australia	Star of Courage
The University of Oxford’s motto	Dominus illuminatio mea
UK prime minister whose first term in office came between Disraeli’s two	William Ewart Gladstone
Until 1920, an Italian car manufacturer’s acronymic name	ALFA
US feminist who co-founded the Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan	Gloria Steinem
Usually, the longer of the two main bones of the forearm	ULNA
Well-known ____ artists include Henri Rousseau and Beryl Cook	NAIVE
Zoological term meaning “tailless”	anurous
____ declared his presidential candidacy on April 25, 2019	Joe Biden
____ plays for Everton and the Nigerian national team	Alex Iwobi

Clues	Answers
“Grow great by your example and put on / The dauntless spirit of ____” (Shakespeare, King John)	RESOLUTION
“Till the injurious Romans did ____ / This tribute from us, we were free” (Shakespeare, Cymbeline)	EXTORT
“Whereas an ambiguous statement may be vague by accident or intent, an equivocal one is calculatedly ____” (Bill Bryson, Troublesome Words)	UNCLEAR
“____ and wisdom are not opposing values” (Bill Clinton)	STRENGTH
1996 football single featuring Baddiel and Skinner	Three Lions
A Bakewell tart has this almond-based filling	FRANGIPANE
A deer’s horn	ANTLER
A North American born of Japanese immigrant parents	NISEI
A rhyming game	CRAMBO
A shivering fit	AGUE
A ____ question is one which does not invite an answer	RHETORICAL
Also known as the “Cradle of Liberty”, a popular tourist site in Boston, Massachusetts	Faneuil Hall
An ecclesiastical council, or an obsolete word for a conjunction of planets	SYNOD
Another name for hydrogen cyanide	prussic acid
Archaically or in dialect, an ant	EMMET
Art gallery owned by Jay Jopling, with two branches in London and one on Hong Kong Island	White Cube
Capital of Thessaly and, in myth, the birthplace of Achilles	LARISSA
Designating the most negative outcome of something	worst-case
Disneyland is in this Californian city	ANAHEIM
Early devices used to help those with poor hearing	ear trumpets
Early type of motorcycle with a passenger seat in front	forecar
Framework allowing a vehicle to carry extra luggage	roof rack
Henrik ____ wrote Hedda Gabler	IBSEN
In Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, the one mentioned after Venezuelan beaver cheese	CHEDDAR
Like his brother Denis, ____ played football for Arsenal and cricket for Middlesex	Leslie Compton