The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 141 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 141 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Frank Sinatra played the eponymous detective in this 1967 film	Tony Rome
From Yiddish, a female gossip or busybody	YENTA
Greek muse of lyric poetry	ERATO
Having an appearance considered suitable for TV	TELEGENIC
How a female shopper may be addressed	MADAM
How Christmas pudding is often served	FLAMBE
In an elaborately decorated style	ORNATELY
In words attributed to Lord Acton, “All power corrupts … and absolute power is even ____”	NICER
Irish poet who wrote lyrics for The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer	Thomas Moore
Italy’s “Christmas Witch”, with a similar role to Santa Claus	La Befana
Key to the right of the hash symbol on a standard UK keyboard	ENTER
Narrow strips connecting larger land areas	ISTHMI
Prefix indicating multiplication by a billion, or by the 30th power of 2	GIGA
Renewal of licence after expiry or suspension	reaccreditation
Sacrament commemorating the Last Supper	EUCHARIST
Scottish singer who appeared in the Morrisons 2007 Christmas advertising campaign	LULU
Short-necked jars of ancient Greece	STAMNOI
Singer whose only Christmas-themed single was December Will Be Magic Again, in 1979	Kate Bush
Stage name of the Flemish singer Esther Lambrechts	La Esterella
Tenzin Gyatso’s title	Dalai Lama
The branches of this shrub, common around Los Angeles, are used as Christmas decorations	Californian holly
The maple genus	ACER
The ____ features Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding	Mighty Boosh
The ____ was a gift from France to the USA, dedicated in 1886	Statue of Liberty
Wealthy, derived from the Latin for “flow towards”	AFFLUENT
William Makepeace Thackeray’s “novel without a hero”	Vanity Fair
Yorkshire town whose nearby Stockeld Park is noted for its Christmas illuminations	WETHERBY
____ dos Santos Aveiro plays for Juventus and Portugal	Cristiano Ronaldo

Clues	Answers
“I strive to be brief, and I become ____” (Horace)	OBSCURE
“Scintillate” shares an etymological origin with this Christmas decoration	TINSEL
“Tony Blair speaks with a passion as yet ____ by the cynicism of office” (The Scotsman, in 1997)	unmutilated
2009 Pat Holden film about a firm of Tranmere Rovers fans	AWAYDAYS
A Christmas tree decoration	BAUBLE
A tread and a ____ constitute a step	RISER
Actress who played Sally in When Harry Met Sally …	Meg Ryan
Aden Gillett plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the ____’s current production of A Christmas Carol	Royal Shakespeare Company
American department store which published the 1939 booklet in which Rudolph the Reindeer first appeared	Montgomery Ward
American equivalent of a unit trust	mutual fund
An old-fashioned British indication of agreement	righty ho
Annual thoroughbred race held at the Randwick Racecourse in Sydney	Australian Oaks
Any of the Gilbert and Sullivan works originally presented by the D’Oyly Carte company	Savoy opera
Chinese system of meditative physical exercise	tai chi
Christmas celebrations centre around the Jaffa area of this Israeli city	Tel Aviv
City which has donated the Christmas tree Trafalgar Square since 1947	OSLO
Collection of rhymes published in 1744, considered the first volume for children	A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
Colloquially, edible produce from genetically modified sources	Frankenstein food
Colombia’s most capped goalkeeper and the only one with a clean sheet in a Copa America competition (in 2001)	Oscar Cordoba
Creator of Rip Van Winkle and the idea of Santa’s flying sleigh	Washington Irving
Creator of the “gentleman detective” Roderick Alleyn	Ngaio Marsh
Deficient, inadequate	SCANTY
Document listing goods and the amount due for payment	INVOICE
Epithet added to a name, as in Alexander the Great	AVIGNON
Family title most closely associated with Christmas	FATHER
Festival for which Jingle Bells was originally written	THANKSGIVING
Firmly fixed	SECURE
Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile	Santolina