The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 181 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 181 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Guitar-like 3D instrument of the 15th and 16th centuries	VIHUELA
If not fresh enough for a taco, a tortilla may become a ____	TOSTADA
In a harmful, or (especially of smells) offensive way	NOISOMELY
In the 3D spelling, the man who saw the Pacific from a peak in Darien, according to Keats	Hernan Cortes
Informally, a state of bliss	hog heaven
Made inaudible by a louder sound	drowned out
Mountain range including Mulhacen, continental Europe’s highest peak outside the Alps and Caucasus	Sierra Nevada
Originally 3D dish of seafood or meat marinated and cooked in an acidic mixture	ESCABECHE
Program which starts a computer’s operating system	bootloader
Renaissance instrument with woodwind-style fingerholes, blown like a brass instrument	cornett
Saint ____ of Loyola was a cofounder of the Society of Jesus	IGNATIUS
Scrabble sets for this language have a double L tile	SPANISH
Singer and comedian Anna ____’s 22-minute synopsis of Wagner’s Ring ends with “You’re exactly where you started, 20 hours ago!”	RUSSELL
Softening introduction to a possibly upsetting statement	in all honesty
Tea-time delicacy of southern England	lardy cake
The 3D name for a famous pedestrian street in Barcelona	Las Ramblas
The fruit of the sweet or 3D ____ is used to make marrons glacés	CHESTNUT
The kingdom ruled by Croesus	LYDIA
The ____ is a coming of age TV drama at a summer camp	A List
To make a mistake, originally in knitting	drop a stitch
Type of seatbelt developed in the 1960s	inertia reel
World Radiography Day is held on November 8, the anniversary of Wilhelm ____’s famous discovery	ROENTGEN
____ lint is a fabric for treating wounds, and cockney rhyming slang meaning “broke”	BORACIC
____’s 2010 US Open win completed a career grand slam	Rafael Nadal

Clues	Answers
“Courts and camps are the only places to ____ the world in” (Lord Chesterfield)	LEARN
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows ____ about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him ____” (Vaclav Havel)	less and less
“____ humanity” is a cliché about a late admired person	a loss to
1990 tragicomic film about a north London working class family, directed by Mike Leigh	Life Is Sweet
19th-century illustrator Aubrey ____ worked almost entirely in black and white	BEARDSLEY
3D breeders developed the ____ sheep	MERINO
3D musical style, influenced by Romani culture	FLAMENCO
3D province with the same name as its “royal” capital city	Ciudad Real
6A and many other 3D explorers came from this region	extremadura
A cheese first made in, and named after, a town in East Prussia	TILSIT
A common size of carafe	half-litre
A crowd ____ something as a collective demand	bays for
A minor illness	AILMENT
According to the players they were written for, the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Barber were ____	UNPLAYABLE
African ethnic group living mainly in Nigeria	YORUBA
Agony aunt Anna ____ worked for LBC and Cosmopolitan	RAEBURN
An old name for nitric acid	aqua fortis
An old-fashioned form of charm jewellery	AMULET
Benidorm is a major centre of this tourist area	Costa Blanca
British pop group whose biggest hit was Hands to Heaven, in 1988	BREATHE
Cowboy headgear	ten-gallon hat
Derogatory nickname for the 43rd president of the United States	DUBYA
English name for the feast of the Annunciation	Lady Day
Ferdinand and Isabella established the 3D ____ in 1478	INQUISITION