The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 087

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'At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the ____' WIT
'Merciful' — based on a Latin word meaning to soothe LENIENT
'We’ll go to ____, / Where true love conquers' (Manhattan song lyrics) YONKERS
1896 collection of sixty-three poems, most of which have been set to music A Shropshire Lad
1957 British film noir starring Stanley Baker and Herbert Lom Hell Drivers
A bowler may approach from the Radcliffe Road End of this cricket ground Trent Bridge
A Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama
According to New Scientist in July this year, this bone is present in the legs of frogs PATELLA
Actor who starred as police sergeant TJ Hooker William Shatner
Al Hillah in Iraq is built alongside this ancient city BABYLON
An E flat or B flat bass in a brass band TUBA
Archaic name for single-reed woodwind instruments clarionets
Author of the comic novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos
Bad language is said to turn the ____ air blue
Belgian driver who had four World Rally Championship wins in 2017 Thierry Neuville
Bos grunniens is the domesticated form of this wild ox YAK
British actress who presented the first four Eurovision Song Contests hosted in the UK Katie Boyle
Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice MOLOCH
Co-presenter, since 2004, of Strictly Come Dancing Tess Daly
From ____, hatred and malice […], Good Lord deliver us (Litany, 1662 Book of Common Prayer) ENVY
German word for a year of apprenticeship lehrjahr
Guardians of golden apples in Greek mythology HESPERIDES
In classical Greek architecture, a continuous pedestal supporting a series of columns stylobate
Informally, a pound sterling SOV
Insurance company which traded as Norwich Union until 2009 aviva
Jack ____ wrote TV scripts for The Lovers, Bar Mitzvah Boy, and The Knowledge ROSENTHAL
Leaked set of over thirteen million investment documents partly made public on November 5, 2017 The Paradise Papers
Likely to be able to answer clues in this puzzle well-read
Lou Reed’s 1972 double A-side single featured Walk on the Wild Side and ____ Perfect Day
Mad Max: ____ was a 2015 reboot of the film franchise Fury Road
Clues Answers
Main protagonist of The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen
Maori name for a humanoid sculpture TIKI
Mythological ship which sailed from Iolcos to Colchis ARGO
Nickname of Lord of the Rings character Fredegar Bolger FATTY
Nikolai ____ wrote Taras Bulba GOGOL
Northamptonshire village, home to the Force India team SILVERSTONE
Not the sort of person to do clerical work! LAYMAN
Oil reservoir at the bottom of a crankcase SUMP
Olympic 10,000m gold medallist in 1996 and 2000 Haile Gebrselassie
Pertaining to the brain CEREBRAL
Pulp-filled tooth cavities root canals
Russian name for the capital of Moldova kishinev
Series of three films based on the sitcom Police Squad! The Naked Gun
Short stanza which finishes some forms of verse ENVOI
Sir Charles ____ did not invent the bridge named after him WHEATSTONE
Sixteen nails YARD
Snakes, as a sub-order of reptiles OPHIDIA
Some of Guy de ____’s short stories were set during the Franco-Prussian war MAUPASSANT
Someone from Tyneside or, in Australia and New Zealand, a Scotsman GEORDIE
Supporters close to goalies UPRIGHTS
Symbol which is also called “pound sign” in the US HASHTAG
Telephone system requiring no operator subscriber trunk dialling
The chapter before Wool and Water in Through the Looking Glass Tweedledum and Tweedledee
The main public space of this Italian city is the Piazza del Campo SIENA
The poems set to music in William Walton’s Facade were from a collection of the same name by Edith ____ SITWELL
The ____ Boy and The Mad Mother were two of Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads collection IDIOT
This author’s surname is one letter short of an example of his work POE
To surround on all sides ENCLOSE
Traditional Hindu system of medicine AYURVEDA
Western OCCIDENTAL