The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 171

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A bar chart HISTOGRAM
A dark shade of blue NAVY
A fan of the sci-fi series created by Gene Roddenberry TREKKIE
A ruminant’s third stomach OMASUM
A sign of great happiness ear-to-ear grin
A type of grass; a stick or straw used as a teacher’s pointer FESCUE
American sitcom starring Ed O’Neill and Katey Sagal Married with Children
An electronic birthday or Christmas message e-card
Armstrong’s words when the lunar module detached from 31D the eagle has wings
Austrian composer who was an exponent of the 12-tone technique Anton Webern
Band who were at No 3 in the UK singles chart at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing Rolling Stones
Buzz Aldrin’s description of the moon’s landscape Magnificent desolation
Capsule communicator who sat next to Jim Lovell at Mission Control during Apollo 11’s descent, and was later in the Apollo 13 crew Fred Haise
Celtic festival marking the beginning of winter SAMHAIN
Chris ____’s first UK Top Ten hit was The Road to Hell (Part 2) REA
Common name for a low-growing shrub, the only species in the Calluna genus HEATHER
Community of a social networking site founded in 2006 twittersphere
Condiment used to cool the palate in Indian cuisine RAITA
Corner on the Top Gear test track named after an actor GAMBON
Crufts venue since 1991 NEC
Daniel Hannan, Anthea Mcintyre, Nosheena Mobarik, and Geoffrey Van Orden are current Conservative ____ Euro-MPs
Deviations from intended courses driftages
Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet EPSILON
First name of the first man to set foot on the moon NEIL
Footballer who recently left West Ham United and previously played for Manchester City Samir Nasri
Clues Answers
German car manufacturer owned by General Motors until 2017 OPEL
Golf clubs used for high trajectory shots lofters
Hannibal ____ is, chronologically, the first in the series which includes The Silence of the Lambs RISING
Having knot-like swellings NODOSE
Island whose capital is the smallest in the European Union MALTA
John F Kennedy announced the mission to land men on the moon while addressing the US Congress about ____ Urgent National Needs
Member of an organisation, especially one party to secret information about it INSIDER
One of Titania’s fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream MOTH
One ____ of 28A is “distant life in moon cage” ANAGRAM
Owner of land under an originally Norse legal system, still used in Orkney and Shetland UDALLER
Refusing to obey authority INSUBORDINATE
Russian project which led to the creation of Nasa SPUTNIK
The Apollo 11 command module COLUMBIA
The first playwright to dramatise Sweeney Todd George Dibdin Pitt
The opening of a flower bud ANTHESIS
The personification of sleep in Greek mythology HYPNOS
The USS ____ recovered 31D on July 24, 1969 HORNET
Tommy ____, a generic name for a British Army private ATKINS
US coffee brand named after a former hotel in Nashville Maxwell House
Vice-president who watched the Apollo 11 launch alongside Lyndon B Johnson Spiro Agnew
Wagner’s second father-in-law LISZT
Welsh name for the sea inlet between Bardsey Island and Strumble Head Bae Ceredigion
Word replacing the last at 30A, spoken by Armstrong on touchdown LANDED
____ the Great, a play by Christopher Marlowe TAMBURLAINE
____’s last theorem was finally proved by Andrew Wiles FERMAT