The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 303

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“The moment that the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid ____ to common feeling, common prudence, and to common sense” (Sydney Smith) ADIEU
“____ paralysis” is a lack of decisions due to overthinking ANALYSIS
“____ planting” is layered potting of spring bulbs LASAGNE
1977 Woody Allen rom-com starring Diane Keaton which won four Oscars annie hall
A measurement of fuel efficiency Miles per gallon
A technical alternative to “flat” PLANAR
A ____ lane may be used by heavy lorries on one side of a dual carriageway CRAWLER
Actor who played Leonard Swindley in Coronation Street in the 1960s Arthur Lowe
Beauty salon treatment including exfoliation, masks and massage FACIAL
Comes across accidentally chances on
Condition which could be described as soreness around the stirrup OTITIS
Currency units; common wallaroos EUROS
Elton John often wore oversized ____ in his Captain Fantastic persona SUNGLASSES
Eruca sativa, grown as a salad vegetable in Italy since Roman times ROCKET
Exeter replaced ____ as Devon’s cathedral city in 1050 CREDITON
Falls asleep nods off
GCE examination introduced in 1951 to replace the School Certificate O-level
In German, this liquid container is a Wärmflasche hot-water bottle
In their brief journey, a ____ may use a rogallo wing PARACHUTIST
Inventor of dynamite as a safe form of nitroglycerin, in 1866 Alfred Nobel
Location of Kenneth Kaunda International Airport LUSAKA
Newmarket’s 2000 Guineas is the first classic in the ____ Flat season
One of 20D who appeared in the 2013 series of “Strictly” Dave Myers
Clues Answers
One of 20D who previously worked in film production Si King
Paraffin oil advertised on TV from the 1950s to the 1970s by the slogan “Boom, boom, boom, boom ____” Esso Blue
Play based on The Wind in the Willows Toad of Toad Hall
Powerful wealthy folk PLUTOCRATS
Provisional drivers’ red-letter signs L-plates
Rods once used for multiplication and division, invented by a Scottish mathematician Napiers bones
Sacred texts of Zoroastrianism AVESTA
Singer of the 1967 hit What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
Someone who may give you a black eye in a café BARISTA
Starter invented in 1940 by Ignacio Anaya in Coahuila, Mexico NACHOS
Study or 29A of the grammatical arrangement of words SYNTAX
The Shields Ferry carries ____ across the River Tyne Foot passengers
The summit of this Lakeland peak was donated to the National Trust in memory of local men who died in the First World War Scafell Pike
Track onto which goods trains may be shunted SIDING
TV cooks who travel on four wheels The Hairy Bikers
Uruguayan port noted for meat-packing, or the related food brand now owned by Baxters in the UK Fray Bentos
US actor who starred in Rear Window James Stewart
US actress who rose to fame in Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in in the late 1960s Goldie Hawn
Where to find the sclera, retina and vitreous humour EYEBALL
Winter sport combining cross-country skiing and shooting BIATHLON
____ described the RKO studios as “the biggest electric train [set] a boy ever had” orson welles
____ twins develop from two separate fertilised ova FRATERNAL
____-Watt is a Scottish university focusing on science and engineering Heriot