The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 309

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“And my large kingdom for a little grave / A little little grave, an ____ grave” (Richard II) OBSCURE
1997 film starring Richard Gere as a US businessman wrongfully tried for murder in China Red Corner
A highly recommended written work must-read
American Beauty (1999) was ____’s directorial film debut Sam Mendes
An imaginary place of idle luxury COCKAIGNE
Archaically, someone with unbalanced religious zeal ENTHUSIAST
Boxer who, at 21, became the youngest world heavyweight champion before Mike Tyson Floyd Patterson
Colloquially, someone involved with a particular thing or activity WALLAH
Comedian whose tours include Craic Dealer, Crowd Tickler, and Voice of Reason Dara O Briain
Cut into cubes DICED
Floor ____s are nails around two inches long, with a flat tapering shape BRAD
Former rock band fronted by bassist Geddy Lee RUSH
Ill-fated (often applied to lovers) star-crossed
In medieval music, the full range of recognised notes GAMUT
In sudoku, a three by three block NONET
Informally, daybreak sparrow fart
Köttbullar, which you might eat while considering Billy or Poäng purchases Swedish meatballs
Large and mainly white, this breed was given royal status by Louis XIV Pyrenean mountain dog
Last of the A Series of Unfortunate Events novels by Lemony Snicket the end
London’s neon equivalent of New York’s Times Square Piccadilly Circus
Longest serving host of Call My Bluff on BBC2 Robert Robinson
Made somewhat sour ACIDULATED
Make a grinding or crunching noise, often in a damaging process GRAUNCH
Member of the dinosaur clade which included diplodocus SAUROPOD
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Mother-of-pearl NACRE
Nonsense, originally a meaningless musical refrain FOLDEROL
Oilseed crop, domesticated for more than 3,000 years SESAME
Possible contamination with ____ monocytogenes is the reason for pregnant women to avoid some soft cheeses LISTERIA
Redevelopment of Birmingham’s ____ district began with demolition of the Masshouse Circus road junction EASTSIDE
River Wye ruin, the subject of a Wordsworth poem Tintern Abbey
Saudi Arabia’s main port, on the Red Sea coast jeddah
South Africa’s administrative capital PRETORIA
Strengthen or support (something); suffer (something) SUSTAIN
The 13 string quartets by the British composer Elizabeth ____ (1907-1994) are seen as some of her best compositions maconchy
The birthplace of Princess Margaret Glamis Castle
The capital of Somalia MOGADISHU
The first of the 14 characters killed in Titus Andronicus alarbus
The former Cow Gum was this kind of glue rubber cement
The instrument imitated in the “ranz des vaches” section of Rossini’s William Tell overture ALPENHORN
The last James Bond film directed by Terence Young THUNDERBALL
The opening sentence of Hard Times by Charles Dickens, spoken by Thomas Gradgrind Now what I want is Facts
The role of Sammy Nestico for Count Basie’s band, and Nelson Riddle for Frank Sinatra ARRANGER
The Romance language used by medieval troubadours PROVENCAL
Type of mirror which is tall and tiltable CHEVAL
US equivalent of our BSI or Germany’s DIN ANSI
____ played the old school English butler working for a brash American author in the ITV sitcom Two’s Company Donald Sinden
____ shoes have no laces or other fastenings step-in
____ was a UK equivalent of the US “Kilroy” in 1940s graffiti CHAD