The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 340

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Clues Answers
“Leaning over me, he was trying to explain ___” (Abba, When I Kissed the Teacher) the laws of geometry
1765 tax legislation affecting British colonies in America Stamp Act
2002 sci-fi horror film directed by M Night Shyamalan SIGNS
A large variety of cooking apple, named after a royal Lane's Prince Albert
A rain cloud NIMBUS
A single-pointed tooth unicuspid
Actor who played Chief Martin Brody in Jaws and Jaws 2 Roy Scheider
Art historian Roy ____ became the youngest director of London’s V&A museum in 1973 STRONG
Banks of marine fog which move inland sea frets
BBC sitcom set in Balby, South Yorkshire Open All Hours
Capital of Brazil’s state of Rondonia, on the River Madeira, also a possible name for a (different) vintage wine Porto Velho
Colloquially, that which has a local-part, @, and a domain ADDY
Constriction of a bodily passage STENOSIS
Dancing star in the 1976 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show Angela Rippon
Early in the 1988 Olympic 5000m final, Kenyan John ____ broke away with a 2:01 800m spell and was never overtaken ngugi
First Test cricketer to reach 200 wickets and 2000 runs Richie Benaud
First woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, in 1930 Amy Johnson
Flogs or thrashes LARRUPS
Formal leave of absence EXEAT
Former name for the city which became Bratislava in 1919 pressburg
In a bridge hand, a holding of two cards in the same suit DOUBLETON
Latin name for both the Virgin Mary and the star Polaris as a guide for sailors Stella Maris
Lyricist for the 1958 musical film Gigi Alan Jay Lerner
Main antagonist in the film Blade Runner Roy Batty
Max ____, AI character played by Matt Frewer HEADROOM
Clues Answers
MP who described David Cameron and George Osborne as “two arrogant posh boys” Nadine Dorries
Old name for the three days before Lent SHROVETIDE
Patriarch with 969-year life span, the longest in the Bible METHUSELAH
Privately-owned body administering UK School exams EDEXCEL
Product exploiting a related work in another medium tie-in
Rosalind is the protagonist of this Shakespeare play as you like it
Section of society most influenced by commercials ADMASS
Shrub of the tea family with rose-like flowers CAMELLIA
Spanish for “aunt”, seen in a liqueur name TIA
Sudden deep fall in security prices, especially as a result of automated trading flash crash
That which attracts pollinators NECTAR
The Big Bang Theory character played by Jim Parsons Sheldon Cooper
The Chester ____ Plays are a medieval drama series revived in 1951, and will next be performed in June and July 2023 MYSTERY
The Federated States of ____ has 271 square miles of land and just over a million square miles of the Pacific Ocean MICRONESIA
The first solar system planet identified as such by use of a telescope URANUS
The Lord of the Rings character first introduced as Strider ARAGORN
The river that ran “through caverns measureless to man” in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan ALPH
The River ___ formed the boundary between Essex and Middlesex LEA
Turkish city once called Smyrna IZMIR
Unfinished novel by F Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1941 The Last Tycoon
Vengeful sorceress of Greek myth, a granddaughter of Helios MEDEA
Welsh actress who played Gossamer Beynon in the 1971 film version of Under Milk Wood Angharad Rees
Winner of the Cartier Horse of the Year award in 2017 and 2019 ENABLE
____ became the first female President of Argentina in 1974 Isabel Peron
____ played the second Bond girl who Bond married Diana Rigg