The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 346

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“Abused ____ is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity” (Robinson Crusoe) PROSPERITY
“That dress I married you in was a hand-me-down from a ____ rich cousin I hated” (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof soundtrack) SNOTTY
1946 film which was novelist Raymond Chandler’s first original screenplay The Blue Dahlia
1960s British rock band fronted by Eric Burdon The Animals
A stretch of grassy turf SWARD
Actor whose name is an anagram of I GET ORDERS Rod Steiger
Alternative to “act” for laws passed by parliament without royal assent during the English Civil War ORDINANCE
Amusing as opposed to odd funny ha-ha
An arable farm storage building GRANARY
An experimenter or quack EMPIRIC
An illicit love affair LIAISON
At an elevation of over 1000m, Europe’s highest capital city Andorra La Vella
Body of water on which most of Italy’s west coast lies Tyrrhenian Sea
Character in The Goon Show occasionally referred to as Mad Dan ECCLES
Co-star of Ricky Gervais in the romantic comedy film The Invention of Lying Jennifer Garner
Country whose currency is the quetzal GUATEMALA
Dickens novel about a young girl born and raised in a debtors’ prison little dorrit
Document which is evidence of property ownership title deed
Dua Lipa’s second studio album, released in March 2020 Future Nostalgia
Eulogies ENCOMIA
Familiar name of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor appassionata
Feasts for former college members, especially at Oxford University gaudies
First gymnast to score a perfect 10.0 at the Olympics Nadia Comaneci
Food, in Australian and New Zealand slang TUCKER
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Former world No 1 tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the US Monica Seles
French culinary term for leaf vegetables like lettuce and sorrel, cut into shreds or strips and used as a garnish chiffonnade
Inflammation of the joints of the backbone spondylitis
Italian region whose capital is Bologna Emilia-Romagna
Olympic rowing champion partnered by Heather Stanning and Polly Swann Helen Glover
Pertaining to pimples papular
Prefix relating to water AQUA
Professional whose title is usually preceded by “real” in the US estate agent
Sancho ____, the squire of Don Quixote PANZA
Small dishes for dishes like crème brûlée RAMEKINS
Small river fish of the carp family CHUB
South African winner of the 1984 Nobel peace prize Desmond Tutu
Star Trek character played by Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi
That which transmits nerve cell impulses AXON
The capital of North Korea PYONGYANG
The instrumental Chi Mai by Ennio Morricone translates to the English ____ WHOEVER
The last entirely female force in the British Army, disbanded in 1992 WRAC
The lover of Dido in classical legend AENEAS
The proboscis monkey genus NASALIS
The ____ de Paris is believed to be the world’s oldest hospital, founded in AD561 Hotel-Dieu
Threaded fastening devices designed to be turned by hand wing nuts
To ____ on something is to clarify or help to explain it shed light
Video game franchise featuring adventurer Nathan Drake UNCHARTED
____ won an Oscar for her first film role (Funny Girl) Barbra Streisand