The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 355

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Clues Answers
“In spite of”, especially in the phrase “____ that” for all
“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all ____” (Salman Rushdie) EMIGRATED
“The Hatters” is the nickname of ____ Town FC LUTON
“____ moss” is an informal name for sphagnum BOG
1973 King Crimson album title based on decadent food in ancient Rome Larks' Tongues in Aspic
1990 film about a Dutch painter and his brother Vincent and Theo
A large kind of moth or penguin EMPEROR
A set of instruments at the back of some bands drum kit
Alf and Else ____ were characters in a Johnny Speight sitcom GARNETT
At the 1968 Olympic Games, ____ broke the men’s long jump world record by 55cm with a leap of 8.90m Bob Beamon
BBC drama series, shown 2000-05, in which restaurateur Archie MacDonald returns to his roots Monarch of the Glen
Borough in southern Essex, just outside London THURROCK
Character who rises at ten-thirty in a parody version of a music-hall song Burlington Bertie
Comic actor who, playing Julius Caesar, said “Infamy, infamy. They’ve all got it in for me!” Kenneth Williams
Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes ____ is a cycle of plays ELECTRA
Flora ____ wrote Lark Rise to Candleford THOMPSON
French name for a cake-like confection with halves made from egg white, sugar and almonds, and a creamy filling MACARON
Greek letter which is a symbol for torque in physics TAU
Herbal infusion made from daisy-like plants chamomile tea
Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore is fond of ____ lemons SHERBET
In his own words, Aaron Copland’s second “cowboy ballet” RODEO
Italian master of sprint finishes who won 10,000m gold at the 1983 World Championships and 1984 Olympics Alberto Cova
Jerry ____ starred in a US sitcom about a fictional version of himself, 1989-1998 SEINFELD
Kenneth ____ became the first president of Zambia in 1964 kaunda
Kings using this former hunting area often stayed at Waltham Abbey in Essex epping forest
Clues Answers
Latin phrase meaning “from the very beginning” ab ovo
Les Misérables song which Susan Boyle sang in her first appearance on Britain’s Got Talent I Dreamed a Dream
Name for an agency suppressing intellectual freedom thought police
Nasa’s first space station, occupied in 1973 and 1974 SKYLAB
Normandy city which was a target for capture on D-Day CAEN
Northernmost inhabited island in the British Isles Unst
One formal equivalent of informal “form” a police record
Pastry dessert, often with an apple filling STRUDEL
Polymers of this organic compound are the main ingredient of natural rubber ISOPRENE
Possible reasons for redaction in published versions of documents official secrets
Psychological malaise supposedly affecting the rich AFFLUENZA
Religious sites in this city are the only Unesco world heritage site in Italy’s Umbria region ASSISI
Small folded sheet used for writing a short letter NOTELET
Soft orange-red crystalline mineral, an ore of arsenic REALGAR
Something done or made for a single occasion one-off
Supercontinent which existed between about 335 and 200 million years ago PANGAEA
Surname of Spain’s only Formula One world champion ALONSO
The nest of a squirrel DREY
This dog was seen on TV in Blue Peter and Go With Noakes SHEP
Ultimate expert in computing or similar technology alpha geek
Unsurprising name for a Beach Boys album released in 1971 Surf's up
Vertically hanging net used to encircle fish SEINE
Weaver turned into a spider by Athena in Greek myth ARACHNE
Writing instrument used by young children in Victorian schools slate pencil