The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 393

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Clues Answers
“'The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as ____” (Robert Morley) The natives are waiters
“I believe”, archaically or jocularly METHINKS
“Small showers last long, but sudden ____ are short” (Shakespeare in Richard II) STORMS
“The Card Sharp with the ____” is a Georges la Tour painting in the Louvre ace of diamonds
1970s board game whose box featured amateur models Bill Woodward and Cecilia Fung MASTERMIND
1976 live double album by Mike Harding One Man Show
2015 film starring Robert De Niro, with a title matching its film genre HEIST
A Christian, eg in Ukraine, following Orthodox rites but accepting the authority of the Pope UNIATE
A dome-like structure or the inside of a dome CUPOLA
A frequently metaphorical speaker’s platform SOAPBOX
A person in a “body suit” has many ____ TATTOOS
Actor who played villain Hans Gruber in Die Hard Alan Rickman
Actress nominated for Bafta and Golden Globe best actress awards for her role as Tippi Hedren in the 2012 TV film The Girl Sienna Miller
An aesthete’s area of interest the arts
Author of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe Alexander McCall Smith
BBC1 children’s observation game show, 1970-84 Screen Test
Childhood home of Elizabeth I, in Hertfordshire Hatfield House
City in which Marks & Spencer started as a market stall LEEDS
Coastal Californian city, starting point of the Race Across America bicycle race OCEANSIDE
Cockburn Town is the capital of this British Overseas Territory Turks and Caicos Islands
Eye inflammations known medically as hordeola STYES
Finished THROUGH
First of the two canticles in a choral evensong service MAGNIFICAT
French-based name for a private viewing of paintings before public exhibition VERNISSAGE
Clues Answers
Honolulu, the capital city of Hawaii, is on this island OAHU
Humorously veiled phrase requesting silence about something tace is Latin for a candle
Ice skating move named after ____ Paulsen AXEL
Informally, “there is nothing more to be said” end of
Insulated container invented by Sir James Dewar in 1892 thermos flask
Launched at high speed Catapulted
Located in Chile, the world’s southernmost city with a population over 100,000 punta arenas
Long-tailed monkey which resembles a squirrel MARMOSET
Mr ____ is Captain Hook’s boatswain in Peter Pan SMEE
Norway’s second female prime minister, in office 2013-2021 Erna Solberg
Originally American old term for a percussionist in a jazz or dance band trap drummer
Preservative substance made from wood tar or coal tar CREOSOTE
Red Dwarf character played by Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge HOLLY
Shelved stand for the display of small ornaments ETAGERE
Star Wars character voiced by Frank Oz YODA
The atomic number of nitrogen SEVEN
The capital of Laos VIENTIANE
The real surname of Mark Twain CLEMENS
The UK’s 1980s answer to Apple as a significant computer brand APRICOT
Tissue swellings caused by serous fluid (US spelling) EDEMAS
Venus as the evening star HESPERUS
You Took The ____ Home is the first book of poems by Brian Bilston last bus
____ starred in a 1972 film whose title was the catchphrase of his creation Mandy Dick Emery
____ won eight grand slam titles but not Wimbledon Ivan Lendl