The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 400

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“Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the ____ disturbances” (Maslow) SITUATIONAL
2023 film based on the origin of a Nike shoe brand in the 1980s AIR
400m runner who officially did not finish an Olympic semi-final in 1992 as he was assisted by his father derek Redmond
A follower of Madame Blavatsky THEOSOPHIST
A human infant usually ____ for 18 months or more TEETHES
A raw and spirited style of playing in jazz GUTBUCKET
At ____ in 1991, four answers in this puzzle were the UK’s first 4x400m winners in a global championship since 1936 TOKYO
BBC sitcom with Tom Hollander as a priest in Hackney REV
Bergen to Kirkenes shipping service, serving over 30 ports hurtigruten
Bertie Wooster’s fearsome aunt AGATHA
Co ____ became part of Leinster rather than Ulster in 1596 LOUTH
Comedy actor Roy ____ played Veruca Salt’s father in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory KINNEAR
Female ____s are the great apes with the longest interbirth period — six to nine years ORANGUTAN
First singer of Falling in Love Again Marlene Dietrich
French type of military cap, still used in the Foreign Legion KEPI
In 1648, Pride’s Purge created the ____ Parliament RUMP
In 1862, Henry Isaac ___ founded the company that later created Aero and Smarties ROWNTREE
In addition to his political career, Cardinal ___ is credited with inventing the table knife RICHELIEU
Insect larvae in a destructive swarm army worms
Latin for “anvil”; one of the three ossicles in the ear INCUS
Leader of fenland resistance to Norman rule, c 1070 hereward the wake
Literally “sparkling”, metaphorically “excitingly clever” SCINTILLATING
Maslow’s hierarchy of ____s is a theory in psychology NEED
Metal pan full of hot embers, used in homes c 1650-1900 bed-warmer
Michael ____’s omission from the US team in 44A made the British win much more likely JOHNSON
Musical instrument with a broken string in Holbein’s The Ambassadors LUTE
Clues Answers
Name, meaning “east”, for the USSR’s first manned spaceflight project VOSTOK
Norse god who took the forms of a mare, salmon and fly LOKI
Real head of the family in Giles cartoons GRANDMA
Runner whose 19.87 200m personal best was the British record, 1994-2023 john Regis
Semicircular recess at a church’s east end APSE
Some ____s are the largest mobile man-made structures oil tanker
Someone who ____ can influence a decision has a say
Someone who ____ provides possible explanations THEORISES
Something that potatoes, sausages and rice puddings have SKIN
The first monarch to use ____ as a residence was Henry I windsor castle
The Grand Ballon is the highest of these French mountains VOSGES
The melody of the German Christmas song O ____ was used for The Red Flag tannenbaum
The only player who has been top scorer in English football’s top tier with three different clubs Gary Lineker
The sphere of record keepers with administrative duties clerkdom
These may be produced when someone 48A badly sophistries
Tip of a long process extending from a neuron’s cell body nerve ending
To change course by swinging a sail across a following wind GYBE
To make (something) less dangerous de-risk
Ts and Cs often say that “We reserve the right to […] as we ____” think fit
TV sitcom about employees of Wernham Hogg The Office
Type of camera lens which may produce a circular image fish-eye
What became Radio 4 in 1967 Home Service
What you can stir up to cause a commotion hornet's nest
Winner of 400m hurdles bronze at the 1992 Olympics kriss Akabusi
Winner of 400m silver at the 1996 Olympics roger Black
____ painting is a name for the style of Jackson Pollock SPLATTER