The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 414

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“Be not afeard. ____, / Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not” (The Tempest) The isle is full of noises
“Didn’t Mummy ever tell you it was rude to ____, Potter?” (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) EAVESDROP
“If you ____ of quality, you’re alright” (Pete Townshend) steer clear
“Oh ____! Look — what have we got to do to make you believe us?” (Till Death us do Part) Gordon Bennett
“Why then, can one desire ____ of a good thing?” (Rosalind, in As You Like It) too much
(Of the President of the Galaxy) “His job is not to wield power but to ____ away from it” (Douglas Adams) draw attention
1415 battle site in the present-day Pas-de-Calais province AGINCOURT
2018 Little Mix song said to be inspired by observed sushi consumption WASABI
A defensive castle gate PORTCULLIS
A form of personal slander or libel defamation of character
A French name for a clergyman ABBE
Accessory possibly worn with a muu-muu LEI
An online photo’s location indicator GEOTAG
Approach unobtrusively (with “to”) sidle up
Beverley ____, founded in AD700, is possibly the oldest of its kind in England grammar school
California county which is a centre of wine production NAPA
Chile’s ____ is the driest of its type outside polar regions Atacama Desert
Chilean sea route linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans Strait of Magellan
Decorated with edging imitating some shells SCALLOPED
Dropsy of the abdomen ascites
Electronic instrument with a keyboard allowing precise pitch control, whose inventor was inspired by the theremin Ondes Martenot
Harlequin imprint which publishes over 100 novels per month Mills and Boon
In poker etc, the stake placed before drawing cards ANTE
Clues Answers
In the UK, this unusually coloured (male) butterfly is restricted to central southern English woodland purple emperor
Informally, a warship, armoured vehicle or motorcar battle-wagon
Italian opera singer who took part in America’s first public radio broadcast, in 1910 Enrico Caruso
Lake ____ is a major location in Schiller’s play William Tell LUCERNE
Last wife of Aeneas in Roman mythology LAVINIA
Milk cap game piece which lent its name to the Twitch meme ____Champ POG
Nagging criticism, colloquially EARACHE
Old name for an umbrella, from a Dickens character who carried one GAMP
Panthera onca JAGUAR
Portrayer of Scott Evil in the Austin Powers films Seth Green
Potential bargains on the stock market penny shares
Sharing a male ancestor AGNATIC
Singer-songwriter John ____ was also known as John Cougar ____ mellencamp
Something both good and bad, from an 1895 cartoon in Punch curate's egg
Supreme council and court of ancient Jerusalem SANHEDRIN
Switzerland’s third most populous city is in this canton Basel-Stadt
Take position as advocate or barrister be called to the Bar
The king of Spain, 1975-2014 Juan Carlos
The opposite of pessimal OPTIMAL
The ____, 1987 film with scenes in the Forbidden City Last Emperor
Twilled fabric, usually of wool with cotton or linen wincey
Vehicle which, in the US, often displays a stop sign school bus
Weaving, pottery and embroidery are all ____ HANDICRAFTS