The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 074

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“The mere ____ pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great …” (Dr David Livingstone) ANIMAL
“____, and quit my sight!” (Macbeth, to Banquo’s ghost) AVAUNT
A female kangaroo DOE
A length of four inches HAND
A noted ornithologist gave his name to this fictional secret agent james bond
A secret organisation, or any group thought to resemble it MAFIA
Actress who played Laura Jesson in Brief Encounter Celia Johnson
Actress whose most notable character was Yvette Carte-Blanche in ’Allo ’Allo Vicki Michelle
Another name for a dowser DIVINER
Another name for the weaver’s knot or hitch sheet bend
Band whose song Live It Up featured in the film Crocodile Dundee Mental as Anything
Bomber pilot and close friend of Yossarian in Catch-22 ORR
Breed of dog whose name is based on a word meaning “land” TERRIER
Canadian province between Manitoba and Quebec ONTARIO
Current venue of the US Open tennis tournament Flushing Meadows
Disc formerly used instead of a coin in French payphones Jeton
F1 team for whom Esteban Ocon and Pascal Wehrlein raced in 2016 MANOR
First words in verse 51 of Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam The moving finger writes
Folded veil used as a nun’s headdress WIMPLE
Form of transport which must be booked in advance MINICAB
Fragile porcelain from a town in Fermanagh belleek
Gathered mass of carded wool ready for spinning rolag
Greta Garbo starred as a Russian emissary in this 1939 film NINOTCHKA
H Rider Haggard’s fictional game hunter Allan Quatermain
Harry ____ played Mr Bumble in the film version of Oliver! SECOMBE
Hornby model railway brand, introduced in 1938 dublo
Influential 20th-century US architect Robert Venturi
Influential musician and producer, originally a member of Roxy Music Brian Eno
Jordan’s only coastal city, near Eilat in Israel AQABA
Location of public executions in London, 1783-1868 NEWGATE
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Material on which another material is deposited SUBSTRATE
Midfielder who joined Arsenal from Southampton in 2011 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Mob Quad is in this part of Oxford University Merton College
Most of this national park is in Wyoming YELLOWSTONE
Musician, played by Suzi Quatro, in some episodes of Happy Days Leather Tuscadero
Narrator and purported author of epic poems by James Macpherson OSSIAN
Notable feature of Jupiter Great Red Spot
Prince ____ Road is a street in London’s “Albertopolis” area CONSORT
Proprietary name for a type of rechargeable battery NICAD
Scattered or scanty SPARSE
Sir ____ Fuchs led a land crossing of Antarctica in 1957-8 VIVIAN
Stage name of the singer born Robyn Fenty RIHANNA
Strong wind which blows on the South African coast Cape doctor
Sweet, nut-based filling in chocolate PRALINE
Taxonomy grouping equivalent to a division in botany PHYLUM
The City of London’s main shopping street since medieval times CHEAPSIDE
The deep inner layer of the skin DERMA
The first stage of the 2014 Tour de France ended in this spa town HARROGATE
The influential philosophy text Critique of Pure Reason was written by Immanuel ____ KANT
The most popular variety of this vegetable is calabrese BROCCOLI
The UK’s best-selling single of 1974 Tiger Feet
The ____ Mob drove the Bulletproof Bomb in Wacky Races Ant Hill
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior was written by John von ____ and Oskar Morgenstern NEUMANN
Tour de France winner in 2015, 2016 and 2017 Chris Froome
Trollope’s fictional English county, in the title of the final novel in a six-volume series BARSET
Vertical feature of staircases newel post
Vessel displaying the consecrated host in Catholic Masses MONSTRANCE
Vladimir ____ wrote Lolita NABOKOV
Wild asses, or historical stone-throwing devices ONAGERS
Winner of the 2009 Grand National on Mon Mome, at 100-1 Liam Treadwell