The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 078

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“At the present moment, the whole ____’s lit up. When I say ‘lit up’ I mean lit up by fairy lamps” (Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Woodrooffe, in a notorious radio broadcast) FLEET
“With maximum effort”, referring to old technology full steam ahead
'And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers …' (The Tempest) FABRIC
100 cents in South Africa RAND
1978 John Irving novel, later a film starring Robin Williams The World According To Garp
2007 war drama starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, adapted from an Ian McEwan novel ATONEMENT
A decorative frill around the neck, also a variety of sandpiper RUFF
A former insurance clerk who won 1984 Olympic skating gold with a former policeman Jayne Torvill
A Roman greeting or a soothing ointment SALVE
Actress who gained fame as a medium in Blithe Spirit Margaret Rutherford
Actress who played Nefer in The Egyptian Bella Darvi
An abbreviated word form such as photo or telly APOCOPE
Anglicised name for Mongolia’s capital Ulan Bator
Another name for an artist or illustrator iconographer
Area of central Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea TURKESTAN
BBC comedy show famous for its “going out for an English” sketch Goodness Gracious Me
Capital of Australia's Victoria state MELBOURNE
Clergyman ranked below priest DEACON
Company for whose frozen peas advert Patsy Kensit made a popping sound Birds Eye
Conic section with two focal points ELLIPSE
Connection used to attach a hose to a water main HYDRANT
Cumbrian river which enters the Irish Sea at Workington DERWENT
Devotional name for Communion bread and wine blessed sacrament
European explorer who discovered New Zealand Abel Tasman
Father McKenzie is also named in this Beatles song Eleanor Rigby
Gourd fruit with a striped skin Ogen melon
Henchman of Auric Goldfinger ODDJOB
In America, any fizzy soft drink SODA
Largest living lizard species Komodo dragon
Clues Answers
Main antagonist of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy steerpike
Of a payment, made with no acceptance of liability ex gratia
Official language of Cambodia KHMER
Owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire Heston Blumenthal
Pauley Perrette plays gothic forensic scientist ____ Sciuto in NCIS ABBY
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s 1960s TV show Not Only But Also
Phylum of segmented worms ANNELIDA
Popular music pianist born Trevor Stanford Russ Conway
Punk band featuring guitarist (formerly bassist) Captain Sensible The Damned
Release eggs OVULATE
River which forms part of the border between Germany and Poland ODER
Silky cloth with raised design BROCADE
Simon and Garfunkel song which starts with boarding a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh AMERICA
Site of a notorious massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho natives in 1864 Sand Creek
Small marsupial made popular in a game, originally for the Sony PlayStation BANDICOOT
State capital of Maine AUGUSTA
Strong tissue connecting bones LIGAMENT
Terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, some of which slowed the progress of Allied forces in Operation Overlord BOCAGE
The opposite of zenith NADIR
The ____ is based on memoirs of governess Anna Leonowens King and I
This instrument of Austria and Switzerland inspired a theme in the finale of Brahms’s first symphony ALPENHORN
To sing while rapidly switching from natural to falsetto YODEL
To stop a sailing vessel’s progress heave to
Truro, Chatham, and Barnstable are on this peninsula Cape Cod
Urchin RAGAMUFFIN
US golfer who hit the honorary starting tee shot of the US Masters from 1984 to 2002 Sam Snead
Variety of winter-ripening pear Nelis
Water-borne sheet detached from an ice field FLOE
Wordsworth poem popularly known as Daffodils I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud