The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 091

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“When it is ____, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red” (St Matthew) EVENING
1967 film about partners in crime Bonnie And Clyde
(Latin) What good would that do me? cui bono
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible PROOFREADER
A person who talks when you wish him to listen BORE
A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness CONVENT
A shackle for the free HABIT
A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus TREE
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her BRIDE
Belonging to me if I can hold it or seize it MINE
Desire and expectation rolled into one HOPE
The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue AUCTIONEER
The patriotic art of lying for one’s country DIPLOMACY
To dine OVEREAT
To lie about another. To tell the truth about another DEFAME
Unable to leave RESIDENT
A blackwater tributary joining the Amazon at Manaus Rio Negro
A cake and (in translation) a viceroy of India were named after this German town BATTENBERG
A child aged about 12 TWEENER
A communications innovation first used in the UK in Norwich (1959) and Croydon postal code
A wide-mouthed pitcher EWER
About four months pregnant MIDTERM
Area of land with multiple buildings built for the same purpose ESTATE
Bad handwriting or spelling, as any fule kno cacography
Captured by means of force STORMED
Clues in italics are from this 1911 book by American satirist Ambrose Bierce the Devil's Dictionary
Cooker component in black, white and red ceramic hob
Cream cheese used in making tiramisu MASCARPONE
Device for retarding a vehicle’s motion drag chain
Distance(s) most often used in connection with golf and American football YARDAGE
Clues Answers
Drawing attention to something to gain advantage making play of
Edson Arantes do Nascimento PELE
Extravagant OTT
Girl from the ____ is a Bob Dylan song influenced by Scarborough Fair North Country
Google ____ is a video chat mobile app DUO
Howard ____ was the first person to referee the Champions League and World Cup finals in the same year WEBB
Informally in the US, to discuss in detail or at length hash over
James ____ was primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 to 1915 MURRAY
Jeanne Moreau and Paulette Goddard have played Célestine in film versions of this 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau Diary Of A Chambermaid
Livid flying off the handle
Long-haired toy dog breed shih-tzu
Phenomenon discovered in 1827 by observation of pollen grains in water Brownian motion
Relating to claimed events without scientific explanation PARANORMAL
Robert Peel’s Tamworth ____ of 1834 promised a review of civil and ecclesiastical institutions MANIFESTO
Something serial used by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, but not Satie, Scarlatti and Sibelius chronological order
Something used to enhance the fit or comfort of a shoe inner sole
Sunday Times journalist with strong views rod Liddle
The “____ shark” is a roof sculpture in an Oxford suburb headington
The 51D flows through ____ just before it reaches the sea PISA
The river Lucy Honeychurch wanted to see from her room at the Pension Bertolini ARNO
The skill of Bradman and Hutton BATSMANSHIP
The summit of Mount ____ is the highest point in the Malay archipelago kinabalu
To be 5D, in informal American usage hang one's hat up
To represent (someone) act for
To ____ the wash is to be revealed at last or turn out well come out in
Today, in Germany sonntag
Unbleached linen or its colour ECRU
With affection for the past NOSTALGIC
____ was a 2001-4 Radio 4 sitcom about a hormonal wife the Change
____’s picture of the wedding at Cana is the largest painting on canvas in the Louvre Paolo Veronese