The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 138

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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, ____” (Winston Churchill) Hoping it will eat him last
“Love and ____ are the best sweeteners of tea” (Henry Fielding) SCANDAL
“The smiles of love adorn, — / ____ / Makes countless thousands mourn!” (Robert Burns) man's inhumanity to man
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without ____” (W H Auden) WATER
(Attempted) reconciliation between different religions or philosophies SYNCRETISM
1981 film about a paralysed sculptor, adapted from a TV drama and stage play by Brian Clark Whose Life Is It Anyway
1990 action film starring Jean-Claude van Damme as a legionnaire LIONHEART
A pig’s ____ is the source of pork chops LOIN
A plain cotton cloth CALICO
A sleeveless pullover tank top
A word for a large boat from the Mediterranean, apparently not related to a famous boat of Greek myth ARGOSY
Agony aunt whose autobiography was titled How Did I Get Here from There? Claire Rayner
Athlete whose winning heptathlon score at the 1988 Olympics is still the world record Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee
Book identification code, with 13 digits since 2007 ISBN
Cannabis sativa Indian hemp
Charles ____ created the cartoon strip Peanuts SCHULZ
City in Florida’s Greater Orlando area KISSIMMEE
Computer file extension for programs rather than data EXE
Director of films including Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee
Eponymous time-traveller, played by Geoffrey Bayldon in a 1970s children’s TV series catweazle
Exempt from payment toll-free
Feast day held on November 1 All Hallows
Final word in the text of Puccini’s La Bohème MIMI
Fluid-carrying tube in a plant or animal VAS
Former German figure skater, a judge in one series of Dancing on Ice Katarina Witt
Former Russian gymnast with seven floor, beam, and vault skills named after her Nellie Kim
James single which, in three different versions, charted in 1989, 1991, and 1998 Sit Down
Jane Austen novel set in the fictional village of Highbury EMMA
Largest city in France’s Moselle department METZ
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Latin legal term for trespass with force and violence vi et armis
Latin-based name for rock fragments ejected from a volcano, between volcanic bombs and volcanic ash in size LAPILLI
Line behind which a darts player stands OCHE
Machine often used to clean the exterior of stone buildings SANDBLASTER
Male chicken fattened for eating CAPON
Old Testament book about an attempt to exterminate the Jewish nation ESTHER
Old-fashioned term for left-handedness sinisterity
One of the two vegetables used to make vichyssoise LEEK
One who provokes others to anger NEEDLER
Opinion expressed in interviews with members of the public vox pop
Piedmont province noted for its sparkling wine ASTI
Poetry collection by Arthur Rimbaud, and a Benjamin Britten song cycle setting parts of it Les Illuminations
Presenter of ITV’s The Big Fight Live, 1984-2010 Jim Rosenthal
Racing driver known as The Stig on Top Gear Ben Collins
The current 10 Down for Defence Gavin Williamson
The final studio album by the Beatles Let It Be
The first of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels Casino Royale
The muse of epic poetry CALLIOPE
The Swedish version of mulled wine GLOGG
The trumpet major of Thomas Hardy’s novel John Loveday
Title given to a cabinet minister in charge of a department Secretary of State
Title given to a Muslim fighter against infidels GHAZI
To soften or smooth EMOLLIATE
Tropical tree or the orange food dye derived from it ANNATTO
Turn into vinegar acetify
Weeds with yellow flowers, milky juice and edible leaves sow thistles
What a judge does before the jury retires sum up
Wood also known as “African teak” IROKO
____ beat Serena Williams in the 2018 Wimbledon women’s singles final Angelique Kerber