The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 179

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Clues Answers
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious” (Peter ____) USTINOV
A combination of three letters representing one sound TRIGRAPH
A concertina or accordion squeeze box
A Lancashire ____ has a fixed blade with no pivot, and a handle wrapped in string PEELER
Actor who played scheming private detective Pat Healy in There’s Something About Mary Matt Dillon
Addis Ababa is the capital of ____ ETHIOPIA
Author of The Color Purple Alice Walker
BBC Two sitcom starring Steve Coogan as a former roadie saxondale
Boss, colloquially GUV
Brahma, Shiva, and ___ form the Trimurti of Hinduism VISHNU
British rock band named after a Vulcan elder in Star Trek T'Pau
Chelsea head coach who scored 147 goals for them as a player Frank Lampard
Co-star of Jan Francis in the sitcom Just Good Friends Paul Nicholas
Comedy actor who played Holly in Red Dwarf Norman Lovett
Comedy actress who played Holly in Red Dwarf Hattie Hayridge
Courtier sent by Claudius to invite Hamlet to duel with Laertes OSRIC
David Balfour is the narrator of this novel by Robert Louis Stevenson KIDNAPPED
De ____ is an antonym of “austere” LUXE
First novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson Along Came A Spider
Former surname of Mavis Wilton in Coronation Street RILEY
General knowledge quiz show originally hosted by William G Stewart Fifteen to One
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ____, German philosopher noted for his work on idealism HEGEL
Greek city in which Alexander the Great prepared to invade Asia AMPHIPOLIS
Greek god of darkness EREBUS
Green laver, a marine plant with edible fronds sea lettuce
Clues Answers
Horizontal passage leading into a mine ADIT
Informally, identification worn on a soldier’s neck dog tag
Layer of material placed as a seal between surfaces in an engine GASKET
Legal decision often made by a mufti FATWA
Lightning Seeds single of 1994, the first from the album Jollification Lucky You
Located on Washington state’s Columbia River, the USA’s largest power station by installed capacity Grand Coulee Dam
Marsh plant with small yellow flowers bog asphodel
Mimed playing of a particular musical instrument air guitar
Month shared by the zodiac signs Virgo and Libra SEPTEMBER
North London river with the same name as a tributary of the Rhine MOSELLE
Of a nucleic acid in biochemistry, having two partly mismatched strands from different parent molecules heteroduplex
Serbian footballer who, as manager, took both Watford and Fulham to the Premier League Slavisa Jokanovic
Sitcom starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer as time goes by
The beginning of something, or a violent attack ONSET
The first bowler to take a hat-trick in Twenty20 International cricket Brett Lee
The Hungarian “wine of kings, king of wines” TOKAY
The largest city of western Ukraine LVIV
The Marvel Comics alter ego of Steve Rogers Captain America
The physical process of ageing SENESCENCE
The Spanish equivalent of William GUILLERMO
The work of editing and dubbing a film after shooting post-production
Those who believe in God as one person rather than a Trinity UNITARIANS
To chew MASTICATE
To impose a discretionary fine AMERCE
____, Larry and Curly were the Three Stooges MOE