The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 185

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“In all my associations with hunters, travellers and naturalists, I have never yet been able to find one who would defend the ____” (Theodore Roosevelt) HYENA
“Love truth, but pardon ____” (Voltaire) ERROR
“The Russians are liars — you can’t trust them” (Harry S Truman, talking about the 1945 ____ conference) POTSDAM
“The ____” is a local informal name for the Witwatersrand scarp REEF
1954 epic film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai
A kind of profanity deleted in Watergate tape transcripts EXPLETIVE
A lanthanide, one of four elements all named after the same mining village in Sweden ERBIUM
A rounded convex architectural moulding OVOLO
A seemingly bottomless chasm ABYSS
Abbreviated, a weapon such as the Peacekeeper ICBM
American actress; wife of Shakespeare Anne Hathaway
An area of flat unforested grassland STEPPE
As a musical instruction, gradually slowing and becoming quieter CALANDO
Australian female tennis player, currently the world No 1 Ashleigh Barty
Baseball catcher and manager who said “If you come to a fork in the road, take it” Yogi Berra
Birthmarks or moles NAEVI
Capital of Cambodia Phnom Penh
Central character of The Merchant of Venice PORTIA
Cheshire town which is popular with train-spotters CREWE
Coconut husk fibre COIR
Composer of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) Gustav Mahler
Computer which beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess in 1996 Deep Blue
Controversial 1959 William S Burroughs novel Naked Lunch
Flat grey sheet of cloud STRATUS
French cheese similar to Gruyère COMTE
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Genus to which holly belongs ILEX
Horace: “Dolly Levi, you are a damned ____ woman” Dolly: “Why Horace Vandergelder, that is the nicest thing you have ever said to me” (Hello, Dolly!) EXASPERATING
Irish author whose debut novel was The Country Girls Edna O'Brien
Italian flatbread topped with herbs and salt FOCACCIA
Jewish woman who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus Mary Magdalene
King Lear character with an illegitimate son, Edmund Earl of Gloucester
Le Baiser, an Auguste Rodin sculpture of 1882 The Kiss
Lewd bespectacled comic creation of Les Dawson Cosmo Smallpiece
Maori term for someone of European descent pakeha
Marks in the same places as Christ’s crucifixion wounds STIGMATA
Medieval Latin hymn referenced in many works of classical music Dies Irae
Mercury, to alchemists AZOTH
Mozart opera about a king of Crete IDOMENEO
Musical composition used as practice material, or to display virtuosity ETUDE
Plant known as Adam’s needle YUCCA
Plant of the daisy family’s “flea-bane” genus ERIGERON
Region at the eastern end of the mainland in ancient Greece ATTICA
Sinew TENDON
Spooks character, an MI5 intelligence analyst, played by Nicola Walker Ruth Evershed
Sumo wrestler Rikishi
Swiss town in Valais, famed as a ski resort ZERMATT
Tangled thickets of shrubs in the southwestern USA CHAPARRAL
The author of Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
The ____, Ealing comedy named after a Battersea street Lavender Hill Mob
Title of singles by Aretha Franklin, Nik Kershaw, Split Enz, and Debbie Gibson One Step Ahead