The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 242

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“And of course, I always admired a man who wears ____” (David Bowie, of Freddie Mercury) TIGHTS
“Ay me! what perils do ____ / The man that meddles with cold iron!” (Hudibras, Samuel Butler) ENVIRON
“Stupendous, miraculous, ____ / A child to stagger and flabbergast” (Ogden Nash) UNSURPASSED
1960s and 1970s rock band, fronted by Jim Morrison The Doors
1963 comedy film based on a stage musical by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort Irma La Douce
1973 album by Jackson Heights Bump 'n' Grind
1976 horror film starring Lynne Frederick as figure skater Samantha Gray SCHIZO
1986 Queen album, their first to be digitally recorded A Kind Of Magic
A collective noun for whales GAM
A lake, often used in the names of those in the Lake District MERE
Actress who plays Kathy Beale in EastEnders Gillian Taylforth
American baseball player who retired in 1928 but still has the highest ever career batting average Ty Cobb
An error requiring attention, especially in a printed book CORRIGENDUM
Belgian city, a centre of medieval cloth manufacture GHENT
Bulgaria’s most successful male tennis player, junior champion at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2008 Grigor Dimitrov
Canadian stand-up comedian noted for his one-liners Stewart Francis
Character in Tom Brown’s School Days, basis for a series of novels by GM Fraser FLASHMAN
Danish explorer after whom a strait, island, sea, glacier and land bridge are named Vitus Bering
Duet sung by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson on the 1984 concept album version of the musical Chess I Know Him So Well
English soprano, best known for singing Brunnhilde in the 1970s ENO Ring Cycle conducted by Reginald Goodall Rita Hunter
Gina Haspel is the current director of this American organisation CIA
Heraldic device which represents the Order of St John Maltese cross
In Judaism, the seven days of mourning after a funeral SHIVA
Informal name for rabies, from its best-known symptom HYDROPHOBIA
Clues Answers
Japan’s last shogunate, ending in 1867 TOKUGAWA
Leontes, King of Sicily, is a central character in this Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale
Main presenter of BBC News at Ten Huw Edwards
Major Egyptian god, often depicted with green skin OSIRIS
More perilous RISKIER
Mythical horse in tales from the chansons de geste BAYARD
Plant which has been produced by selective breeding CULTIVAR
Popular name for the knifehand strike in martial arts karate chop
Potassium nitrate, often used as a preservative SALTPETRE
Prefix denoting “all” OMNI
Presented again but with no worthwhile improvement REHASHED
Print issued by William Hogarth in 1751 as a negative alternative to Beer Street Gin Lane
Russian author of Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
The capital of Armenia YEREVAN
The pet dog of Charlie Brown SNOOPY
The small black fruits of Ilex glabra, a North American form of holly inkberries
The sort of call which warns of potential difficulty wake-up
The ubiquitous garden pest, historically Helix aspersa but now Cornu aspersum brown snail
The ____ was a BBC radio sitcom aboard HMS Troutbridge Navy Lark
Traditional accompaniment to fish and chips mushy peas
Welsh artist, a leading British portraitist in the 1920s Augustus John
Wife and comedy partner of George Burns Gracie Allen
Wilbur Smith’s debut novel, which introduced the Courtney family When the Lion Feeds
____ Downfall is the Peak District’s highest waterfall KINDER