The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 245

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“Ago”, as in the title of a well-known Scottish song SYNE
“As a pomegranate, cut in twain / White-seeded, is her ____ mouth” (Oscar Wilde) CRIMSON
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately ____ decree” (Coleridge) pleasure-dome
1993 comedy film about Jamaican Olympic bobsleighing Cool Runnings
1999 film starring Anjelica Huston, based on the novel The Mammy by Brendan O’Carroll Agnes Browne
2000-year old ruler of the fictional lost kingdom of Kor SHE
A Deutscher Wachtelhund is also called a German ____ SPANIEL
Actor who played Steve Biko in Cry Freedom Denzel Washington
After rice, maize and wheat, this plant provides the world’s fourth biggest crop by value SOYA
American name for a winter festival comestible candy apple
Area of South America used by Nasa to simulate Mars Atacama Desert
Beast of Greek myth, part man and part bull MINOTAUR
Bernice Rubens became the first female Booker prizewinner for this novel The Elected Member
Comedian who supposedly made the UK’s first mobile phone call Ernie Wise
Common name of Hyoscyamus niger, a plant formerly associated with witchcraft HENBANE
Crusader stronghold, captured by Mamluk forces in 1291 ACRE
Digital pens STYLI
England’s main wicketkeeper in Test matches, 2007-14 Matt Prior
Every winter the Grand Palais in Paris becomes the world's biggest indoor ____ ice rink
Forest tree fruits fed to pigs MAST
Former Conservative MP who lost the whip for supporting Hilary Benn’s bill ruling out a unilateral no-deal Brexit Oliver Letwin
German tennis player, a finalist at this year’s US Open Alexander Zverev
Hardstoft No 1, near Tibshelf in Derbyshire was the UK’s first inland ____ oil well
Hawaiian for “mountain”, used in volcano names MAUNA
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Henry ____ is the fictional father of Emma and Isabella WOODHOUSE
Image source for websites Photo feed
In Greek myth, an argonaut who became king of Iolcus ACASTUS
In music, “very”, and an alternative spelling of a berry noted for its nutritional properties ASSAI
In music, relatively long grace notes appoggiaturas
Lacquer derived from a species of sumac Japan varnish
Let’s ____ is the first track of the Prince album Purple Rain go crazy
Lychnis flos-cuculi, a campion named for its divided petals ragged Robin
Mineral also called saltpetre NITRE
Name for a run-down area, derived from a log-hauling track skid row
Name for Bo Darville in three films with Burt Reynolds The Bandit
Name for St Paul in the vision of Ananias (Acts 9:11) Saul of Tarsus
One of the two disciplines in Olympic weightlifting clean and jerk
Particle which is the site of protein synthesis in a cell RIBOSOME
Paul ____, artist popularised after his death by art dealer Ambroise Vollard GAUGUIN
Photographer noted for images of the American west Ansel Adams
Protagonist and narrator of the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn
Seville’s leading painter in the late 17th century MURILLO
Special ____ help vulnerable or intimidated witnesses to give evidence MEASURES
The superior ____ returns blood to the heart from the head, neck and upper limbs vena cava
The top left key on many keyboards ESC
Third month of the Jewish civil calendar KISLEV
Usual name for an American mass media conglomerate founded by the current chairman’s grandfather HEARST
Volcanic island, the “Lighthouse of the Mediterranean” STROMBOLI