The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 247

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Clues Answers
“How doth the little busy ___ / Improve each shining hour” (Isaac Watts) BEE
“On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, ____, fortifications, and the like” (Winston Churchill, on dictators) AEROPLANES
“Writing fiction for money is ____” (Stephen King) a mug's game
A “lady” in a misheard 17th-century ballad, now a name for misheard words, especially in song lyrics MONDEGREEN
A ballroom dance which is also a Genesis album title FOXTROT
A curse or malevolent force, or the amulet supposed to protect against it evil eye
A human vein included in a well-known English idiom JUGULAR
A small boat SKIFF
A waitress in the J Lyons & Co chain of tea shops and cafés in London NIPPY
Actor who played Mr Hedges in ITV’s Please Sir! John Alderton
Anthony ____ directed and acted in Shakespeare plays before acting in films in the late 1950s and the 1960s QUAYLE
As often spelled, Marilyn Monroe’s previous name Norma Jean Baker
Character played by David Jason in Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic rincewind
Charles ____’s best-known work is the historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth READE
Chekhov play, reworking his earlier The Wood Demon uncle vanya
Court ____s are not normally worn for tennis SHOE
Cricket fielding position, often taken by a captain mid-off
Dava Sobel’s Longitude was about the horologist John ____ HARRISON
Developed vetting is the highest level of ____ in work for the UK government security clearance
Ed Begley played ____ 10 in 12 Angry Men JUROR
Experimentation to test opinion flying a kite
Forkietail and clipshears are dialect names for this insect EARWIG
George Bernard Shaw play, strongly influenced by Anton Chekhov Heartbreak House
Henri ____ was a leading photojournalist, using candid photography Cartier-Bresson
Henry Wood’s first Promenade Concert in 1895 began with the national anthem and Wagner’s ____ overture RIENZI
Clues Answers
Historic demonstration of reverence in eastern Asia KOWTOW
Historically, beer brewed without hops ALE
Historically, Devil’s Island or Norfolk Island penal settlement
In a French household, this is a “gant de four” oven glove
In maths, the union of A with the ____ is A empty set
Informally, a western film OATER
Inspector played by Martin Shaw in a BBC television series George Gently
Jimmy ____ played a headmaster in the BBC’s Whack-O! sitcom EDWARDS
Kyrzbekistan or San Serriffe non-existent nation
Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 sculpture Fountain featured a ____ URINAL
Of a person, weak or ineffectual WUSSY
One name for the red and white headgear accompanying a famous fictional cat’s bow tie tall hat
Sculptor specialising in public art, whose works appear on pages 24 and 25 of series B UK passports, issued 2015-2020 Anish Kapoor
Site of the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatre POMPEII
Small bird, also called hedge sparrow DUNNOCK
Southeastern area which supplied most of Britain’s iron until coke became a key part of the ironmaking process WEALD
The nationality of the composer Arvo Pärt ESTONIAN
The palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic periods Stone Age
The words starting Genesis in the King James Bible In the Beginning
Title and main character of Anne Brontë’s first published novel Agnes Grey
To be in the arms of Morpheus SLEEP
Type of unglazed pottery, often in Wedgwood blue jasperware
Waste produced in the smelting or refining of ore SLAG
Women’s Olympic 200m and 400m champion in 1996 Marie-Jose Perec