The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 261

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Clues Answers
“All the ____ people, where do they all come from?” (Eleanor Rigby lyrics) LONELY
1970s Sunday night TV series about a shipping company The Onedin Line
A keyboard instrument JOANNA
Combs and saws have them hampstead Heath
Indian food ruby Murray
Section of the Metropolitan Police sweeney todd
These have risers and treads apples and pears
This is a clue scooby doo
To depart in a hurry scapa Flow
You may see this in a bun barnet fair
A coffeehouse’s server of coffee BARISTA
A railway across Australia’s ____ Plain has the world’s longest stretch of straight track nullarbor
A US name for some bedside furniture night tables
A ____ king or queen may use 27A PEARLY
An admiral’s aide-de-camp flag lieutenant
An American name for a travelling rug lap robe
Anthony ____ was the UK’s prime minister during the Suez crisis EDEN
Biased or below the belt UNFAIR
Code inserted into software to set off a malicious function in specific circumstances logic bomb
Dudley Moore’s Little Miss Britten skit parodied the voice of Peter ____ PEARS
Expression meaning “comes into view” heaves in sight
Fish imported into the UK during the Second World War SNOEK
George Town is the capital of the ____ Islands CAYMAN
Hungarian prime minister Imre ____ was deposed by a Soviet military invasion in 1956 NAGY
Hydrocarbon gas used in welding ACETYLENE
Clues Answers
If someone ____ something, they devour it enthusiastically tucks into
In grammar, to match in inflectional form AGREE
In physics, a reflecting or refracting surface free from spherical aberration aplanat
Left hastily and/or furtively did a runner
Member of a biological clade including birds, reptiles and mammals, named after a membrane surrounding the foetus AMNIOTE
Old English letter now replaced by the last two letters of its name ETH
One of Islam’s “pillars” (spelling with a doubled consonant) HAJJ
People making false claims about their lives and achievements FANTASISTS
Player of the upper part in a piano duet PRIMO
Pseudo-archaic verb, meaning “know” WIS
See 27A ITALICISED
Small green grandmaster of the Jedi Order YODA
Something causing (possibly overstated) disgust ABOMINATION
State of inactivity or equilibrium STASIS
The “helicopter seed” of trees in the Fraxinus genus ash key
The answers to the eight 6A clues in this puzzle are examples of ____ cockney rhyming slang
The densest naturally occurring element OSMIUM
The ____ tube connects the middle ear to the pharynx EUSTACHIAN
To be taken over by an emotion or indication of it, such as laughter subside into
Tourist attraction where you may see a representation of Guy Fawkes or 14A London Dungeon
US state bordering Virginia and Tennessee North Carolina
Variations from standard pitch in jazz blue notes
Words from which later words are derived ETYMA
____ played surgeon Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man Anthony Hopkins
____’s “The man who …” cartoons featured overreactions to minor social gaffes H M Bateman