The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 266

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“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just ____.” (George Best) SQUANDERED
“The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. The ____ is charity itself.” (Darcy in Pride and Prejudice) ADIEU
1927 novel featuring Harry Haller STEPPENWOLF
4.1 million Ford ____s were sold in the UK, 1968-2000 ESCORT
A ___ stalk often garnishes a bloody mary CELERY
Another name for an avocado alligator pear
Athletics track surface, not in Olympic use after 1964 CINDERS
Bam Margera and Johnny Knoxville, for example JACKASSES
Barrister who co-wrote The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister Cherie Blair
Bird in the genus Podicipedidae, commonly “arsefoot”, which means much the same GREBE
Catch-all name given to Theodore Roosevelt’s 1901-09 domestic programme square deal
Colloquial term for an ophthalmologist Eye doctor
Country central to the 19th-century “Great Game” AFGHANISTAN
County symbolised by a rampant white horse KENT
Elvis Presley’s first No 1 hit Heartbreak Hotel
Escaping danger in a cunning way ELUDING
Feminist author of Sexual Personae, published in 1990 Camille Paglia
Host country of the first World Cup URUGUAY
In 1962, Andy Warhol made an eight-hour slow-motion film about this structure Empire State Building
In a modern idiom, to mention something go there
In cuisine, the thymus or pancreas of a lamb or calf SWEETBREADS
Italian city whose main square is dominated by the facade of Basilica di San Petronio, unfinished for over 400 years BOLOGNA
Ken Kesey’s 1960s “____ tests” were counter-culture social events ACID
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Name for an Islamic religious leader rarely heard in the west before 1978 AYATOLLAH
Natural or spontaneous UNTAUGHT
New York’s former “gateway to the New World” Ellis Island
North American river; martyr whose symbol is a gridiron saint lawrence
Novelist who flew a Gloster Gladiator biplane during the Second World War Roald Dahl
Person who refuses to do or support something NAYSAYER
Pigment containing ferric oxide iron red
Prefix meaning “correct”, eg in a word related to dentistry ORTHO
Princess who married Louis XIII in 1615 when they were both 14 years old Anne of Austria
Scottish hunting or fishing assistant GHILLIE
Shrubs cultivated for their domed flower heads HYDRANGEAS
Singer who, in a 2020 Youtube post, adapted his own lyrics to: “Hands, washing hands, reaching out, don’t touch me, I won’t touch you” Neil Diamond
Steven ____ is one half of Aerosmith’s “toxic twins” TYLER
The 1940s Operation Bernhard sought to destabilise this currency pound sterling
The human body’s largest bone which is embedded inside a tendon or muscle PATELLA
The ____ anniversary of the formation of the SAS is in July EIGHTIETH
Trailblazing actor, who won an Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963 Sidney Poitier
Train for tourists which makes weekly journeys from Adelaide to Darwin via Alice Springs the Ghan
Viscountess who became Plymouth’s MP in 1919 Nancy Astor
Wading bird in the same biological family as snipes and curlews SANDPIPER
Warriors defeated by Hercules in his ninth labour AMAZONS
You Were Made for Me was a 1963 hit for this band, noted for co-ordinated dance routines Freddie and the Dreamers
____, the UK’s first working-class cabinet minister (in 1905) later coined the phrase “The Thames is liquid history” John Elliot Burns