The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 267

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“I am determined to be ____ after my long day’s botheration” (Mr Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities) PEEVISH
“It is better to make mistakes than to ____” (Sri Chinmoy) lie idle
“Those who trust us educate us” (____ by George Eliot) daniel deronda
1996 gothic horror film starring Julia Roberts as Dr Henry Jekyll’s housemaid Mary Reilly
1998 Scottish black comedy film about four siblings preparing for their mother’s funeral ORPHANS
A benign fatty tumour LIPOMA
A broad bay BIGHT
A glazed opening in a roof SKYLIGHT
A message and its replies on an Internet forum THREAD
Actress who has had roles in Footballers’ Wives, The Bill and Hollyoaks, as well as EastEnders Gillian Taylforth
Although a box office failure, this 1991 Coen brothers film won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or award Barton Fink
Arthur Sullivan’s popular 1877 setting of an Adelaide Anne Procter poem The Lost Chord
At the start of Red Dwarf, Dave Lister wakes from three million years in ____ STASIS
Bert’s roommate in Sesame Street ERNIE
Car manufacturer whose models include the Aventador LAMBORGHINI
Chewed stimulant of the Andes COCA
Co-star of Jimmy Edwards in the BBC radio comedy series Take It From Here Dick Bentley
Company which merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997 BOEING
Croydon transmitting station is in the Upper ____ area of south London NORWOOD
CS Lewis’s fictional land, south of the River Shribble NARNIA
English physicist who suggested the existence of a particular ionosphere layer Oliver Heaviside
Extraordinary ____ is governmental transfer of a person to another country, to circumvent laws on human rights RENDITION
Former monastery in North Yorks Moors National Park Rievaulx Abbey
Former movement in India promoting the use of Indian-made products rather than imports SWADESHI
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French general who accepted Germany’s request for an armistice to end the First World War Ferdinand Foch
In bridge, if a contract is defeated, the penalty awarded to the defending side depends on the number of ____s undertrick
Informally, prominent people, such as those in show-business GLITTERATI
Leggings which formerly protected clothing from mud spatterdashes
Louisiana and Yucatan both lie on this ocean basin Gulf of Mexico
Music’s Romantic period is sometimes described as ____ post-classical
Percussion instrument with jingles on its perimeter TAMBOURINE
Protagonist of a novella which ends with “God bless Us, Every One!” Ebenezer Scrooge
Rhyming games cramboes
Star of many films including Enter the Dragon Bruce Lee
Strips on the side of woven fabric, preventing unravelling SELVEDGES
Subordinate added items ADJUNCTS
Swiss Alpine resort and, informally, the World Economic Forum hosted there annually DAVOS
The capital of Jordan AMMAN
The capital of Peru LIMA
The imbalance between use of fossil fuels and counteractive measures carbon debt
Tver, Kazan and Astrakhan are on this river VOLGA
Watt-seconds JOULES
West Indies bowler who took seven wickets for one run against Australia in 1993 Curtly Ambrose
Willy Loman is the lead role in this Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman
Word for “beaten” which, in internet lingo, often has its first letter changed to P OWNED
x.y.com is a ____ of y.com subdomain
____ has represented England in all formats of cricket Moeen Ali
____ warfare is named from its use in the Peninsular War GUERRILLA