The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 268

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“At the charming game of croquet I have been her partner twice; I love her, ain’t it ____ — Well, it's ____, but it’s nice” (Music hall singer Arthur Lloyd) NAUGHTY
“The Lord above gave man an arm of iron — But / ____, ____, / Someone else’ll do the blinkin’ work” (My Fair Lady) With a Little Bit of Luck
“They tried to make me go to ____ / I said no, no, no” (Amy Winehouse, in her song of the same name) REHAB
“Who won’t be ____ by the rudder must be ____ by the rock” (17th-century proverb) RULED
1982 TV drama with Bernard Hill as Yosser Hughes Boys from the Blackstuff
A field used for growing rice PADDY
A Lesser Sunda island, divided between two nations TIMOR
A logical but unusual alternative to “travel” as a verb LOCOMOTE
A narrow window with a pointed arch at the top LANCET
An informal alternative to “second-hand” pre-loved
Bird body part; cards left after dealing in some card games TALON
Character in Arthurian legend, normally seen as traitorous MORDRED
Charles and Mary Lamb’s ____ presented famous dramas in a form for young readers Tales from Shakespeare
Compulsory apparatus in the distillation of cognac pot still
Distinguished musicians, in Italian MAESTRI
Film producer Darryl F ____’s last best picture Oscar was for All About Eve in 1951 ZANUCK
Football fans who are very fanatical ULTRAS
In camera film speeds, 27 ____ is equivalent to 400 ASA DIN
In fiction, Sir ____ was also called the Scarlet Pimpernel Percy Blakeney
Institutions testing the purity of precious metals assay offices
James ____ became the oldest ever Boat Race rower at the age of 46, in Cambridge’s winning 2019 eight cracknell
Jane Austen’s matchmaker Emma marries George ____ KNIGHTLEY
Jazz standard title about a New York subway service Take the A Train
Jessica’s philandering husband in the 1977-1981 US TV sitcom Soap Chester Tate
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Kurt ____ wrote the music for Mack the Knife WEILL
Lasse ____ won 5,000 and 10,000 metres gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics VIREN
Male of a British native deer species ROEBUCK
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a famous painting by ____ David Hockney
Over 2,000 miles southeast of Madagascar, the ____ Islands are one of Earth’s remotest places kerguelen
Roman emperor Constantine’s AD313 ____ recognised Christianity Edict of Milan
Rosa Klebb’s rank in From Russia With Love COLONEL
Scottish mainland malt whiskies are Campbeltown, Lowland, Highland or ____ Speyside
Ships converted for use as prisons in 18th and 19th-century Britain HULKS
Someone with lengthy experience in a field old stager
Technically, surgically removed body tissue is ____ ABLATED
The Austin FX4 London taxi could supposedly turn ____ on a sixpence
The composer of Flight of the Bumblebee Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The dwarf who renounces love in Wagner’s Das Rheingold ALBERICH
The main technique used to produce local anaesthesia nerve block
The partner of a sire as a parent of a horse DAM
The superstructure of a submarine conning tower
The volcanoes ____ Kea and ____ Loa form the bulk of Hawaii’s Big Island MAUNA
The world’s most popular cheese, circa 1400-1700 EDAM
To deprive of membership, especially of a school EXPEL
US term for land and/or buildings as property Real estate
____ King of Arms regulates heraldry in Scotland Lord Lyon
____ melons are named after the kibbutz where they were first developed OGEN
____ Sturluson was traditionally seen as the writer of the Prose Edda SNORRI