The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 272

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“April is the cruellest month” starts this TS Eliot poem The Waste Land
“Experience is by ____ achieved, / And perfected by the swift course of time” (Two Gentlemen of Verona) INDUSTRY
1966 Hammer horror film starring Christopher Lee Rasputin The Mad Monk
1982 “best of” album by the Sex Pistols Kiss This
A 1683 plan to assassinate Charles II and his brother Rye House Plot
A flexor muscle of the thigh or upper arm BICEPS
A noun formed from a verb, ending with -ing in English GERUND
Alias of Alfredo Bowman, the self-proclaimed herbal healer whose clients included Michael Jackson and John Travolta Dr Sebi
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is a 2018 autobiography by this comedian Eric Idle
An ancient underground chamber or passage in Cornwall fogou
Ancient region of Italy, roughly corresponding to modern Tuscany ETRURIA
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird harper lee
Brightest star of the Aquila constellation ALTAIR
Canvas embroidery using small stitches petit point
Cephalopod molluscs with spiral shells NAUTILI
Chinese for “long”, seen in ____ Jiang as an alternative name for the Yangtze River CHANG
Clear, strong alcoholic drink from eastern and northern Europe, usually made from grain, potato, or fruit SCHNAPPS
Cloud gaming service launched by Google in 2019 STADIA
County town of East Sussex, noted for Bonfire Night celebrations LEWES
Farmers AGRICULTURISTS
Fiat supermini produced from 1993 to 2018 PUNTO
Goddess of love in Scandinavian mythology FREYA
Gunfire which sweeps across an enemy line ENFILADE
In astronomy, the reappearance of a celestial body following an eclipse EGRESS
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In golfing lingo, an area of dense rough tiger country
Income from an investment, often expressed as a percentage of its cost or current value YIELD
Incorrectly titled theme song for a 1970s children’s TV programme, also a 1971 single Rupert the Bear
Italian clothing retailer; a former Formula One team owned by its founding family until 2001 BENETTON
John ___ was a long-standing manager of Dartington summer school, and panellist on the BBC’s My Music programme AMIS
Keenly vigilant, from Io’s guardian in Greek mythology argus-eyed
Knighted Briton who has recently said that “I don’t like being defined as a cyclist any more” Bradley Wiggins
Latin phrase equating to “while not present” in absentia
Mother of the French king Louis XIV Anne of Austria
Noddy’s friend and father figure Big Ears
One very interested in motion pictures CINEASTE
One-piece garment worn by gymnasts, dancers etc UNITARD
Port and resort which is Israel’s only town on the Red Sea EILAT
Purple-black tree fruit, a common choice for wine-making ELDERBERRY
Rodin sculpture depicting a scene in Dante’s Inferno The Gates Of Hell
The x coordinate of a point in 2D Cartesian coordinates ABSCISSA
The A of VAT ADDED
The famous Rodeo Drive shopping area is in this US city beverly hills
The Greek muse of history CLIO
The Song of Simeon nunc dimittis
The ____ and Pittsburgh Steelers have won the Super Bowl six times New England Patriots
Type of arachnid living in a covered burrow trapdoor spider
Waterway which effectively makes the Peloponnese peninsula an island Corinth Canal
Wiltshire town whose pedestrian area has a re-erected 16th-century butter cross chippenham