The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 275

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Clues Answers
“I didn’t really mean those nasty words” no offence
“O, Beulah, peel me a ____” (Mae West in I’m No Angel) GRAPE
“Procrastination is the ____ of time” (Edward Young) THIEF
“Retail ____” (business proverb) is detail
“The ____” was a political cliché coined by CP Snow in a novel, and the title of a later one Corridors of Power
13th-century ____ Budejovice was a famous beer’s birthplace ceske
1987 ITV series in which Robbie Coltrane fronted the Majestics, a Scottish pop group Tutti Frutti
A challenging experience; a sea with no water MARE
A description of Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 presidential election the big lie
A fruit tree trained to grow flat, often against a wall ESPALIER
A process that really happens in one’s mind a change of heart
A ____ line, which intersects all meridians at the same angle, is a straight line on a chart using the Mercator projection RHUMB
According to the Oxford Reference website, “Britain’s most famous amateur dramatic society” footlights club
Adjective often seen in recipes, but not describing food OVENPROOF
An ordinary man behaving like an aristocrat Lord Muck
As a particular sound, English for nöff-nöff in Swedish or boo-boo in Japanese OINK
Author of the Discworld novels Terry Pratchett
Body part with meadows, according the song Stardust HEART
Column feature which distinguishes architecture’s three classical orders CAPITAL
Edouard Manet’s A ____ includes two bottles of Bass Bar at the Folies Bergere
Equipment for this sport might be used to imitate the works of Jackson Pollock PAINTBALL
Forename of at least two female ministers in 21st-century Conservative governments THERESA
Former medium for transmitting stock price information ticker tape
Fruit named after a body part navel orange
Historically, an eastern European lancer UHLAN
Clues Answers
Ian ____ wrote the Inspector Rebus crime novels RANKIN
In the Ehrenstein illusion, a square on ____ circles seems to have curved sides CONCENTRIC
In three of golf’s four majors, this describes a second playoff if it’s needed sudden death
Javanese staple protein, a fermented soya bean product TEMPEH
Mathematician John ____’s best-known idea was, in his own words, “representing propositions by inclusive and exclusive circles” VENN
More formally, the pips time signal
Most of this island is on map 1 in the OS Landranger series YELL
One ____ is about 0.0175 radians DEGREE
Perversely named body of water in Kensington Gardens Round Pond
Small but aggressive European fish, with a large dorsal fin ruffe
Someone who ____ someone else fills their role does duty for
St Petersburg’s Church of the Saviour ____ was built where Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 On Spilled Blood
Statesman revered in both Taiwan and communist China Sun Yat-sen
The F in FBI FEDERAL
The instrument played by Leon Goossens and Heinz Holliger OBOE
The oxide yellowcake is often made in ____ production URANIUM
The ____ is a possible target for a cricket bowler corridor of uncertainty
The ____ Mark 2 was seen in Inspector Morse and Withnail and I JAGUAR
To make someone popular ENDEAR
To ____ something is to make it possible arrange for
TV quiz round in which a klaxon is often heard General Ignorance
Vaclav ____ was the last president of Czechoslovakia HAVEL
Very upset by something in bits
Word that can follow coconut, fiddler and spider CRAB
____ water is normally found in river estuaries BRACKISH