The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 281

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“I ____ the noble housewife with the time, to entertain it so merrily with a fool” (All’s Well That Ends Well) PLAY
“Not the archers. […] Arrows cost money. ____ the Irish. The dead cost nothing.” (Edward I, in Braveheart) use up
“The two divinest things this world has got / A lovely woman in a ____ spot!” (Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini) RURAL
“Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant ____ of those who merely happen to be walking about” (GK Chesterton) OLIGARCHY
“____ particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we’re so interested in them” (Steven Weinberg) ELEMENTARY
18th-century French writer of the play Turcaret and the picaresque novel Gil Blas Alain-Rene Lesage
A bird of the rail family CRAKE
A bird similar to a cormorant, but slightly smaller SHAG
A letter of the Greek alphabet which is hardly ever used in mathematical notation OMICRON
A name for a left-wing lifestyle, coined by Tom Wolfe radical chic
A person who works in the “black gold” industry OILMAN
Actor who starred alongside John Travolta in the 1996 film Broken Arrow Christian Slater
American soldier, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, and one of the founders of Vermont Ethan Allen
An American term for a nuclear reactor catastrophe China syndrome
Author of the poetry collections Amores and Tristia OVID
Author of The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall
Bull’s Blood of ____ was a Hungarian red wine promoted in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s EGER
Description of a house with single lower and upper main rooms one-up one-down
Descriptive name of Ophiuchus, the constellation between Scorpius and Orion the Serpent Bearer
Early bicycles with front wheel pedals VELOCIPEDES
Film director David ____ created Twin Peaks with Mark Frost LYNCH
Former Shropshire waterway which featured Telford’s first cast-iron aqueduct Shrewsbury Canal
Having a number of different hues VARICOLOURED
Clues Answers
In a restaurant, the leg and loin of (nearly always) a deer HAUNCH
In David Copperfield, Dickens tells us that Mr Micawber’s favourite expression is “in case anything ____” turned up
In psychoanalysis, the impulse associated with sexual instinct LIBIDO
In the 17th century, a broken ____ was a group of musicians playing different instruments CONSORT
Ivan ____ is best known for his work on conditioned reflexes PAVLOV
More difficult to understand OPAQUER
Moved with an up and down rocking motion SEESAWED
New Zealand’s most populous city AUCKLAND
Of a law, applied retrospectively ex post facto
Of weather, to improve clear up
Parisian fashion house founded in 1932 Nina Ricci
Referee who sent off three players in the 2007 League Cup final between Chelsea and Arsenal Howard Webb
Russian multiple rocket launcher of the Second World War, named after a patriotic song katyusha
Sega’s equivalent to Nintendo’s Mario Sonic the Hedgehog
Teammate of Lewis Hamilton since 2017 Valtteri Bottas
That which is tempting but dangerous or illegal forbidden fruit
The 1965 autobiography of Sammy Davis, Jr Yes I Can
The Man of Property is the first of three novels in The ____ forsyte saga
The manner of a disease’s development pathogenesis
Topping for some scones Devonshire cream
Travels standing up on urban public transport strap-hangs
Webpages using converted printed marketing material brochureware
Words asking a horse to start or increase pace giddy-up