The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 282

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“The mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to ____ things” (Thoreau) TRIVIAL
1980s decathlon world record holder Jurgen ____ never beat Daley Thompson in a major championship HINGSEN
1984 gold medal winner matching Jesse Owens in 1936 Carl Lewis
2016 and 2020 Olympics Pommel horse gold medallist Max Whitlock
2020 Olympic event in which two British gold medallists both rode the same horse modern pentathlon
A big increase in a particular view among a population GROUNDSWELL
A car used for short, usually urban, trips RUNABOUT
A fabric-covered elastic hair tie SCRUNCHIE
A person in charge of a trained dog HANDLER
A seemingly ideal place for altitude training TIBET
A verbal scolding ear-bashing
A ____ offers tourists a safe version of cowboy life dude ranch
According to Oscar Wilde, one knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing CYNIC
Alexandre ____ wrote The Count of Monte Cristo DUMAS
Alphabetic character, the epitome of smallness IOTA
An issue for proofreaders to worry about HYPHENATION
Ben ____ won Finn class Olympic gold thrice before 17A ainslie
Biblical patriarch who lived on Earth for 365 years ENOCH
Britain’s most decorated Olympian, a cyclist who won 2016 and 2020 Keirin gold medals Jason Kenny
British sailor who won the Finn class at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics Giles Scott
Catchphrase of Alf Garnett it stands to reason
Conductor contacting a non-metallic part of a circuit ELECTRODE
Democratic Unionist Party leader, 1971-2008 Ian Paisley
Editor of the BBC’s Monitor arts programme, 1958-62 Huw Wheldon
Former American football star convicted of armed robbery in 2008 O J Simpson
Former general, Israel’s prime minister from 2001 to 2006 Ariel Sharon
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Funder of local government in England before 1990 RATEPAYER
Hi-fi unit with (eg) CD and cassette players and a radio music centre
Hindu goddess of wealth and beauty LAKSHMI
I Wanna Be ____ was the first track on the 1989 Stone Roses debut album ADORED
In one of two spellings, an old name for a blackbird, still used in names of other birds OUSEL
In organic chemistry, a methyl group is the smallest possible ____ group ALKYL
Jim ____ won 100m Olympic gold in 1968, with the first official time under 10 seconds HINES
Josh ____’s Tokyo bronze was Britain’s first medal in the men’s 1500m since Peter Elliott’s silver in 1988 KERR
Leonhard ____ gave i and e their mathematical meanings EULER
Marine creature with a body full of pores and channels SPONGE
North American informal alternative to “surrender” cry uncle
Not in the know UNINITIATED
Olympic fencing event in which Italians won individual gold from 1932 to 1960 EPEE
Part of an archery target’s central 10 ring INNER
President of Egypt from 1970 until his 1981 assassination Anwar Sadat
Roman statesman and general who defeated Antony and Cleopatra’s forces at the battle of Actium AGRIPPA
Scenic part of County Galway, where Irish is widely spoken CONNEMARA
Testification location witness box
The International Day of ____s takes place on the anniversary of the foundation of the UN DIPLOMAT
To ____ a male chicken is to castrate it caponise
Type of card pack first documented in 15th-century Italy TAROT
Using theoretical deduction rather than observation a priori
William Cobbett’s book about the English countryside Rural Rides
Wordless improvised singing ECRU
____ won 2016 and 2020 Olympic 100m breaststroke gold Adam Peaty