The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 283

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“The ____ are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them” (Jean de La Fontaine) FASTIDIOUS
1965 war film which premiered on the 21st anniversary of the beginning of its titular event Battle Of The Bulge
19th-century dance with a name suggesting a Polish origin varsovienne
A further broadcast of a TV show RERUN
A Scot claiming unemployment benefit is “____” on the broo
A small mountain lake, usually in a glacial cirque TARN
A young male eloper, named after a romantic hero in Walter Scott’s Marmion LOCHINVAR
Actor who rose to fame in The Office and appeared in three Pirates of the Caribbean films Mackenzie Crook
America’s prairies are examples of this type of landscape STEPPE
Among US state flags, the unique feature of that of Hawaii union jack
Anglicised spelling of the capital of Italy’s Liguria region GENOA
Breaking down of organic tissue, eg in metamorphosis histolysis
Buckinghamshire town once described by Bill Bailey as “Satan’s lay-by” milton keynes
Canadian humorist Stephen ____ observed that “angling” is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish LEACOCK
City of Punjab, centre of the Sikh faith AMRITSAR
Colloquially, jargon used by ecological campaigners greenspeak
County described as “that mysterious and romantic land” by Stanley Baldwin SHROPSHIRE
English female gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Claudia Fragapane
Evil sorcerer sent to stop the Faerie Queene’s knights archimago
Fifa’s original World Cup trophy was named after ____ Jules Rimet
Flemish composer Adrian ____ was maestro di capella at St Mark’s, Venice, 1527-62 WILLAERT
Goalkeeper who scored from a record-breaking distance of 97.5 yards in 2013 for Stoke City against Southampton Asmir Begovic
Greek goddess of victory NIKE
Heitor ____, South America’s best-known classical composer, wrote Bachinanas Brasilieras Villa-Lobos
Horrid Henry’s great aunt GRETA
Clues Answers
In music, moderately soft mezzo piano
Informally, crammed with people or things chocka
Irish comedian who said he first gave up smoking aged 8 Dave Allen
Landlocked country whose capital is Ouagadougou burkina faso
Late comedian, a long-term team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats Sean Lock
Military tactic used extensively by the Viet Cong AMBUSH
Mixture of fat and flour, used as a thickener ROUX
Novelist who wrote the poem The Listeners along with many works for children Walter De La Mare
One who lives by or near flowing water RIVERAIN
One who would study the Zend-Avesta ZOROASTRIAN
Peanuts character usually seen with a blue security blanket LINUS
Practice which features asanas YOGISM
Prepare to play just before a tennis match knock up
Roald Dahl’s title character with psychokinetic powers MATILDA
Scorer of one England goal in the 1966 World Cup Final Martin Peters
The 1958 ____ of Nantes gave Huguenots freedom of worship EDICT
The Earth is a example of this type of spheroid OBLATE
The fat of a pig LARD
The home of England’s only working slate mine, between Buttermere and Borrowdale Honister Pass
The Swiss-French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier
The USA’s first electronic programmable computer, completed in 1945 ENIAC
Two-act opera by Leoncavallo — literally “clowns” PAGLIACCI
Word which may precede “suit” or “lizard” LOUNGE
____ differ in atomic structures but not formulae ISOMERS
____ has about 22 per cent of Earth’s surface fresh water Lake Baikal