The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 285

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A saint, prophet or clergyman Man of God
According to Ernest Hemingway, Switzerland is “much more ____ than sideways” up and down
Australian tennis star who, like Ivan Lendl, won every grand slam men’s singles title except Wimbledon at least twice Ken Rosewall
Author of The Tinderbox and The Tin Soldier, portrayed by Danny Kaye in a 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen
Ballet leap in which legs are crossed or beaten together ENTRECHAT
Band once worn on a Eucharist celebrant’s left arm MANIPLE
Bass wind instrument with sinuous tubing, used in village bands around 200 years ago SERPENT
Business offering refreshments and use of computers internet cafe
Canada’s North and South ____ rivers originate from glaciers in the Rockies and merge near Prince Albert on the way to Lake Winnipeg SASKATCHEWAN
Clive Anderson became the main host of this Radio 4 programme after Ned Sherrin died in 2007 loose ends
Cocktail of brandy, orange liqueur and lemon juice SIDECAR
Cold dish including cucumber, tomatoes, olives and feta Greek salad
Dutch “klompen” are an example of this kind of footwear CLOGS
Eastern Austria’s “iron town”, where Haydn is buried in the Bergkirche EISENSTADT
Emma Carus was the first singer of this Irving Berlin classic, in Chicago in 1911 Alexanders Ragtime Band
Film and TV genre developed in Japan ANIME
Former First Family, including daughters Malia and Sasha OBAMAS
French foodstuff whose shape is sometimes falsely claimed to celebrate a defeat of Arabic invaders of Europe CROISSANT
Hesiod and Pindar came from this ancient Greek province BOEOTIA
High up ALOFT
In a ____Garden is one of Albert Ketèlby’s most popular compositions MONASTERY
In English usage, the long syllable in a metrical foot in poetry ARSIS
Lancashire new town designated in 1961 to house overspill population from north Merseyside skelmersdale
Clues Answers
Linked fetters binding a prisoner’s wrists or ankles SHACKLE
Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947 Khyber Pass
Palace which became a museum in the French Revolution LOUVRE
Part of Scotland known in Gaelic as Na h-Eileanan Siar outer hebrides
Piece of baggage comprising two equal-sized compartments hinged together gladstone bag
Powder from ___ beans is used as a substitute for chocolate CAROB
Radio comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, born Charles Olden Ted Ray
Sailing craft competing in events like the America’s Cup Racing yacht
Samuel Pepys’s ending for some of his diary entries And so to bed
Satirical magazine whose offices in Paris were attacked by two Islamist gunmen in 2015 Charlie Hebdo
Sets of island shelving in self-service stores GONDOLAS
Since June 28, the host of Countdown on Channel 4 Anne Robinson
The Bletchley Park codebreaker on the new £50 note Alan Turing
The primary orbital vehicle being developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company STARSHIP
The third brightest star in the sky, visible only from the southern hemisphere alpha centauri
The ____ was a jazz-influenced secular cantata by Constant Lambert, first performed in 1927 Rio Grande
Type of brandy produced in Gascony ARMAGNAC
Until 1974, senior county council members, elected by other councillors ALDERMEN
Vauxhall car which replaced the Wyvern model in 1957 VICTOR
Where Gray probably heard the “knell of parting day” Stoke Poges
Without harm, loss or penalty scot free
____ or grockle, Cornish dialect name for a holidaymaker EMMET