The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 288

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“I see these witches are ____ of swords” (Comedy of Errors) AFRAID
“Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be ____ equally” (As You Like It) BESTOWED
“We’d both been to the country and found it disappointingly ____” (Julian Barnes, in Metroland) EMPTY
1970s ITV drama set in the fictional HMP Stone Park Within These Walls
A Catholic service not corresponding to the Divine Office for the day on which it is celebrated votive Mass
A notably impressive example of something (US colloquial) DOOZY
Actress who won an Oscar and Golden Globe for her role in the 1995 Woody Allen film Mighty Aphrodite Mira Sorvino
Aircraft designer who created the Supermarine Spitfire R J Mitchell
Alternative name for a goitre STRUMA
American inventor of the cotton gin Eli Whitney
An irrational optimist, from a novel by Eleanor H Porter POLLYANNA
Bach choral work in which the alto soloist represents Mary Magdalene Easter Oratorio
Body of water in which the Isle of Bute lies Firth of Clyde
By Pharrell Williams, the most successful song of 2014 worldwide HAPPY
Charon is the ____ of Hades FERRYMAN
Difficult or laboured breathing dyspnoea
Especially in 16th-century Lutheranism, religious practices seen as neither commanded nor forbidden adiaphora
Former Destiny’s Child singer whose stage roles include the lead in the 2003 Elton John and Tim Rice musical Aida Michelle Williams
George Eliot novel about a man driven out of a religious community by a false accusation of theft Silas Marner
Haircut One Hundred’s follow-up to their 1981 debut single Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Love Plus One
Ian Rankin’s 1986 debut novel The Flood
Ibsen play which ends with the sound of a closing door A Doll's House
In America a satnav is typically called this GPS
Magdeburg is the third-largest city on this river ELBE
Clues Answers
Manager of the England football team 2012-2016 Roy Hodgson
Oil company which merged with Chevron in 2001 TEXACO
One suffering anaphylactic shock may use this to self-inject adrenaline EPIPEN
Operetta composer Franz ____’s best-known song is Dein ist mein ganzes Herz LEHAR
Ornamental chalcedony with banded appearance AGATE
Part of a fictional work which unravels its plot DENOUEMENT
Permission to take time off work LEAVE
Singer ____ was known as the Queen of Jazz Ella Fitzgerald
Sleeveless coat often worn by Sherlock Holmes in films INVERNESS
Substance which promotes a chemical reaction without undergoing permanent chemical change CATALYST
Suite by Gustav Holst ending with a choral diminuendo assisted by a silently closed door The Planets
Take an action which may increase risk or conflict up the ante
Texas city, capital of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande in 1840 LAREDO
The British Museum’s Duveen Gallery contains the ____ elgin marbles
The concluding part of a speech PERORATION
The debut album of One Direction Up All Night
The largest city in Germany’s Ruhr conurbation DORTMUND
The standard number of strokes for a hole or course in golf PAR
The width of this punctuation mark is its font size em dash
Third film in which Pierce Brosnan plays Bond The World Is Not Enough
Welsh courtier and grandfather of Henry VII Owen Tudor
____ is a spin-off from and anagram of a BBC TV series TORCHWOOD
____ played Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV Sarah Michelle Gellar
____ Strate was the sidekick of Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane in The Dukes of Hazzard ENOS