The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 289

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Clues Answers
“Just ____ at that news and congratulate our forces” (Margaret Thatcher on the recapture of Sough Georgia in 1982) REJOICE
“The pathetic ____” is John Ruskin’s term for the attribution of human conduct or emotions to non-human things FALLACY
’Ullo John! Gotta New ____? was Alexei Sayle’s 1984 top 20 hit MOTOR
1979 UK No 1 Bee Gees song TRAGEDY
A medicine thought to be fraudulent NOSTRUM
A military canteen or the organisation running it NAAFI
A ____ lets a horse tow continuously when a towpath crosses a canal roving bridge
American star of 1950s and 1960s sitcoms with a version of her forename in the title Lucille Ball
Answer to “Often found in the bottom of bird cages”, the last clue in a Two Ronnies sketch about crossword solving GRIT
Channel excavated for a railway or canal CUT
Circuit used in arithmetic logic units in computers ADDER
Coach of 1924 Olympic 100m winner Harold Abrahams Sam Mussabini
Composer of six Paris and twelve London symphonies HAYDN
Displeasure, or archaically, a shadow UMBRAGE
Effect seen during solar eclipses, caused by the rugged topography of the moon’s surface Baily's beads
Expert on bushcraft and survival, first seen on BBC television in 1994 Ray Mears
Freehand representation used in school geography sketch map
German name for a late harvest wine, often sweet AUSLESE
Glenn Miller’s signature tune; a theme in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl moonlight serenade
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the lover of Hermia LYSANDER
In Italy, these might be dipped into coffee BISCOTTI
In old style paper sizes, ____ was 20 inches by 25 ROYAL
In ship-building, the opposite of “hog” as a way for a hull to be stressed by its position relative to waves SAG
In zoology, something ____ lives in tiny spaces interstitial
Literary name for grassy ground GREENSWARD
Clues Answers
London estate on the site of a former fortified gateway BARBICAN
Low-budget Ford car, introduced in 1953 POPULAR
Maker of sewing equipment; someone annoying NEEDLER
Muse clued as “Rhetorical ninth” and described by Beryl Reid as “hardly worth putting in” in her assistance to bowler-hatted Times Crossword solvers in a 1968 sketch POLYHYMNIA
Museum whose current building replaced the King’s Mews in London’s Charing Cross district national gallery
New York Yankees player who married Marilyn Monroe Joe DiMaggio
Of a voter, to withdraw allegiance to a party dealign
One millimetre is ten million ____s angstrom unit
Pointer first bred in Germany, with a silvery-grey coat WEIMARANER
Portuguese explorer, one of whose ships was the first to circumnavigate the globe Ferdinand Magellan
Schubert’s ____ sonata was written for this instrument like a bowed guitar ARPEGGIONE
Sitcom with Ronnie Corbett as a man living with his parents SORRY
Soprano showpiece aria in Bernstein’s Candide Glitter and be Gay
Substance used to cause or confirm a chemical reaction REAGENT
Technical name for your eardrum TYMPANUM
The captain of the Pequod in Moby-Dick AHAB
The clown makeup style originated by Joseph Grimaldi whiteface
To ____ one’s chin is to behave very aggressively lead with
Torturer of Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four O'Brien
Type of engine which propelled the V-1 flying bomb pulse jet
Vehicle used in a winter “sitting down” sport ski-bob
Warned of (something, typically unwelcome) PRESAGED
____ Hall opened as a Manchester concert venue in 1996 bridgewater
____’s husband called her “the world’s most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does” yoko ono