The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 291

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Clues Answers
“And don’t call me ____” ends some famous dialogue in Airplane! SHIRLEY
“But the idling of our ____ is called business” (Augustine, Confessions) ELDERS
“To be weak is miserable, ____” (Paradise Lost) Doing or suffering
“We love him [or her] ____” is often followed by “but” DEARLY
1979 album and single by Fleetwood Mac TUSK
A business with a network TELCO
A light and clear red colour CERISE
A northern English name for a ravine CLOUGH
Abertawe SWANSEA
Actor famously seen hanging from a clock in the 1923 film Safety Last! Harold Lloyd
Actress who played Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day Halle Berry
American singer who became Instagram’s most followed musician in 2019 Ariana Grande
An image of a god IDOL
Author of the 1960 novel Ring of Bright Water Gavin Maxwell
Brightest star of the Aquila constellation ALTAIR
City of London ward, formerly the home of a fish market BILLINGSGATE
Colloquially, vehicles which use a lot of fuel gas guzzlers
Drops of Jupiter (____) was a 2001 hit single by Train Tell Me
English thriller writer, at least 30 of whose books have so far been made into films James Hadley Chase
First male tennis player to appear in 19 grand-slam finals Ivan Lendl
French military decoration created in 1915 Croix de Guerre
Gaby ____ was a presenter of BBC Children in Need, 1995-2004 roslin
Groups of shackled convicts working outside prison chain gangs
Historical region, now home to about 60 per cent of Czechs BOHEMIA
Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn starred in the 1951 film The ____ African Queen
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In an anglicised spelling, a weapon of the Jedi knights in the Star Wars films lightsabre
In Dad’s Army, Pike was sometimes “____ Mr Mainwaring” all wet
Italian almond macaroons AMARETTI
Italian rice which is said to produce a creamier risotto than arborio carnaroli
Italian-born cardinal Jules ____ was France’s first minister of state, 1642-61 MAZARIN
Julian and Sandy spoke Polari in ____ on 1960s radio Round the Horne
Makes slightly sour ACIDULATES
Member of Portugal’s Euro 2012 team; an anagram of his team captain’s surname rolando
Musical mistakenly announced as the best picture of 2016 at an Oscars ceremony la-la land
Nouméa is the capital of this French overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean New Caledonia
One of Patrick ____’s detective roles was DS Steve Hackett in Target, a BBC attempt to outdo The Sweeney MOWER
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club is in this area of London SOHO
The hyrax of South Africa DASSIE
The Jewish festivals of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana High Holidays
The River Teifi’s ____ Falls are its first significant barrier for salmon heading upstream to spawn CENARTH
The Taj Mahal is in this city AGRA
The terminal structure of an axon nerve ending
The ____ is anachronistically included in a list of musical instruments in the King James Bible’s book of Daniel SACKBUT
The ____ is between the gradually separating African and Arabian tectonic plates Red Sea Rift
The ____ pippin is an eating apple first grown in Essex STURMER
The ____ produces a fruit sometimes called Chinese date jujube tree
Vitamin-rich cereal extract, often added to foods WHEATGERM
____ is the use of data by businesses to describe, predict, and improve their performance ANALYTICS
____ played Lydia Deetz in the 1988 film Beetlejuice Winona Ryder
____’s disease is an earlier name for nephritis BRIGHT