The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 293

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“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of ____” (Poor Richard’s Almanack) VINEGAR
“And thus it is that that men who rise well will often stand ____” (Henry Taylor on climbing the political slippery pole) infirmly
“Come, go we to the king. Our power is ____” (Macbeth) READY
1984 hit single by Russ Abbot ATMOSPHERE
A capital city in Wade-Giles rather than Pinyin romanisation PEKING
A flat-bottomed river craft used for cargo KEELBOAT
A high jump contest in show-jumping PUISSANCE
A nosepiece on a helmet NASAL
Actor who was Cissie Braithwaite alongside Les Dawson’s Ada Shufflebotham Roy Barraclough
Africa’s largest country ALGERIA
Another name for GMT Universal Time
Body of water at the eastern end of the Kiel Canal Baltic Sea
Boeing B-17 bomber used in the Second World War Flying Fortress
Co-founder, with Midge Ure, of Band Aid Bob Geldof
Collection of PG Wodehouse short stories in which Jeeves and Wooster first appear The Man with Two Left Feet
Computer routine or output which identifies problems DIAGNOSTIC
Daniel ____ formed an “SAS” partnership with Luis Suarez at Liverpool sturridge
Former independence activist Rajendra ____ became India’s first president in 1950 prasad
French term meaning “lake”, used especially for one formed by sand dunes blocking a river ETANG
German philosopher who influenced Marx and Engels HEGEL
Historic name for inhabitants of central and northern Asia TARTARS
In one spelling, an Arabian ruler or chieftain EMEER
Isle of Wight town with the world’s oldest pleasure pier RYDE
Japanese maple may be used in this form of horticulture BONSAI
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Mary ____ was the first British woman to win track and field Olympic gold, in 1964 RAND
Name associated with poetry, baseball and pigeons HOMER
Nembutal is a drug of this type BARBITURATE
One informal name for horripilation goose pimples
Passages in quicker time at the ends of pieces or movements STRETTI
Phoenician goddess identified with Aphrodite, Isis and others ASTARTE
Places where you can study trees or shrubs ARBORETA
Prevented from taking part in a game SIDELINED
Rotterdam soccer club whose home ground is known as De Kuip (the tub) FEYENOORD
Royal house of English kings from Henry II to Richard III PLANTAGENET
Secluded part of a garden, especially one belonging to a large house PLEASANCE
Singer, subject of the 2004 documentary ____: A Different Story George Michael
Site of a former nuclear generating station about ten miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Three Mile Island
Stage surname of Cyril Mead, comic partner of Edward McGinnis LITTLE
Surname shared by an American actor, English singer, and Formula One world champion STEWART
The “micronation” consisting of HM Fort Roughs, off the Essex coast Principality of Sealand
The meaning of “tref” or “trefa” non-kosher
The northern part of the Isle of ____ is surrounded by the southern part of the Cowal peninsula BUTE
The press is sometimes called the ____ Fourth Estate
The Spanish exhortation “Go with God” vaya con Dios
Theme and variations pieces for bagpipes PIBROCHS
____ musivum is mosaic work in enamel or coloured glass OPUS
____ played Patsy’s mother in Absolutely Fabulous Eleanor Bron
____ was Q in 17 James Bond films, 1963-99 Desmond Llewelyn