The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 295

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“Methought I was ____ of an ass” (Shakespeare’s Titania) ENAMOURED
1987 Percy Aldon film, released in Germany as Out of Rosenheim Bagdad Cafe
A decorative flourish in calligraphy CURLICUE
A fairly cheap Italian restaurant OSTERIA
A horse or rider in a race over hurdles STEEPLECHASER
A piece of equipment: more specifically, a fire engine APPLIANCE
Actress who played “Hot Lips” in MASH on TV Loretta Swit
Alloy of nickel and titanium, which has shape memory NITINOL
Apparatus used to maintain a constant low temperature Cryostat
Author of the 1966 essay collection Against Interpretation Susan Sontag
Britain’s smallest falcon MERLIN
Departing from a place or subject wandering off
Description not currently applying to many deciduous trees in Britain in leaf
Forename of Channel 5’s newest Egghead, who writes quizzes for The Times OLAV
Former Norwegian prime minister, director-general of the World Health Organisation, 1998-2003 Gro Harlem Brundtland
Founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in 1951 Ian Paisley
Greek writer of Parallel Lives PLUTARCH
In 1953, ____ became the third player to win all four golf majors Ben Hogan
In ballet, a leap in which an outstretched leg is struck by the other CABRIOLE
In optics, having threads or wires FILAR
In South Africa, the opposite of verkrampte, especially concerning apartheid verligte
In the UK, a road with a severe penalty for stopping red route
Jocular local name for native of Hobart or Launceston taswegian
Konrad ____ shared a 1973 Nobel prize for his work on animal behaviour LORENZ
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Literary assistant who takes dictation or copies manuscript AMANUENSIS
Military expedition advancing to a territory’s interior, notably by Xenophon in Asia Minor ANABASIS
Nickname currently on new Alaskan license plates Last Frontier
Pertaining to the killing of a king REGICIDAL
Peter ____ predicted the existence of the boson named after him HIGGS
Powder which can be made from cassava, chestnuts or chickpeas FLOUR
Pyracantha FIRETHORN
Rapper who goes by the name of P Diddy Sean Combs
Rugby union international whose tally of 38 tries for France remains a record Serge Blanco
Shakespeare’s play with the tinker Christopher Sly The Taming of the Shrew
Smetana’s set of six tone poems, also “My Fatherland” Ma Vlast
Text put on new manhole covers in the Mussolini regime SPQR
The anvil of the ear INCUS
The English equivalent of quatre-vingt-dix NINETY
The opposite of what a martinet would be LENIENT
The puffin, in Scotland Tammie Norie
The satanic nations mentioned in Revelation 20 Gog and Magog
The ____ of most 1990s computer monitors was 4:3 aspect ratio
To appear after a long spell of invisibility RESURFACE
TV presenter duo with surnames McPartlin and Donnelly Ant and Dec
Usually bicoloured confection, made from grated palm fruit and sugar syrup coconut ice
____ elatior was a popular house plant in late Victorian Britain ASPIDISTRA
____ had a UK No 1 hit with Crazy in 2006 Gnarls Barkley
____ painted Women Ironing and L’Absinthe edgar degas