The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 297

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“I ask myself, again and again: was there an alternative to the indiscriminate, brutal, basically ____ rush forward of the Five-Year Plan?” (Eric Hobsbawm) UNPLANNED
“If I go to him, with my ____ fist / I’ll pash him o’er the face” (Troilus and Cressida) ARMED
“It is much more high and philosophical to discover things ____ than a posteriori” (Robert Boyle) a priori
“Lie thou there, for here comes the ____ that must be caught with tickling” (Twelfth Night) TROUT
“Lousy but ____” (East End banner for George V’s Jubilee) LOYAL
1920 novel which made Edith Wharton the first female winner of the Pulitzer prize for literature The Age of Innocence
1985 sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
A series of downloadable digital audio files PODCAST
A three-sided box on a long handle HOD
Actor whose last TV role was as Agrippa in Spartacus Alan Bates
Aerobatic manoeuvre resulting in level flight at higher altitude in the opposite direction Immelmann turn
An ingredient, with beans, of succotash SWEETCORN
Any bird of the order Strigiformes OWL
As Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O’Brien wrote the ____ Lawn column in the Irish Times, 1940-66 cruiskeen
Australian artist noted for his paintings of outlaw Ned Kelly Sidney Nolan
Blake ____ directed most of the Pink Panther films EDWARDS
Body of water on which Anchorage lies Cook Inlet
British winner of three Olympic dressage gold medals Charlotte Dujardin
Christmas NATIVITY
Co-writer and performer of the 1964 hit Oh, Pretty Woman Roy Orbison
Covered in liquid ASWIM
Despite its name, a peninsula north of Inverness Black Isle
Food flavouring used as a scent in drag hunting ANISEED
Footballer nicknamed El Pibe de Oro (The Golden Boy) Diego Maradona
In 2016, Bradley ____ won the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles by defeating Sam Eggington skeete
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In a 1953 Mervyn Peake novel, Mr ___ goes to Sark to preach PYE
In Greek myth, the nymph spurned by Narcissus ECHO
In mathematics, {} can represent the empty ____ SET
In outdated informal speech, excessive or unfair a bit thick
In poetry, having a stressed syllable after an unstressed one IAMBIC
Inside the Statue of Liberty’s base is an inscription that includes “Send these, the homeless, ____ to me” tempest-tossed
Lake District peak north of Derwentwater SKIDDAW
Last novel in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy Titus Alone
Looped cross symbol of ancient Egypt ANKH
Motorsport venue which features Indy Circuit and Grand Prix layouts Brands Hatch
Passerine bird of the Dicruridae family; a foolish person DRONGO
Rope-soled light canvas shoes ESPADRILLES
Satirist and cricket fan who co-founded Private Eye Willie Rushton
Soviet physicist who won the 1975 Nobel peace prize Andrei Sakharov
Spanish explorer, the first documented European to cross the Mississippi River Hernando de Soto
Surname of the minister for women and youth appointed by Helmut Kohl in 1991 MERKEL
The postponed next World Cross Country Championships are due to take place in February 2023 on the infield of this Australian city’s Mount Panorama motor racing circuit BATHURST
To officially cancel RESCIND
Welsh seaside resort with the UK’s longest cable car ride LLANDUDNO
Winston ____’s best-known novels were the Poldark series GRAHAM
Working with Lise Meitner, ____ coined the term nuclear fission Otto Frisch
Writer and presenter of Letter from America Alistair Cooke
____ pinnata has been Mexico’s national flower since 1963 DAHLIA
____ played Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again Kim Basinger
____ played the painter Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl Eddie Redmayne