The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 307

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Clues Answers
“And don’t ____ on the pâté” (Mr Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life) SKIMP
“It is as certain as it is marvellous that truth and ____ come from one source” (Goethe) ERROR
“This other ____, demi-paradise” (Shakespeare, Richard II) EDEN
1805 battle, often considered Napoleon’s greatest victory AUSTERLITZ
20 quires of paper REAM
A small fly resembling a mosquito GNAT
A very short skirt micro-mini
Actress, dancer and singer, featured in We’re in the Money in Gold Diggers of 1933 Ginger Rogers
An old name for a common seal sea calf
An old term for the end of a rugby match no side
Another name for a pool shark HUSTLER
BeeGees song which has been used in CPR training Stayin' Alive
Brazil’s ____ National Park is in the Tapajos River watershed AMAZONIA
British sitcom which featured flatmates Gary Strang and Tony Smart Men Behaving Badly
By area, the smallest US state Rhode Island
Character played by Eric Mabius in the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty Daniel Meade
Charles “Lucky” ____ replaced the “capo dei capi” American mafia leader with a governing body, “the Commission” LUCIANO
City at the eastern end of the Gower peninsula SWANSEA
Collides with a vehicle in front rear-ends
Comic strip character ____ Race plays for Melchester Rovers ROY
Condition also called work-related upper limb disorder rsi
Considerable no little
Diet, exercise or treatment plan REGIMEN
Elgar’s song cycle Sea Pictures was composed for this English contralto with a powerful voice Clara Butt
Fleetwood Mac singer who wrote the Rumours song Dreams Stevie Nicks
Clues Answers
Helium nucleus emitted by unstable isotopes alpha particle
Hermann Buhl reached the summit of ____ in 1953, in the only solo first ascent of an 8000-metre peak Nanga Parbat
In some versions of draughts, to remove an opponent’s piece as a penalty for failing to capture with it HUFF
Insurance professional, sometimes called “a cross between a bookie and an undertaker” ACTUARY
Interstellar clouds NEBULAE
Legal term for a sum paid by a new tenant for remaining fixtures INGOING
On a fully-rigged tall ship, the ____ staysail is positioned behind three jibs foretopmast
Original name of the quiz show now hosted by Paddy McGuinness A Question of Sport
Parisian cabaret venue on Boulevard de Clichy Moulin Rouge
Poet described by Lady Caroline Lamb as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” lord byron
Popular name of the church at the highest point of Paris Sacre-Coeur
River flowing from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean St Lawrence
Scientific study of the body’s defence mechanisms IMMUNOLOGY
Tanzania’s largest city Dar es Salaam
The one-word anagram of MOBILISES OMISSIBLE
The policing agency which became Soca in 2006 NCIS
The tallith worn by male orthodox Jews is a type of ____ prayer shawl
This poem’s rhyme scheme may be AAAA, ABAB or ABBA QUATRAIN
To amicably accept opposing opinions agree to differ
To travel aerially, towed like a waterskier PARASAIL
Type of jug once often combined with a bowl in bedrooms EWER
Vesta and Pallas are among the solar system’s largest ____s ASTEROID
Wild cat also called ounce snow leopard
____ is a peninsula between the Black Sea and Sea of Azov CRIMEA
____ was, according to Tolstoy, his first true novel Anna Karenina