The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 314

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Clues Answers
“… and for the first time glancing behind, ____, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf” (Jane Eyre) on each side
“My good friends, I’ll leave you till night. You are welcome to ____” (Hamlet) ELSINORE
“None among us is superman enough to ____ kitsch completely” (Milan Kundera) ESCAPE
“There was a bit of a ____ last night, yes? Some very extreme ____, yes?” (Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange (film)) NASTINESS
“Whene’er with haggard eyes I view / This dungeon that I’m ____ in, I think of those companions true” (George Canning) ROTTING
1964 Beatles hit with one of the earliest pop studio recording uses of a fade-in Eight Days a Week
A blank shot from this cruiser signalled the attack on the Winter Palace which started Russia’s October Revolution AURORA
A British alternative name for an avalanche snow slip
A spiny globular echinoderm sea urchin
A two-syllable foot in poetry IAMB
A usually unsustainable happy or picturesque situation IDYLL
Actress who played Annie Sugden in Emmerdale (Farm) Sheila Mercier
An example of stylish excellence class act
An unfinished or mutilated work of art TORSO
Another name for Polaris LODESTAR
Archipelago close to the equator, mostly part of Kiribati Line Islands
Body of water crossed by a Fishguard to Rosslare ferry St George's Channel
Channel through which molten metal flows into a mould SPRUE
Current manager of the Italian national football team Roberto Mancini
Dining accessory first named by Edward Lear runcible spoon
Fedora-wearing Malcolm ____ was a well-known manager of Crystal Palace despite two successive relegations ALLISON
Find oneself unable to make further progress hit a brick wall
Gospel author who wrote another New Testament book LUKE
Ingenuousness, lack of sophistication NAIVETY
Legendary everlasting flower growing in Elysian fields ASPHODEL
Clues Answers
Long-distance travel firm founded by Elon Musk in 2002 SPACEX
Male epitomes for a particular cause poster boys
Nickname for Arnold Schwarzenegger as a successor of Ronald Reagan The Governator
Of work, shared between people in a recurring order ROTATED
Painter of the Clothed Maja and Naked Maja GOYA
Prince Hamlet’s final words in the Shakespeare play The rest is silence
Profession of Abelard’s lover Héloïse ABBESS
Relating to a major African river NILOTIC
Relating to one of ancient Greece’s two greatest philosophers ARISTOTELIAN
Rival of Oasis in the “Battle of Britpop” around 1995 BLUR
Small Asian and Australasian bird that builds edible nests SWIFTLET
Surrey town which is home to the comedy character Ali G STAINES
Tack items which are also bones of the ear STIRRUPS
That which is greater than the sum of its parts GESTALT
The equivalent of Pan in Roman mythology SILVANUS
The oldest of Dumas’s three musketeers ATHOS
The usual Italian equivalent of Mr SIGNOR
Those described by around a third of the original Highway Code in 1931 hand signals
Tirana is the capital of this republic ALBANIA
Torquato ____ wrote the poem Jerusalem Delivered TASSO
Trademark for a fastener inspired by an outdoor experience with burdock VELCRO
Type of pension earned by those paying full National Insurance contributions, 1978-2002 Serps
____ had a Christmas No 1 single with Mary’s Boy Child in 1957 Harry Belafonte
____ played Ronald Merrick in The Jewel in the Crown Tim Pigott-Smith
____’s best-known book was the 1933 memoir Testament of Youth Vera Brittain