The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 316

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“Ha, ha! Give me to drink ____” (Antony and Cleopatra) MANDRAGORA
“I am at a stage in my life […] where I am completely ____ to what I am as a writer” (John le Carré) RECONCILED
“No ____, no breath, shall testify thou livest” (Romeo and Juliet) WARMTH
“Painting isn’t an ____ operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us” (Picasso) AESTHETIC
1960 Everly Brothers single, their first for Warner Brothers Cathy's Clown
1976 comedic novel by Tom Sharpe WILT
1992 legal drama film based on a 1989 Aaron Sorkin play A Few Good Men
1992 Robin Williams film with Jamie Foxx in his film debut TOYS
A kind of scheme that may be associated with space, training, or research PROGRAMME
Archaically, a week an eight days
Aunt Lucy is one of this fictional character’s few known relatives paddington bear
Australian host of the comedy talk show The Last Leg Adam Hills
Boxer Tyson Fury currently lives in this northern seaside town MORECAMBE
Catlike relative of the civet GENET
Cheshire motor racing circuit, home of the F1 non-championship International Gold Cup event in the 1950s and 1960s Oulton Park
Colloquially, suffered humiliation ate dirt
Composer of the operas Wozzeck and Lulu Alban Berg
Detention centre “treatment” promised as a future government action by William Whitelaw in 1977 short sharp shock
Diacritic mark which is part of its own name in Czech HACEK
European nation, 1992-2006, created and ended by the break-up of nations Serbia and Montenegro
Filled with shock or horror AGHAST
First lady of the United States, 1945-1953 Bess Truman
Form of exercise also called an abdominal bridge PLANK
Hampshire town known as the home of the British Army ALDERSHOT
Clues Answers
In Hinduism, the heaven presided over by Indra SWARGA
In old-fashioned informal speech, in disguise INCOG
Incapable of being relieved or mitigated unassuageable
Intensity of emotion; complexity of thought DEPTH
ITV series whose theme song was performed by lead actor Nick Berry HEARTBEAT
Like a mule or hinny INTERBRED
Mansion used as the basis for Lara Croft’s home in Tomb Raider films and video games Hatfield House
Of a rope, separated into individual strands (nautical) UNLAID
Online communication platform with a logo called Clyde DISCORD
Opened in 2001, the ____ Bridge is the world’s first tilting bridge Gateshead Millennium
Painful condition known technically as onychocryptosis ingrown toenail
Palindromic name of biblical prophet Samuel’s mother HANNAH
Pantomime character based on a medieval merchant Dick Whittington
Punk band founded and fronted by Dave Vanian The Damned
Rapid transport system situated around Spain’s Ibaizabal river Metro Bilbao
Rod Hull’s violent sidekick on 1970s and 1980s TV EMU
South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers OCA
The most popular scale used by British model railway enthusiasts OO gauge
The town missing from this list: Burslem, Hanley, Fenton, Longton, Tunstall Stoke-upon-Trent
Traditional Arabian long-sleeved hooded cloaks djellabas
Word for “child”, derived ultimately from Latin “unable to speak” INFANT
____ / Day Tripper was the first UK single with two A-sides We Can Work It Out
____ has the easternmost abbey on the Borders Abbeys Way KELSO
____, Oh Why was the B-side of Paul McCartney’s 1971 debut single as a solo artist Oh Woman