The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 319

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Clues Answers
“The wife, where danger or ____ lurks, / Safest and seemliest by her husband stays” (Paradise Lost) DISHONOUR
“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is ____” (Bertolt Brecht) subjugated
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open ____ and die.” (Mel Brooks) SEWER
A continuous discharge of firearms FUSILLADE
A decree, from Latin for “let it be done” FIAT
A policeman or police force, from a PC created by Enid Blyton PLOD
A wine connoisseur OENOPHILE
Actress best known for her role as Demelza in the costume drama Poldark Angharad Rees
Actress who first appeared as Sharon Watts in EastEnders in 1985 Letitia Dean
Artist who designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo salvador dali
As food, the stomach lining of a cow or other ruminant TRIPE
Ascorbic acid is the main cure for this disease SCURVY
Breed of horse often used in dressage and show jumping WESTPHALIAN
Capital of Italy’s Umbria region PERUGIA
Church festival celebrated on January 6 EPIPHANY
Device which amplifies microwaves MASER
Forerunners of electric refrigerators ICEBOXES
Iceland’s “ring road”, Route 1, was partly ____ until 2019 UNPAVED
In binomial nomenclature, “sempervirens” denotes ____ plants EVERGREEN
In Bleak House, ____ secretly marries Richard Carstone Ada Clare
In camping, ____ are supported by poles or frames at each end ridge tents
London district reached by a southern extension of the Docklands Light Railway in 1999 LEWISHAM
Monument at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle arc de triomphe
Not subjected to hindrance UNIMPEDED
Clues Answers
Of a court case, rejected DISMISSED
Old name for a painter of portraits or miniatures LIMNER
Prime minister of Canada, 1968-79 and 1980-84 Pierre Trudeau
Racing driver who took over the French Ligier team in 1997 Alain Prost
Rome’s Trevi Fountain was turned off and draped in black after the death of this actor in 1996 Marcello Mastroianni
Salad greens related to chicory ENDIVES
Sci-fi author who created the minisaga, a story of just 50 words Brian Aldiss
Scottish singer-songwriter who fronted new wave band the Tourists Annie Lennox
Singer who made her film acting debut in The Bodyguard Whitney Houston
Sitcom which was a sequel to Till Death Us Do Part In Sickness and in Health
The BBC’s chief news correspondent, 1989-2003 Kate Adie
The bobcat is a type of ____ LYNX
The imprisoned banker in The Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne
The inner peel of a citrus fruit PITH
The structure which houses Big Ben Elizabeth Tower
The USA’s second largest state TEXAS
Tony ____ was Spandau Ballet’s lead singer HADLEY
Tool typically used to fix or remove spark plugs box spanner
Umbrian city whose cathedral has a west front designed by Lorenzo Maitani ORVIETO
Upper arm bones HUMERI
VW model named after a wind from North Africa SCIROCCO
What absolute power does absolutely, according to Lord Acton CORRUPTS
What Caesar reportedly said after his Pontic campaign veni vidi vici
____, Sweet Charlotte (1964) featured Mary Astor in her final film role Hush Hush