The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 325

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“He play’d an ancient ditty ____ mute, / In Provence call’d, ‘La belle dame sans merci’” (Keats) long since
“The main ____ of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history” (Harold Wilson) ESSENTIALS
“You’ve had a cream of a ____ dream” (Sweeney Agonistes, TS Eliot) NIGHTMARE
A dictator or despot absolute ruler
A malicious written or verbal attack hatchet job
A shrimp, crab or lobster DECAPOD
A structure protecting plants; informally, a military prison GLASSHOUSE
A symptom of this hereditary disease is difficulty in absorbing nutrients from food cystic fibrosis
An important contest in cycling or horse racing CLASSIC
Austrian-born winner of the 1945 Nobel physics prize for his exclusion principle Wolfgang Pauli
Author whose best-known character first appeared in an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995 Helen Fielding
Boise is the capital of this US state IDAHO
Central character of Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel of 1748 Clarissa Harlowe
County in which many Hardy novels are set DORSET
English actress remembered for her husky voice and double entendres Fenella Fielding
English spelling of a name for soccer teams in Bucharest, Tirana and Zagreb DYNAMO
Equipment on which engines etc are trialled before production test bed
First sequel to a novel about a red-haired Canadian girl Anne of Avonlea
French stew, usually of beef, with wine and herbs DAUBE
German group who had a 1984 hit with Big in Japan alphaville
Great Britain or England, in Australian and NZ slang Old Dart
Holder of the female 100m and 200m British records Dina Asher-Smith
In a fugue, a section with overlapping contrapuntal voices STRETTO
In Greek mythology, the brother of Electra ORESTES
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In IT, a set of rules about a type of data, such as the presence of a grid and clues in a file representing a crossword SCHEMA
Informally, a portable music source that preceded the Walkman and iPod TRANNIE
Informally, in the US, to achieve profitable success hit pay dirt
Iron-tipped spear used historically in southern Africa ASSEGAI
Italian baritone who sang as Scarpia in many Tosca performances with Maria Callas Tito Gobbi
Mainly North American name for a notebook scratch pad
Musical genre popularised by Saturday Night Fever DISCO
Mystery thriller film set in swinging Sixties London, winner of the 1967 Palme d’Or at Cannes blow-up
Palma is the capital of this archipelago Balearic Islands
Perchance UNINTENTIONALLY
Poetic repetition of sounds, as used in Poe’s “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” ASSONANCE
Possible result of (UK) annual inflation over 9 per cent pay rise
Roger Moore’s first James Bond film Live and Let Die
State whose capital, Salvador, was Brazil’s first capital city BAHIA
Stopping of parliamentary activity without dissolution prorogation
The earliest known printing of this US slang term for “excellent” was in 1951 NEATO
The little ____ is an aquatic bird also called “dabchick” GREBE
The only character seen in all of CS Lewis’s Narnia books ASLAN
The second of David Bowie’s “Berlin Trilogy” albums HEROES
The Smiths and the “Madchester” scene both influenced this musical genre BRITPOP
To verbally intimidate an opponent in cricket SLEDGE
Toto’s debut single of 1978 Hold the Line
Where to see Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Museo del Prado
World ____ are events showcasing national achievements, held quinquennially since 2000 EXPOS