The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 336

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Clues Answers
“Everybody’s Free (To Wear ____)” (1997 spoken word song by Baz Luhrmann, quoting Mary Schmich) SUNSCREEN
“I am of course notoriously hooked on ____. I keep hoping the things will kill me” (Kurt Vonnegut) CIGARETTES
“If a topic makes you […] laugh, or sigh, or ____ — or react physically in any way — you have a winner” (Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist) RETCH
“In recent years we have been served up a lot of ____ about the need for a national identity. We have been urged to sing imbecile jingles …” (Patrick White) CLAPTRAP
“Liberal my views upon religion and race; / Tax-posture, credit-rating, social ambition / ____ with me.” (WH Auden) cut no ice
“No admittance. Not even ____ personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.” (Douglas Adams) AUTHORISED
“O may I join the ____ invisible.” (George Eliot) CHOIR
“Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, / ____ thy charge?” (Shakespeare) eat up
1983 cross-dressing Barbra Streisand film YENTL
A British soldier in 1776 or a camp entertainer? REDCOAT
A weather-affecting warming of the Pacific Ocean el nino
Actress whose younger brother is Warren Beatty Shirley MacLaine
African capital founded as a settlement for liberated slaves FREETOWN
American stand-up comedian who has starred in a sitcom and talk show with their forename in the title Roseanne Barr
Authority responsible for lightship maintenance Trinity House
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park is the current ____ Lord Privy Seal
Body parts which normally become visible after age 17 wisdom teeth
Dish of toast with a cheese-based sauce Welsh rarebit
Dog breed originally used to ?“flush” game from cover springer spaniel
Emanuel ____ was world chess champion for 27 years LASKER
Fairy tale woodcutter’s daughter who kills a witch GRETEL
Film in which Marlon Brando plays Sky Masterson Guys And Dolls
Form of football invented at a public school eton wall game
Clues Answers
Former patent clerk who won a 1921 Nobel prize Albert Einstein
French for “dish of the day” plat du jour
In biology, having multiple small branches ramulose
Independent US government agency founded in 1958 chiefly as a response to the launch of Sputnik NASA
Kill Devil Hills and Cape Hatteras are in this US state North Carolina
Man-eater nicknamed “the wastebasket of the sea” tiger shark
Milled durum wheat product used to make polenta SEMOLINA
Norman ____ is an archenemy of Spider-Man OSBORN
One word for making someone a member of the clergy ordainment
Politician who claimed the naughtiest thing she’d done was to run through fields of wheat as a child Theresa May
Positions associated with comfort, action or panic STATIONS
Primary goddess of Babylonians and Assyrians ISHTAR
Primo Levi novel first published in 1982 as Se non ora, quando? If Not Now When
Satellite used in the first transatlantic broadcast TELSTAR
Sobriquet shared by a duchess and an ex-football manager FERGIE
Song which won the inaugural (and last) Grammy award for the best disco recording in 1980 I Will Survive
Statuettes designed by art director Cedric Gibbons OSCARS
The 1957 Panorama news report on the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland’s Ticino canton was an example of this april fool
The ____ gained fame by travelling 120 feet in 12 seconds at Kill Devil Hills in 1903 Wright Brothers
White fur traditionally worn in the House of Lords ERMINE
Wikipedia’s name for an article too short to provide encyclopaedic coverage STUB
Yorkshire playwright who wrote Talking Heads Alan Bennett
Zayn Malik left this X-Factor-created boyband in 2015 One Direction