The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 339

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“Everybody knew who I was, and nobody knew what I ____” (Colin Wilson, on the success of his first book, The Outsider) stood for
1970s sitcom in which Beryl refused to give in to Geoffrey’s desire for “Percy Filth” The Lovers
A beau ____ is a perfect model IDEAL
A company travelling across a desert CARAVAN
A cord or belt, especially around a cleric’s waist CINCTURE
A frame around a window frame or door panel SASH
An illusion in which a stationary object seems to move autokinesis
Arabic for “book”, often used as a term for a sacred book kitab
Author whose novel Patriot Games introduced the character Jack Ryan Tom Clancy
Church official who acts as a caretaker and attendant VERGER
City in the Ruhr, home to the Zollverein coal mine, now part of a Unesco world heritage site ESSEN
Coarse bobbin lace with geometrical designs TORCHON
Content of a spirit lamp? GENIE
Crust present during a healing process SCAB
French writer Nicolas Chamfort’s description of chance a nickname of providence
Fruit consumers visited by Odysseus and his crew after they were blown off course LOTOPHAGI
Great Britain’s first female gymnast to win medals at the European and World Championships and the Olympic Games Beth Tweddle
Heckled; given military accommodation BARRACKED
In a manner showing annoyance irritatedly
In Greek myth, a Calydonian king closely associated with wine OENEUS
In ____ script, letters are joined rather than separate CURSIVE
ITV sitcom starring David Jason as Peter Barnes A Sharp Intake of Breath
Kristen Visbal’s bronze statue near the New York Stock Exchange, originally placed to face down the nearby Charging Bull Fearless Girl
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Model and actress thought to be the “Uptown Girl” of the Billy Joel single Christie Brinkley
Moorland plant named after the founder of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg, Co Donegal St Dabeoc's heath
Noël Coward song first sung by Beatrice Lillie in 1931 Mad Dogs and Englishmen
On a square-rigged ship, a horizontal spar forward of the prow spritsail-yard
One who aids a criminal following an offence accessory after the fact
Onions, leeks and garlic belong to this genus ALLIUM
Only one ____ founded the publishing firm ____ and ____ FABER
Possession of a controlling influence powerfulness
Speaker of the language devised by Ludwig Zamenhof ESPERANTIST
Supermarket chain founded by the Albrecht brothers ALDI
The “King of the High Cs” Luciano Pavarotti
The capital of India new delhi
The first English football club to have foreign ownership Tranmere Rovers
The Gulf of ____ is connected to the Persian Gulf by the Strait of Hormuz OMAN
The Irish equivalent of usury gombeen
The native grey and the naturalised red-legged are Britain’s only types of this bird PARTRIDGE
Thomas ____ was a Cavalier poet favoured by Charles I CAREW
Thor Heyerdahl’s raft Kon-Tiki
Very disappointed — a phrase associated with football sick as a parrot
Waxbill widely kept as a cage bird (one of various names derived from the city in eastern India from which they were originally supplied) AMADAVAT
Words that ____ had corresponding vowel sounds assonated
____ Mountbatten-Windsor is currently sixth in the line of succession to the British throne ARCHIE
____ the End of the Morning is a 1967 Michael Frayn novel about newspaper staff working on crosswords and other miscellaneous content TOWARDS