The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 341

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Actor who starred as Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford in two long-running TV series James Garner
Actor whose TV roles include Doyle and Judge John Deed Martin Shaw
Author whose only novel is one of the first to be written from the perspective of a non-human character Anna Sewell
BBC Breakfast co-presenter who replaced Dan Walker this year Jon Kay
Burning desire to steal KLEPTOMANIA
Capital city, home to the Buddhist temple, the Great Sacred Stupa VIENTIANE
Central London terminus of “Javelin” train services for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics St Pancras
Children’s playground jumping game HOPSCOTCH
Cocktail of gin and vermouth MARTINI
Cole Porter show about the production of a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew kiss me kate
Couple depicted in at least eleven extant paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder Adam and Eve
Egyptian pharaoh ____ IV changed his name to Akhenaten during his attempt to introduce a monotheistic religion AMENHOTEP
Former South Africa and Warwickshire fast bowler, nicknamed “The White Lightning” Allan Donald
In English, ____s about age precede those about colour ADJECTIVE
Informally, the drug PCP used illegally as a hallucinogen Angel dust
Island capital, location of the baroque Co-Cathedral of St John VALLETTA
Jeanie’s ____ was light in a Stephen Foster song Brown hair
Manufacturer of bathroom and plumbing fixtures, with its largest factory in a Staffordshire village Armitage Shanks
Massachusetts port famed for its witchcraft trials of 1692 SALEM
Microsoft’s UK HQ is just outside this Berkshire town READING
Mostly extinct British Army rank with flag-carrying duties ENSIGN
Netherlands monarch from 1980 until her abdication in 2013 Queen Beatrix
New Zealand’s first female prime minister Jacinda Ardern
Clues Answers
Nietzsche’s name for an ideal human of the future, with values of their own rather than those of the past UBERMENSCH
Old Testament book between the Song of Solomon and Jeremiah ISAIAH
Recent linguistic creation such as chillax, staycation or selfie NEOLOGISM
Scottish folk hero played by Liam Neeson in a 1995 film Rob Roy
Shortened old name for the crew’s quarters on a ship fo'c'sle
Slim, in a simile that was used by Chaucer about a horse Thin as a rake
Sweden’s standard monetary unit having the value of 100 ore KRONA
Tasmania’s former name Van Diemen's Land
Terence Conran’s home furnishing company which opened its first store in Chelsea in 1964 HABITAT
The brightest star in the constellation Aquila ALTAIR
The content of row eight of the ____ table is hypothetical PERIODIC
The Japanese art of flower arranging IKEBANA
The Mayan city of Chichen Itza was built on this peninsula YUCATAN
The next partial ____ visible from the UK is on October 25 solar eclipse
The only kind of edible nut which is green PISTACHIO
The setting of Flaubert’s Un coeur simple; a cheese, probably the oldest still made in Normandy Pont l'Eveque
They trade with overseas companies IMPORTERS
Timepiece with a gnomon SUNDIAL
Where tzatziki and dolmades might be served TAVERNA
William Whiting’s hymn ____ Strong to Save has been used by the UK and US navies for more than a century Eternal Father
With 22A, the co-presenter of BBC Breakfast Sally Nugent
____ in Funen, choral and orchestral work by Carl Nielsen SPRINGTIME
____ Weekes was one of cricket’s “three Ws” EVERTON