The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 352

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Clues Answers
“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a ____ again” (Steve Jobs, on being fired by Apple) BEGINNER
1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd single, later a signature song Free Bird
A name for a breast-fed infant NURSLING
A name for the area around London’s Exhibition Road albertopolis
Band founded in Sidcup in 1963, whose S F Sorrow album was an early example of rock opera Pretty Things
Battles near this New York state town were decisive at the end of the American Revolutionary War SARATOGA
Bowler such as Muttiah Muralitharan or Graeme Swann off spinner
Car accessory which increases luggage space and wind resistance roof rack
Cook whose TV career was ended by savage criticism of an amateur cook’s proposed menu for an important lunch Fanny Cradock
Cyclist in three victorious British Olympic team pursuit teams, 2008-2016 Ed Clancy
Expressions with meanings independent of their parts IDIOMS
Frost came in this quantity in a long-running ITV series a touch
Geraldine ____ played Jess’s mother in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit MCEWAN
Gershwin song written for the 1927 musical Funny Face 'S Wonderful
Good weather in autumn; productivity late in life indian summer
Grade I listed building seen in some Constable paintings flatford mill
Group of Outer Hebrides islands, at least nine of which are populated UIST
Hans van Meegeren was proved to be a forger of Vermeer by his anachronistic use of ____ blue COBALT
Her autobiography is My Animals and Other Family Clare Balding
Historic kingdom in the north of modern Spain and Portugal LEON
HSBC and Santander are two of the UK’s ____s clearing bank
In German-speaking Switzerland, these may be bells, shields, roses or acorns playing cards
In old sporting language, boxing was the “____” noble science
In rugby union, this may be formed just after a tackle RUCK
Clues Answers
In the annual 14km race up and down this mountain, the record time is Kenny Stuart’s 1:25:34 in 1984 Ben Nevis
Influential dandy who was a favourite of George IV in his days as Prince of Wales Beau Brummell
Informally, one’s sternum BREASTBONE
John Steinbeck novella about migrant ranch workers of mice and men
Judith Keppel announced her retirement from this quiz team last October EGGHEADS
La ____ est la structure la plus haute de Paris Tour Eiffel
Male successful defender of the Olympic 1500m title Sebastian Coe
Name for a Second World War German POW camp officer GOON
Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups are the Hausa, ____ and Igbo YORUBA
Old-fashioned term describing a fainting person ASWOON
Russian composer Alexander ____ associated musical keys with colours SCRIABIN
Shipyard electrician, the 1983 Nobel peace prize winner Lech Walesa
Structures like gazebos, seen in some parks and squares BANDSTANDS
Symbol representing high quality or good behaviour gold star
The sailing class in which Ben Ainslie won three of his Olympic gold medals FINN
To become inflexible in habits or attitudes OSSIFY
Traditional trading vessel in East African or Arabian waters DHOW
TV show first broadcast in 1975, once called the “Z-Cars of nursing” ANGELS
____ acid is used in making Prozac and Teflon hydrofluoric
____ on Television introduced western viewers to the Japanese show Endurance Clive James
____ played Dorcas Lane in Lark Rise to Candleford Julia Sawalha
____ played Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the Crown Art Malik
____ rocks are derived from magma cooled below ground PLUTONIC
____ Zebra was a 1968 film of an Alistair MacLean thriller ice Station