The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 357

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Clues Answers
“Mrs Rose Cottage’s eldest Mae, seventeen and never been ____” (Under Milk Wood) KISSED
“Space is the final ____, and so is the sewage farm” (Diana Wynne Jones) FRONTIER
“There are no atheists in ____” (Unknown) FOXHOLES
1977 film for which John Williams won his second Oscar for an original score Star Wars
A person who is the opposite of James May in his eponymous BBC Four series disassembler
Actress who won an Oscar for Black Swan Natalie Portman
Adjective for someone whose knowledge about a field is from reading or observation rather than experience ARMCHAIR
American name for a skip (as a container) DUMPSTER
As a musical instruction, to be repeated from the start da capo
Bleu is the ____ kind of cooked steak RAREST
Card game with an optional “muggins” rule, punishing failure to claim points CRIBBAGE
Catlike mammals with long and bushy ringed tails GENETS
Chevrolet model named after an antelope IMPALA
City which hosted the 2004 summer Olympics ATHENS
Company founded in France’s Cognac region in 1724 Remy Martin
Computer security software company now owned by Intel MCAFEE
Dogs such as Andy Murray’s Maggie May, Elton John’s Dennis, and the fictional Lassie’s friend Toots Border terriers
French term denoting good knowledge of something au fait
In ____ equations, the numbers of unknowns and equations are the same SIMULTANEOUS
Indie band named after a South African football team Kaiser Chiefs
Informal name for some plants like the brightly-flowered busy Lizzie BALSAM
Kemal Ataturk’s mausoleum overlooks this city ANKARA
Literary title used at various times previously but first confirmed in letters patent for John Dryden in 1668 poet laureate
North American term for an autocue TELEPROMPTER
Clues Answers
Of an activity, done by successive groups in relays
One of the two track and field events in which two British women have won Olympic gold HEPTATHLON
Phrase meaning “quite frequently” as often as not
Phrase meaning playing well in your chosen sport on one's game
Picasso work depicting the bombing of a Basque town GUERNICA
Prime minister who brought in the Second Reform Act Earl of Derby
Rank of the fictional Sarah Woodruff's Varguennes LIEUTENANT
Robin Williams’s first well-known role, in a sitcom MORK
Sad clown stock character, usually with white makeup and clothing PIERROT
Seafood which is often “white” or “brown” CRABMEAT
Sketch show in which Rab C Nesbitt first appeared Naked Video
Sour Billy is one Scottish name for this fragrant flowering plant sweet william
Surname of Enfield and Burke’s Wayne and Waynetta SLOB
Synthpop duo comprising Vince Clarke and Andy Bell ERASURE
The European species of this wading bird is black and white except for blue legs AVOCET
The French word for a present CADEAU
The full name of this street lighting device includes “vapour” sodium lamp
The only Doors number currently in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Light My Fire
There is a statue of this fashion influencer in London’s Jermyn Street Beau Brummell
Vietnam’s currency unit DONG
Wild goat, sometimes seen climbing near-vertical dams to lick salt IBEX
Woman’s Own agony aunt and author of People in Love (1968), a ground-breaking sex manual Claire Rayner
____ were Christian ascetics who lived on top of pillars STYLITES
____’s Adagio is an arrangement of one movement of his string quartet Samuel Barber