The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 359

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“If you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least ____” (Steve Jobs) Once a year
15A was appointed to this office of state in 1536 Lord Privy Seal
A drinking place for animals Water hole
Asian volcano with a famously symmetrical cone Mount Fuji
Author of The Love and Lives of a She-Devil, who died on January 4 Fay Weldon
BBC programme which celebrated its 40th anniversary in January BREAKFAST
Behaved irritatingly, like a young child Played up
Coronation Street actor who plays the owner of Roy’s Rolls David Neilson
Countdown’s “Dictionary Corner” star for over 30 years Susie Dent
Creatures held to have spread the bacterium causing bubonic plague Black rats
Doing absolutely nothing bone-idle
Eric Morecambe was a supporter and director of this football club Luton Town
Formula One commentator famed for gaffes such as “Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna’s car sounding a bit rough?” Murray Walker
Freeview TV channel with content including medical and crime programmes REALLY
Geographical feature created by the rain shadow of the Himalayas gobi desert
Henry VIII’s chief advisor, who drafted most of the Reformation legislation thomas cromwell
High-energy particle physics research organisation based in Geneva CERN
In a German zoo, this kind of building is a Voliere AVIARY
Indian mixed rice dish which originated among Muslims as a variety of pilaf BIRYANI
Insects with a large head, long body and iridescent wings DRAGONFLIES
Invaders, probably from Palestine, who ruled Egypt from c 1650BC to c 1550BC HYKSOS
Large bird of prey noted for a “sky dance” courtship display GOSHAWK
Largest lake in Italy; an Irish police officer GARDA
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Loud raucous bird calls SQUAWKS
Maltese psychologist Edward ____ coined the term “lateral thinking” De Bono
Military term for ordinary rather than ceremonial uniform UNDRESS
Musical direction meaning “somewhat brisk” ALLEGRETTO
North Yorkshire village which is home to a Benedictine monastery and a Catholic public school AMPLEFORTH
Old-fashioned nickname for the police Boys in blue
Orkney and Shetland Northern Isles
Pertaining to the shoulder blade SCAPULAR
Russian city straddling a river near the Sea of Azov Rostov-on-Don
Severe criticism; cooking the Sunday joint ROASTING
Shoe style which became popular in the 1950s stiletto heel
Small fine-toothed cutting tool tenon saw
Socially, to “blank” someone Send to Coventry
Strips of wood joined together to form a barrel STAVES
The last emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie
The medieval college trivium was grammar, logic and ____ RHETORIC
The overly cheerful shipboard computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy EDDIE
Traditional Hawaiian party or feast, usually with entertainment LUAU
Very nervous OVERSTRUNG
Vital accessory for old computers like the ZX Spectrum Television set
Withheld from circulation or prohibited SUPPRESSED
Woodwind instrument which Wagner used extensively, eg in King Marke’s lament in Tristan and Isolde bass clarinet
____ Inn, in High Holborn, is London’s only surviving Elizabethan half-timbered building, on the site of a former wool trade centre and later an Inn of Chancery STAPLE