The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 389

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“Do not let the Government run away the moment a few ____ are fired from the City of London” (David Lloyd George) VOLLEYS
“He’s next” said Frank Sinatra about ____, in the 1970s Barry Manilow
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone ____” (WC Fields) EQUALLY
“I’m pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the ____ bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming” (Mick Jagger, on Chinese censorship on tour) EXPAT
“Now, of my ____, / Twenty will not come again” (A Shropshire Lad) threescore years and ten
“____ is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith” (GK Chesterton) ATHEISM
1984 film featuring a time-travelling assassin from 2029 the terminator
2011 comedy-drama in a black and white silent style, the only French film to win a best picture Oscar The Artist
A “dead ____” in tennis is usually acknowledged as lucky net cord
A Buddhist monk in Tibet or Mongolia LAMA
A deer-chasing dog of a 2011 viral video; one of Stoke-on-Trent’s six towns FENTON
About six per cent of most vinegars is ____ acetic acid
Adjective describing Chimborazo, La Paz and Lake Titicaca ANDEAN
Arithmetical symbols are the titles of five albums by ____ Ed Sheeran
Arthur ____ conducted the Boston Pops orchestra for 49 years, 1930-79 FIEDLER
As a diplomat, in an official role in a specific location en poste
BBC series set in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae Doctor Finlay's Casebook
British social reformer who wrote Rural Rides William Cobbett
Centre-left party of Venezuela (Un Nuevo Tiempo in Spanish) A New Era
Chain of small grocery shops founded in 1977 and owned by the Co-op nisa
Co-star of Jeff and Beau Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys Michelle Pfeiffer
Freemen of the lowest class in Anglo-Saxon England CEORLS
Frequent object of the verb “sustain” in one of its meanings INJURY
Historian Hugh ____ gained fame from the Last Days of Hitler in 1947, and shame from the “Hitler Diaries” in 1983 Trevor-Roper
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In astronomy, a ____ is 3.26 light years PARSEC
In The Matrix, the “drug” not chosen by Neo when offered by Morpheus blue pill
Late 1970s BBC sitcom about the Tooting Popular Front Citizen Smith
Like stone lithoidal
Location of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Quai d'Orsay
Malcontents GRUMBLERS
Natural route from the Atlantic to the Pacific without rounding Cape Horn Strait of Magellan
Nerdy types, in US slang DWEEBS
Netherlands site of a 1944 defeat for the British Army ARNHEM
Pete ____ wrote the song Turn! Turn! Turn! in 1959 SEEGER
Poker declaration meaning “show me your cards” I call
Rearmost part of each human brain hemisphere occipital lobe
Set of clothes and bedclothes for a newborn child LAYETTE
Small dog named after a city and state in Mexico CHIHUAHUA
Somewhere for discussing controversial subjects without reprisal; a place where hate speech is not tolerated safe space
Stretch of land which, appropriately, contains the word “arid” Kalahari Desert
The “Giant Brain” computer launched in the US in 1946 ENIAC
The elite, especially among celebrities A-list
The merry monarch of nursery rhyme old king cole
The official colour of Loughborough University, worn by its athletes; a popular house plant African violet
The Scandinavian languages derive from ____ Old Norse
Urethane is an ____ of carbamic acid ESTER
____ is called Tafelberg in Afrikaans table mountain
____ tones are the lowest notes played on brass instruments PEDAL