The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 394

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Clues Answers
“An ____ nation has no friends. The German people seriously worry me.” (Konrad Adenauer) UNSTEADY
“Creamy neutral paint colours are back — just don’t call it ____” (Sunday Times headline, 2023) MAGNOLIA
“He who has ____ his fears will truly be free” (Aristotle) OVERCOME
“It’s been ____ for the roses” (George Jones) A Good Year
“There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, ____, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public” SPITEFUL
1965 Beatles single; railway-based board game ticket to ride
1979 Fleetwood Mac album that followed Rumours TUSK
1982 George Thorogood song used in Terminator 2 Bad To The Bone
1997 courtroom drama film based on a John Grisham book The Rainmaker
A name used for God in Hebrew scripture ELOHIM
Actress who sounds as if she could have been perfect for a certain role in the film The Italian Job? Minnie Driver
Another name for Old English Anglo-Saxon
Another name of Pythia, prophetess linked to Apollo oracle of Delphi
Anuran who starred with Michael Caine and Tim Curry in film adaptations of literary classics KERMIT
Arms which can be pump-action or double-barrelled SHOTGUNS
Artist who painted The Number of the Beast is 666 william blake
Band whose singer wore an oversized business suit during the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense Talking Heads
Early writing system using a wedge-shaped stylus CUNEIFORM
Fruits which are used in Hawaiian pizza toppings PINEAPPLES
Home of Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1948-90 herstmonceux
In Greek myth, Aphrodite’s handsome mortal lover ADONIS
In the Jewish (religious) calendar, the year’s last month ADAR
Informal name for Aurora Borealis northern lights
Informal name for Indiana Hoosier State
Clues Answers
Item such as an Inverted Jenny or Treskilling Yellow postage stamp
Japanese word that means empty hand in English KARATE
Manager of a computer network SYSOP
Nationality of composer Anton Bruckner AUSTRIAN
Nicholas Crane’s distinctive equipment in Coast episodes UMBRELLA
North American term for black pudding blood sausage
Otherworld princess of Welsh myth, the wife of Pwyll, King of Dyfed RHIANNON
Painted canvas covered frame, part of a stage setting FLAT
Party decoration beaten to get at sweets inside PINATA
Perthshire mountain used in a 1774 experiment to estimate the earth’s mass schiehallion
Pianist depicted in the biopic Behind The Candelabra LIBERACE
Plant whose name derives ultimately from “parsley” in Greek CELERY
River which was the historic boundary between Co Durham and Yorkshire TEES
Roman Catholic prayers counted on a string of beads ROSARY
Shakespeare’s Danish haunted castle ELSINORE
Sitcom in which Diane Morgan plays single mum Liz MOTHERLAND
Succulent plant whose clear gel and yellow latex are both used in commercial products aloe vera
Supermodel who Marc Quinn sculpted in 18 carat gold Kate Moss
The Italian dish zuppa inglese resembles ____ TRIFLE
The largest of the green spaces managed by the City of London Corporation epping forest
The Third Man’s theme tune is played on this instrument ZITHER
Titular character of Dickens’s unfinished final novel edwin drood
Word that can come before music, lizard and suit LOUNGE
____ Rybakina won her first Wimbledon title in 2022 ELENA