The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 395

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“A novel that does not ____ a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral” (Milan Kundera) UNCOVER
“To die will be ____” (Peter Pan) An awfully big adventure
1969 No 1 single by fictional band the Archies Sugar Sugar
2006 film starring Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin The Last King of Scotland
A high-pressure weather system ANTICYCLONE
A Second World War Royal Australian Air Force member Blue Orchid
A small dog, probably originally from China; informally, a (human) boxer PUG
Actor who won several awards for his role as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad Aaron Paul
Adding something like gravel to a railbed or a ship’s bilge ballasting
An artillery wagon, or a watertight structure CAISSON
An usher in a Scottish law court MACER
Brian Murphy’s co-star in the sitcom George and Mildred Yootha Joyce
Connected series of texts by early Christian theologians CATENA
Ethiopian runner who broke the women’s world record at the 2023 Berlin Marathon Tigst Assefa
Familiar name of the Roman poet Publius ____ius Naso OVID
Feint is a name for some ____ paper LINED
Giant ____ are the world’s largest kind of antelopes ELANDS
Having been apprehended and manacled in cuffs
In the Russian-based Nadsat language of A Clockwork Orange, “____show” means “excellent” HORROR
Item of Japanese clothing which may be tied in the taiko musubi style OBI
Land mass comprising the mainlands of two countries and part of a third, the largest of its kind in Europe Scandinavian Peninsula
Legal drama series whose title appeared as a Californian licence plate LA Law
Major ingredient of some kinds of halva sesame paste
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Melodious or entrancing, in the style of a mythical poet ORPHEAN
Members of a ruling elite OLIGARCHS
Name adopted by militant female campaigners for women’s voting rights, though it was first used insultingly in the Daily Mail SUFFRAGETTE
Of an object in a video game, to appear in an environment SPAWN
Ornamental screen behind an altar REREDOS
Pacific region containing about two thirds of the world’s volcanoes Ring of Fire
Second half of the first line of My Way, as sung by Frank Sinatra end is near
Since 2006, this blended wine must be at least 70 per cent Sangiovese, and use no white grapes CHIANTI
Small marsupial, also called rat-kangaroo POTOROO
Small vessels towed behind larger ones cockboats
Soft-centred and sweeter version of an originally American confection chocolate fudge brownie
Solving a problem by force cutting the Gordian knot
Sri Lankan city which, minus its fifth letter, is a type of orange Jaffna
That which, perhaps surprisingly, did not feature in the original Kama Sutra erotic art
The “people’s princess' Lady Diana
The ____ Company’s staging of Mykola Lysenko’s adaptation of Natalka Poltavka was their last before a 2022 invasion Kyiv Opera
To criticise (something) harshly pull apart
Type of lens invented by Benjamin Franklin BIFOCAL
US drama series set at St Eligius Hospital in Boston St Elsewhere
Very clearly; for a specific purpose EXPRESSLY
____ has replaced cash registers in many large shops electronic point of sale
____ is now known as Uluru Ayers Rock
____ West (played by Kevin Kline) is the main antagonist in A Fish Called Wanda OTTO