The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 399

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#001 in Pokémon’s monster index bulbasaur
“From ____” means all the way through start to finish
“Much have I travell’d in the ____ of gold / And many goodly states and kingdoms seen” (Keats) REALMS
“True ease in writing comes from ____, not chance” (Alexander Pope) ART
“When your own life is threatened, your sense of ____ is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival” (Yann Martel in Life of Pi) EMPATHY
1977 comedy film based on The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark Nasty Habits
1982 film about “Dorothy Michaels” TOOTSIE
A conservative shot in golf and an easy one in basketball lay-up
Advertising slogan of Skittles confectionery taste the rainbow
African port capital on the Mediterranean Sea TUNIS
Author of Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson
Bird whose name refers to its large bill GROSBEAK
Collective noun for monkeys TROOP
Composer of Limp Preludes for a Dog Erik Satie
Dame ____ was MI5’s first female director general Stella Rimington
English electronics manufacturer bought out by Philips in 1976 PYE
Erich ____ directed the 1924 silent film Greed Von Stroheim
French architect who designed Federal City (later Washington DC) Pierre Charles L'Enfant
French town which was famous for its lace in the 18th century ALENCON
Gullets, in anatomy OESOPHAGI
In bridge, to bid in the same suit as your partner RAISE
In the words of Basil Fawlty, one who “appreciates the boudoir of the grape” (US spelling) enophile
Kneading technique used in massage petrissage
L’épouse d’un roi REINE
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Lead single from the Nirvana album Nevermind Smells Like Teen Spirit
Novel character portrayed by Vivien Leigh in 1939 Scarlett O'Hara
One of the three sub-atomic particles which are the lightest hadrons pi-meson
Parma, Ferrara and Rimini are cities in this Italian region Emilia-Romagna
Pertaining to prescribed drugs PHARMACEUTICAL
Pertaining to wedlock MARITAL
Pink single released in September 2002 Family Portrait
Polish footballer who scored 19 goals for Arsenal (2012-2015) Lukas Podolski
River which flows into the North Sea at Cuxhaven ELBE
Shane Warne and Anil Kumble were notable ____s leg spinner
Shellfish mentioned in the title of a 1980 single MUSSELS
Sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler The Thin Blue Line
Sport in which a player must release the ball within three seconds of receiving a pass NETBALL
Subject of airline etiquette discussion ARMREST
Surname of baseball’s “Sultan of Swat” RUTH
Technical term for a living organism BIONT
The birthplace of Christopher Columbus GENOA
The coloured rings of irises AREOLAE
The parasitic flatworm Fasciola hepatica liver fluke
Town near Salisbury where carpets were made for about 250 years until 1995 WILTON
Unemployed and claiming benefit, in Scotland on the broo
US series of programmes and reforms which started in 1933 new deal
____ played the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire Christian Slater
____ Sky was Elton John’s 1969 debut album EMPTY