The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 401

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“Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain foiled again
“Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) FOREBODES
1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medallist Cassius Clay
1975 Tom Sharpe novel about the construction of the M101 motorway Blott on the Landscape
1975 trucking song featuring Rubber Duck CONVOY
A roadside cafe, colloquially greasy spoon
A Sundance Film Festival entry, typically INDIE
Actress ____ is the sister of Warren Beatty Shirley MacLaine
Alistair ____ wrote Ice Station Zebra MACLEAN
Black panther who befriends Mowgli in The Jungle Book BAGHEERA
Books which are sold off cheaply REMAINDERS
Canada’s national summer sport LACROSSE
Ceres and Pluto are ____ planets DWARF
Comedian who co-founded the training film company Video Arts in 1972 John Cleese
Dagger with a long slender blade STILETTO
Dessert cocktail often topped with ground nutmeg brandy Alexander
Device typically used for a dial-up internet service MODEM
Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight LASSIE
First name of Abba’s youngest member agnetha
First of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels Under the Greenwood Tree
France’s longest river LOIRE
Full version of the abbreviation on Bénédictine liqueur bottle labels Deo Optimo Maximo
Giraffe relative with striped thighs OKAPI
Clues Answers
Governors of ancient Greek provinces; Eastern Orthodox bishops eparchs
Heraldic body located on Queen Victoria Street, London college of arms
Hoarding secretly STASHING
Horace and ____ are dog thieves in both 101 Dalmatians films Jasper Baddun
Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) dead as a doornail
Lambert Strether is the protagonist of this 1903 Henry James novel The Ambassadors
Long (for) YEARN
Musician who fronted the new wave band Tubeway Army Gary Numan
Nation with contiguous territory in two continents EGYPT
Old synonym for “lifted” or “removed”, now only used in an idiomatic phrase HOIST
Real name of rapper Puff Daddy Sean Combs
Religious celebration occurring on the same date every year immovable feast
Slayer of the monster Grendel BEOWULF
That which may colloquially be called a posse ENTOURAGE
The “Adulterous”, “Placemakers’” and “Sin on” ____ were named after printing errors BIBLES
The act of enforcing the forfeit of a surety for bail estreatment
The Muse of comedy THALIA
The name of TS Eliot’s Old Gumbie Cat JENNYANYDOTS
The Scuderia Ferrari team’s home racing circuit IMOLA
The ____ is an English language newspaper published in India since 1875 STATESMAN
TV presenter who won the sixth series of The Great British Bake Off Nadiya Hussain
____ Butler is the male protagonist of Gone with the Wind RHETT
____ played James T Kirk in several Star Trek films (2009-2016) Chris Pine