The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 403

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“O ____ Absalom, ____ ____ Absalom!” (2 Samuel xviii, 33) my son
“The gun […] was a toy, as you could tell really by the ____ look of it” (Ruth Rendell crime novel) plasticky
A ____ king or queen has no crown or subjects PEARLY
Alternative to candy in a seven-word Ogden Nash poem LIQUOR
An amount of potentially useful but unusable material SPOILAGE
An employer of inspectors, set up in 1992 OFSTED
An old version of a word meaning carelessly lazy lackadaisy
Ancient Greek colonists in the central Mediterranean italiots
Another name for mangetout snow pea
Architectural style combining elements from multiple sources ECLECTICISM
Australian cattle breed, named after a New South Wales coastal area ILLAWARRA
Ballet dance with an unusual number of performers pas de trois
Became a King’s Counsel took silk
Because of an adjustment to the International Date Line, this day in 1994 did not exist in parts of ____ KIRIBATI
Cocktail which is about 50 per cent ginger wine whisky mac
Desert region of southern Israel NEGEV
In biology, this is often described as a single helix ribonucleic acid
In the style of an influential German-American architect miesian
Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di ____ is one of the world’s oldest banks SIENA
Member of the Thought Police, known only by his surname, in Orwell’s 1984 O'Brien
Members of special operations units in one US military force Navy Seals
Most inhabitants of San José or Alajuela are ____ Costa Ricans
Mount Thor, said to have the world’s biggest vertical drop, is in this part of Canada Baffin Island
New world animal with species commonly called “big hairy” and “pink fairy” ARMADILLO
On this day in 1757, Elizabeth I of Russia issued a ukase incorporating the Prussian city of ____ into Russia konigsberg
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On this day in 1879, ____ made the first public use of incandescent lighting, in Menlo Park, New Jersey thomas Edison
On this day in 1961, Raidió ____ made its first TV broadcasts teilifis Eireann
On this day in 1992, ____ split into two republics CZECHOSLOVAKIA
On this day in 1999, Russian president Boris ____ resigned YELTSIN
One name for the first antiretroviral HIV medication AZT
Plants depicted in a vase in several Van Gogh paintings with a limited colour palette SUNFLOWERS
Screenwriter and director whose service in the Vietnam war influenced much of his work Oliver Stone
Small case hanging from the obi of kimono wearers INRO
Somewhat perversely, what is lacking in ____ roads is often pitch or concrete unmetalled
The kind of sound made by a propeller or an insect’s wings WHIRR
The leading members of a major British political party front bench
The only six-letter month on a Spanish calendar AGOSTO
The player seated on the left side of a large piano stool SECONDO
The product of the melting of a cirque glacier TARN
The Roman city which later became Colchester camulodunum
The state capital of Kansas TOPEKA
The ____s in Crystal Palace Park (pictured) were made with large moulds. On this day in 1853, a dinner was held inside one of them IGUANODON
This mollusc is “ormer” in Britain and “paua” in New Zealand ABALONE
To instigate a decision in a formal meeting put the question
Unit of length often equated with 45 inches ELL
Unlike Arkhangelsk, the port of Murmansk is ____ ice-free
What oboe and bassoon players are likely to worry about REEDS
What Robert McKenzie measured on election nights SWING
When a bill is ____, it becomes law ENACTED