The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 406

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“And leave me to this miserable death. / And then they called me foul ____” (Shakespeare) ADULTERESS
“Hey, ____, so what am I so afraid of?” (The Partridge Family) I Think I Love You
“How ____ to be human” (Kurt Vonnegut) EMBARRASSING
“I’m a short-term nostalgic; things were great ten minutes ago. If only ____ back there.” (John Cooper Clarke) I could go
“It’s the economy, ____!” (Political slogan) STUPID
1940 film remade starring a bikini-clad Raquel Welch One Million BC
1957 post-nuclear Nevil Shute novel On The Beach
1988 film in which Tom Cruise plays a mixologist COCKTAIL
American Buckley class destroyers and British Flower class corvettes were used in convoy ____s in the Battle of the Atlantic ESCORT
Australian lizard, popular as a pet reptile bearded dragon
Author of The Art of the Deal, six of whose businesses filed for bankruptcy Donald Trump
Banana ____ are the largest variety of these Allium genus members SHALLOTS
Bill Clinton’s vice president Al Gore
Colombia’s Avianca is one of the world’s oldest ____ AIRLINES
Composer of Finlandia Jean Sibelius
Creature included in the name of whisky first made by the Gloag family GROUSE
Elizabeth Gaskell’s debut novel Mary Barton
English hard cheese coloured by the addition of annatto red leicester
First female speaker of the House of Commons Betty Boothroyd
French biscuit named after an animal body part langue de chat
Greek hero slain by Paris ACHILLES
Greek muse of epic poetry CALLIOPE
Haematite and magnetite are mineral forms of ____ iron oxide
Himalayan cryptozoological beast YETI
Clues Answers
In music, performed slowly ADAGIO
Kasper Schmeichel’s nationality DANISH
Kneecaps PATELLAE
Linden wood souvenirs made with lathes, first produced in 1890 Russian dolls
Military slang for an arduous trek YOMP
Mythical golden city of the Americas el dorado
Noel Gallagher once worked as a ____ for Inspiral Carpets ROADIE
Nut which can spontaneously combust PISTACHIO
One name for Ursa Major’s seven brightest stars The Big Dipper
Particle emitted by an atom in interaction with a light particle PHOTOELECTRON
Pluto’s largest satellite CHARON
Possessing a saw-like edge SERRATED
Related to a career VOCATIONAL
Singer of Opposites Attract Paula Abdul
Surname shared by a chess-playing Akiba and a piano-playing Artur RUBINSTEIN
Tenzing Norgay, for example SHERPA
Territory which first became part of the Russian Empire in 1783 CRIMEA
The Channel Islands were once part of the Duchy of ____ NORMANDY
Theatrical rock star born Vincent Furnier Alice Cooper
Town whose football team is nicknamed The Terriers HUDDERSFIELD
Type of jug with a tricorn hat normally forming the spout TOBY
What Marshall, Fender and Vox produce AMPS
Word that can precede SSC and follow pelvic THRUST
Zodiac sign whose symbol is said to represent creatures tied together by a rope PISCES