The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 124 | |
Clues | Answers |
"A play for voices" set in Llareggub | under milk wood |
"Crazy" was one of US country music singer Patsy ____'s greatest hits, in 1961 | CLINE |
"The greatest batsman of all time", whose Test batting average was 99.94 | Sir Don Bradman |
A cricketer's garb, colloquially | WHITES |
A male ____ has a reddish body, blue-grey head and black and white wings | CHAFFINCH |
A possible birthplace for trout or turkeys | HATCHERY |
A real mess or muddle | Dog's breakfast |
A white Rhine wine | RUDESHEIMER |
Athenian tragedian who wrote Antigone and Electra | SOPHOCLES |
Australian Betty ____ is the only runner to have won Olympic gold in the 100m, 200m and 400m | CUTHBERT |
Baronetcy assumed by John Buchan when he was ennobled in 1935 | TWEEDSMUIR |
Ben Kingsley, Whoopi Goldberg and Bono, eg | Stage names |
Caesar's comment about his victory at Zela in 47BC | veni vidi vici |
Captain of England in 2009 when they won their first Ashes Test at Lords since 1934 | Andrew Strauss |
Charitable organisation whose logo includes a gearwheel | ROTARY |
Comedian who played Inspector Raymond Fowler in the BBC series The Thin Blue Line | Rowan Atkinson |
Concrete causeways, built in the Second World War, linking mainland Orkney with Burray and South Ronaldsay | Churchill Barriers |
Dealer in textiles and apparel | CLOTHIER |
Easter ____, 1916 rebellion in Dublin which included the proclamation of an Irish Republic | RISING |
Forename created for the heroine of an Exmoor novel | LORNA |
Former Pakistan cricket captain, elected as the country's president in July | Imran Khan |
Geoff Boycott's signature headgear | Panama hat |
Headland of northwest Scotland, ten miles from Durness | Cape Wrath |
Ian Rankin's Edinburgh-based inspector | REBUS |
Ill-suited as partners | MISMATCHED |
In ancient Greece, six ____ made a drachma | OBOLS |
In sporting cliché, form is temporary but ____ is permanent | CLASS |
In which we are all down for the count every ten years | CENSUSES |
Infection transmitted by ticks which may affect joints, heart or brain | Lyme disease |
Joined other passengers on the Flying Scotsman or Eurostar | ENTRAINED |
Lord Mountbatten's home in Hampshire where Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh honeymooned | BROADLANDS |
Master of the ____, the head of the civil division of the Court of Appeal | ROLLS |
Memorial to Queen Victoria at one end of The Mall | Admiralty Arch |
Nationality of Maria Bueno and Emerson Fittipaldi | BRAZILIAN |
Native Americans who once lived in and around the southern Appalachians | CHEROKEES |
Northern arm of the Pacific Ocean, renowned for its king crab fisheries | bering sea |
Pass in a mountain range | COL |
Refusing to yield to authority, rebellious | INSUBORDINATE |
Royal dynasty which reached its zenith in the reign of Emperor Charles V | habsburgs |
Small shrimp-like crustaceans, main food of baleen whales | KRILL |
Southernmost point of Campbeltown's peninsula, and the 1977 Christmas No 1 for Wings | Mull of Kintyre |
Sticky, heavy and unhealthy food | STODGE |
Stops briefly — as Dave Brubeck might? | Takes five |
Tallis ____, ensemble specialising in early choral music | SCHOLARS |
Tax on goods produced for the home market | EXCISE |
The common ____ is the largest antelope of southern and eastern Africa | ELAND |
The family skeleton which should not be exposed to public gaze | Dirty linen |
The Irish monk who founded Lindisfarne Priory | AIDAN |
This gemstone is a greenish-blue form of beryl | AQUAMARINE |
US actor, the star of Midnight Cowboy and Rain Man | Dustin Hoffman |
Vegetable used in hummus and falafels | CHICKPEA |
Wading bird with a long horizontally flattened beak | SPOONBILL |
Weaken in quality | IMPAIR |
Wendy ____'s first sitcom role as a middle-class housewife was in Not in Front of the Children | CRAIG |
Wife of Louis XIII of France and daughter of Philip III of Spain | Anne of Austria |
Winter sport with cross-country and jumping events | Nordic skiing |
Without complications or conditions | No strings attached |
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