The Times - Specialist -September 9 2018
The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 126 | |
Clues | Answers |
"I'm just a ____ prostitute, my dear" (Freddie Mercury) | MUSICAL |
"The ____ of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen" (final verse of King James Bible) | GRACE |
"Vulgarity is the ____ in the salad of charm" (Cyril Connolly) | GARLIC |
1773 legislation helping the East India Company, but not our North American colonies | tea act |
1964 musical written by Jerry Herman | Hello Dolly |
1964 single which became Ken Dodd's signature song | HAPPINESS |
A painter such as Thomas Cole or John Constable | landscape artist |
A proverbially calm body of water | mill pond |
A type of cactus or its intoxicant, mescal | PEYOTE |
Actor who played Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill | Christopher Walken |
Allergic ____ is another name for hay fever | RHINITIS |
American footballer who typically receives the ball to instigate a rush play | running back |
Anaesthetic often administered during childbirth | EPIDURAL |
Analogue colour TV system developed in France, similar to PAL and NTSC | secam |
Artificial radioactive element, atomic number 99 | EINSTEINIUM |
Bundle of fibrous tissue joining bones or cartilages | LIGAMENT |
Capital of St James parish, served by Jamaica's busiest airport | Montego Bay |
David Bowie single whose video was, at the time, the most expensive ever made | Ashes To Ashes |
Female tennis player, 2017 US Open champion | Sloane Stephens |
Fictional corporation frequently used in cartoons, notably those of Looney Tunes | ACME |
Former Benetton F1 director who recruited Michael Schumacher in 1991 | Flavio Briatore |
From the beginning (Latin) | ab ovo |
Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel | The Brothers Karamazov |
Goodbye to Berlin by ____ was adapted to make the play I Am a Camera | Christopher Isherwood |
In bridge, a ____ double invites partner to bid their best unbid suit | TAKEOUT |
Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of this Greek deity | ZEUS |
London's ____ was originally the Royal Coburg Theatre | Old Vic |
Magical phrase associated with Ali Baba | open sesame |
Mahler symphony in all but name, presented as an orchestral song cycle for alto and tenor | Das Lied von der Erde |
Main antagonist of the Resident Evil video games and films | Albert Wesker |
Musician who sang the "I want my MTV" backing vocal on Money for Nothing by Dire Straits | STING |
Narrator of On The Road by Jack Kerouac | Sal Paradise |
Nickname of the Burt Reynolds character Bo Darville in a 1977 comedy film | BANDIT |
Of a friar or nun, barefoot or wearing only sandals | discalceate |
Of an antelope, to leap with an arched back | PRONK |
Of an instrument, played with a mute | con sordino |
Partner of Jimmy Edwards in the BBC Radio series Take It From Here | Dick Bentley |
Ridden by Bob Champion, winner of the 1981 Grand National | aldaniti |
River whose delta constitutes the Camargue region | RHONE |
Samuel Irving ____ founded Advance publications, whose subsidiaries include Condé Nast | NEWHOUSE |
Singer regarded as the Queen of Disco | Donna Summer |
State of bondage, finally ended by Elizabeth I in 1574 | SERFDOM |
Stock pantomime character abandoned by Columbine in favour of Harlequin | PIERROT |
The 4 x 400m relay, at many track and field meetings | last event |
The composer of Boléro and La Valse | Maurice Ravel |
The goatfish, a popular Mediterranean delicacy | red mullet |
The oat genus | avena |
The palpebra | EYELID |
The pouches of kangaroos, wombats etc | MARSUPIA |
The real middle name of 3 Down; first name of a fictional teen diarist | ADRIAN |
To be highly noticeable, or to stubbornly resist | stand out |
Traditional Scottish dish of swede and potato | neeps and tatties |
Tree of the laurel family, traditionally used to make root beer and tea | SASSAFRAS |
Where to find bees or their hives | APIARY |
____ of the Nine Hostages was a 5th-century Irish high king, who may possibly have millions of living descendants | NIALL |
____ played Bubble in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous | Jane Horrocks |
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