The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 131 | |
Clues | Answers |
"Go away" as often misattributed to Norman Tebbit | on your bike |
"It can only be attributable to human error" (____ in 2001: A Space Odyssey) | HAL |
1997 novel by Arthur Golden, about Chiyo Sakamoto | Memoirs of a Geisha |
2004 single by Kaiser Chiefs, following Oh My God | I Predict a Riot |
A division into factions, especially in a church | SCHISM |
A hot paste used in north African cookery | HARISSA |
A junior heraldic officer of the English College of Arms | Blue Mantle |
A mountain pass, derived from the Latin word for "neck" | COL |
A North African supposedly descended from a son of Noah | HAMITE |
Actor who played Bela Lugosi in the 1994 film Ed Wood | Martin Landau |
An epithet for the Greek goddess Athena | PALLAS |
An offensive of the Vietnam War, named after the Vietnamese New Year | TET |
Aroma, as that of perfume | REDOLENCE |
Artist who said "I don’t paint things. I only paint the differences between things" | MATISSE |
Body of water sometimes called America’s Dead Sea | Great Salt Lake |
British triathlete who won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games | Alistair Brownlee |
Citrus fruit also called pomelo, apparently named after a sea captain who introduced it to the West Indies | SHADDOCK |
Coats, jackets etc | outer garments |
Colourful loose shirt of African origin | DASHIKI |
Comedian who had long-time partnerships with Rob Newman and Frank Skinner | David Baddiel |
Dickens novel featuring schoolmaster Wackford Squeers | Nicholas Nickleby |
Fitted with mast and cables as most modern sailing boats are | Marconi-rigged |
Formerly a word used to describe a Native American woman, long considered derogatory | SQUAW |
French-American writer noted for her volumes of erotica | Anais Nin |
Golfer who, in 2013, became the first English player to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin | Justin Rose |
In 2011 this former Arsenal player became the Uefa Champions League’s youngest ever English goal-scorer | Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain |
In early 20th-century America, hitting the ____ meant touring for evangelical meetings | sawdust trail |
In US slang, to turn to a life of crime or immorality | break bad |
Indian city where the Golden Temple is located | AMRITSAR |
Informally, having the characteristics of both country and city life | rurban |
Informally, Norman Tebbit’s successor as MP for Chingford | IDS |
Linear polymer which carries genetic information | DNA |
Made more extreme or powerful | INTENSIFIED |
Measure by which Henry VIII was able to execute people without trials | act of attainder |
Minister of health, 1945-51 | Aneurin Bevan |
Norman ____’s 1964 painting The Problem We All Live With was seen as an iconic image for the civil rights movement | ROCKWELL |
Of two plant or animal species, living together so that one benefits without benefiting or harming the other | COMMENSAL |
One Albanian ____ is currently worth about 0.7p | LEK |
Only male tennis player to win both Wimbledon and French Open singles titles for three years in a row | Bjorn Borg |
Open pasture or grassland | LEA |
Pertaining to the longer of the forearm bones | ULNAR |
Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998 | Ted Hughes |
Poison secreted by a micro-organism into its surrounding environment | EXOTOXIN |
Somewhat anomalous material, first named as such by Arthur Schuster | ANTIMATTER |
The capital of Sudan | KHARTOUM |
The present tense conjugation of this Latin verb starts with "sum, est, es" | ESSE |
The ____ table is an arrangement of the elements | PERIODIC |
The ____ veins take deoxygenated blood from the head to the heart | JUGULAR |
Thorpe Park roller coaster named after a 2004 horror film | SAW |
Title of respect in Malay, the equivalent of Mr or Sir | TUAN |
US actress who once described herself as "ambisextrous" | Tallulah Bankhead |
Verdi opera with an auto da fé scene | Don Carlos |
Video game featuring Lara Croft, released in September 2018, the twelfth mainline title of its series | Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
Wimbledon and French and US Open men’s singles winner in 1989 | Boris Becker |
Winner of the British Touring Car Championship in 1997 and 2000 | Alain Menu |
With roles in Fearless and Ordinary Lies, daughter of the actress who plays Coronation Street’s Liz McDonald | Rebecca Callard |
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