The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 153 | |
Clues | Answers |
'Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Thou art not so unkind / As man's ____' (As You Like It) | INGRATITUDE |
'Richard of York gave battle in vain' for example | MNEMONIC |
'She cut her hair and her ties to the past' is an example of this figure of speech | ZEUGMA |
'____ is fine — but human nature is finer' (John Keats) | SCENERY |
1971 novel by V S Naipaul, winner of that year’s Booker Prize | In a Free State |
A large merchant sailing ship | WINDJAMMER |
Alphabet used for Slavonic languages | CYRILLIC |
An alternative to 'strength' and 'schnapps' as an eight-letter word with one vowel | SCHMALTZ |
An ____ order allows search and seizure of evidence without warning | Anton Piller |
Beirut is the capital of this country | LEBANON |
Canadian province to the east of Ontario | QUEBEC |
Changing position to gain advantage | manoeuvring |
Church partition surmounted by a crucifix, many of which were destroyed in the Reformation | rood screen |
Cricketer who captained England in the early 1960s | Ted Dexter |
Current top-ranked British male tennis player | Kyle Edmund |
Easternmost point on the Republic of Ireland’s mainland | Wicklow Head |
Feeding on any kind of food available | OMNIVOROUS |
Fictional detective introduced in The Mysterious Affair at Styles | hercule poirot |
German sausage | WURST |
Gordon Ramsay has recently added a vegan ____ to the menu at his Bread Street Kitchen | ROAST |
Greek Muse of tragedy | MELPOMENE |
Informally, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance | Warsaw Pact |
Items of furniture, especially in kitchens | UNITS |
Local official in Anglo-Saxon England | REEVE |
New town in Hertfordshire; birthplace of golfer Nick Faldo | Welwyn Garden City |
One setting of the sitcom Gavin & Stacey | BILLERICAY |
Part of the body to which the word “ungual” applies | NAIL |
Pension off | SUPERANNUATE |
Protagonist of Gustave Flaubert's debut novel | Emma Bovary |
Rappel | ABSEIL |
Small red fruit, rich in vitamin C | ROSEHIP |
Spanish province between Malaga and Almeria | GRANADA |
The 'man-cub' of stories by Rudyard Kipling | MOWGLI |
The centimetre-gram-second unit of work | ERG |
The herb Salvia officinalis | SAGE |
The last character to speak in Hamlet | FORTINBRAS |
The oldest male tennis player to play in two Grand Slam finals in the same year | Ken Rosewall |
The original 'It girl' | Clara Bow |
The pop duo of Richard Drummie and Peter Cox | Go West |
The slow ____ is a nocturnal primate | LORIS |
The ____, popular title of Skrik by Edvard Munch | SCREAM |
To do something 'pour ____ les bourgeois' is to attempt to create a sensation | EPATER |
To soak in liquid to loosen fibres | RET |
Type of snake which gives birth to live young | BOA |
Wading bird of the sandpiper family with long, downcurved bill | CURLEW |
Winterbourne is the suitor in this 1879 novella by Henry James | Daisy Miller |
Wonderful to tell (Latin) | mirabile dictu |
____ paper may also be used for dictionaries | BIBLE |
____ played Esmerelda in the 1957 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Gina Lollobrigida |
____, Carrick and Cumnock is a Scottish parliamentary constituency created in 2005 | AYR |
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