The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 159 | |
Clues | Answers |
1923 Pulitzer prize winner for One of Ours | Willa Cather |
1962 single by Nancy Sinatra; 2018 single by David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Brooks | Like I Do |
1984 musical film starring Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer | FOOTLOOSE |
A pin for holding the hair in place | BARRETTE |
A small carnivore or a type of antelope | SABLE |
A symptom of kidney failure | anuria |
About 25 per cent of the UK’s groups of ____ are recognised by the Royal Navy | Sea Scouts |
Actor who founded southeast London’s Dulwich College | Edward Alleyn |
Actress and singer who was Hollywood’s “Sarong Queen” | Dorothy Lamour |
Afrikaans term for a foreigner, such as a British immigrant in 19th-century Transvaal | uitlander |
Archipelago formerly known as the New Hebrides | VANUATU |
Author of How Green Was My Valley | Richard Llewellyn |
Author of the Metamorphoses | OVID |
Blade which may be attached to a rifle muzzle | BAYONET |
Breathing tube inserted after a tracheotomy | CANNULA |
Cassiterite is the only commercially important ____ | tin ore |
Central California city, a gateway to the Sierra Nevada | FRESNO |
Chris ____ played Roy Trenneman in The IT Crowd | O'Dowd |
Company which published the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus in 1852 | longman |
Constellation noted for the “W” shape of its brightest stars | CASSIOPEIA |
Cylindrical firm cheese produced in France’s Auvergne region | CANTAL |
Dickens character whose dog is called Bull’s-eye | Bill Sikes |
District of London in which Enid Blyton was born | DULWICH |
Fictional character who has affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis | Emma Bovary |
Game show first shown in September 2008 on BBC Four | Only Connect |
Hilary Mantel novel documenting the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell | Wolf Hall |
In astronomy, an informal alternative to “circumstellar” as a description of a habitable zone | GOLDILOCKS |
In literature or music, a recurring theme | LEITMOTIF |
In old slang, a ____-worry was a tea-party | MUFFIN |
Insectivore of the Soricidae family | SHREW |
Jamaican musical genre, a precursor to reggae | SKA |
James Joyce novel which revolves around the Earwicker family | Finnegans Wake |
Location which inspired the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire | Ilkley Moor |
Oily secretion which lubricates hair and skin | SEBUM |
One sixth of a drachma in ancient Greece | OBOL |
Opera in which the eponymous character’s father is the Emperor Altoum | TURANDOT |
Paul Theroux novel adapted into a 1986 film | The Mosquito Coast |
Resembling skin | DERMATOID |
Robbie Coltrane played Rubeus ____ in Harry Potter films | HAGRID |
The current world chess champion | Magnus Carlsen |
The distinctive standards of an institution or individual | ETHOS |
The European Space Agency’s programme contributing to the International Space Station | COLUMBUS |
The headquarters of the Council of Europe are in ____ | STRASBOURG |
The Isle of Bute is in the ____ | Firth of Clyde |
The most recent Grand National winner sponsored by a company of the same name | SEAGRAM |
The only member of Robin Hood’s Merry Men present in the most common account of his death | Little John |
The President of India | Ram Nath Kovind |
The proboscis monkey is the only member of this genus | NASALIS |
The ____ Peninsula separates the Thames and Medway estuaries | HOO |
Two-pronged attachment to a boat, for securing ropes | CLEAT |
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