| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 161 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “____ differ from ordinary mortals by their ability to admire loquacious and complicated delusions” (Anatole France) | SCIENTISTS |
| “____ or Dutch admiral” is one of the 16 species listed under “pea” in Dr Johnson’s dictionary | MARROWFAT |
| 1922 silent film (also called Possession) based on the novel by Anthony Hope | phroso |
| 2013 Man Booker prize winner with The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton |
| A collection of writings in honour of a scholar | festschrift |
| A lower-class republican (literally “without breeches”) in revolutionary France | sans-culotte |
| A meeting hall of the Salvation Army | CITADEL |
| A subpoena ____ orders the recipient to produce documentary evidence in court | duces tecum |
| A type of tapering marine buoy, marking the starboard side of a channel into a harbour | NUN |
| Actor mentioned in the Bangles hit Manic Monday | Rudolph Valentino |
| Actress who won an Oscar for her role in Prizzi’s Honor | Anjelica Huston |
| African country whose de jure capital is Dodoma | TANZANIA |
| An early species of mankind | Homo erectus |
| Archaic word for “dark brown”, used in ob____ate, to make unclear | fusc |
| Behaved | ACTED |
| British sitcom starring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy | George and Mildred |
| Dancing in the ____ was Toploader’s biggest hit | MOONLIGHT |
| Deputy leader of the Labour Party under Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband | Harriet Harman |
| Establishments serving Italian food in a casual atmosphere | trattorias |
| Fender guitar produced continuously since 1950 | TELECASTER |
| French director of films including Hiroshima mon amour and Stavisky… | Alain Resnais |
| Game show whose presenters included David Vine, Eddie Waring, and Frank Bruno | Its a Knockout |
| German-born philosopher who introduced the concept of the “banality of evil” | Hannah Arendt |
| In darts, a score of 20, double 20, and treble 20 | SHANGHAI |
| Indian hemp | true dagga |
| Informally, the motor racing circuit in Stavelot, Belgium | SPA |
| Largest city in France’s Haute-Savoie department | ANNECY |
| Latin phrase used to describe deduction of causes from observed effects | a posteriori |
| Maize, to a South African | MEALIE |
| Midfielder who made 115 appearances for Liverpool 2014-2018 and now plays for Juventus | Emre Can |
| Musical direction which originally meant “at ease” | ADAGIO |
| New Hampshire is known as the ____ | Granite State |
| Nickname of the first female tennis player to win all four Grand Slam titles in one calendar year | Little Mo |
| Parisian fashion house owned by Puig since 1998 | Nina Ricci |
| Pseudonym under which Karen Blixen wrote her first novel Seven Gothic Tales | Isak Dinesen |
| Tennessee city immortalised in a 1941 song by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra | CHATTANOOGA |
| The anterior naris | NOSTRIL |
| The avifauna of a region | ORNIS |
| The first line of the Jam’s The ____ is “Sup up your beer and collect your fags” | Eton Rifles |
| The Great Orme overlooks this Welsh seaside resort | LLANDUDNO |
| The Lord of the Rings | SAURON |
| The Memorial to the Missing in Ypres | Menin Gate |
| The needle of a record player | STYLUS |
| The world’s most remote inhabited archipelago | Tristan da Cunha |
| The youngest member of England’s 1966 World Cup winning team | Alan Ball |
| The ____ River connects lakes Erie and Ontario | NIAGARA |
| Written by Otis Blackwell, a 1957 hit for Elvis Presley | All Shook Up |
| ____ Homo (behold the man) is a depiction of Christ wearing the crown of thorns | ECCE |
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