The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 166 June 16 2019
| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 166 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| & 25A The first woman to sit in the House of Commons [two-word answer] | NANCY |
| “For here / Am I sitting in a ____, / Far above the world” (David Bowie, in Space Oddity) | tin can |
| “You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. ____.” (Miles Davis) | Charlie Parker |
| “____ is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings” (Ed Gardner) | OPERA |
| Actor James ____ built The Theatre in London in 1576 | BURBAGE |
| Bewildered, amazed | ASTOUNDED |
| Capital of Morocco, also a Maltese town near Mdina | RABAT |
| Colloidal dispersion of solid or liquid particles in a gas, such as smoke or fog | AEROSOL |
| Composer of Curlew River and The Prince of the Pagodas | Benjamin Britten |
| Debut single (and biggest hit) of Mungo Jerry, in 1970 | In the Summertime |
| Edinburgh residence of Scottish monarchs until 1603 | HOLYROODHOUSE |
| English pre-Raphaelite textile designer and writer | William Morris |
| Ernest Hemingway novel about Frederic Henry’s First World War experiences in Italy | A Farewell to Arms |
| Finland, to the Finns | SUOMI |
| French port at the mouth of the Seine | Le Havre |
| French wine made principally from merlot or cabernet sauvignon grapes | Bordeaux red |
| German city whose Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex became a Unesco world heritage site in 2001 | ESSEN |
| In 2008, Rebecca ____ became the first British swimmer since 1908 to win two gold medals at the same Olympics | adlington |
| Incus | ANVIL |
| Influential famous folk | LUMINARIES |
| Informally, the singer for whom Noel Coward created the role of Ada Cockle in The Girl Who Came To Supper | Two Ton Tessie |
| Irish statesman and philosopher who criticised Britain’s treatment of its American colonies | Edmund Burke |
| John Curry, Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie, for example | Ice-skaters |
| Justine ____, Belgian tennis player who won the French Open in 2003 and 2005-2007 | HENIN |
| Martyr, later canonised, believed to be the first bishop of Paris | DENIS |
| Musical direction — “all playing (or singing) together” | TUTTI |
| New York suburb to the north of the Bronx | YONKERS |
| Notre Dame’s three ____s survived the fire in April | Rose window |
| Painter of Antwerp Cathedral’s The Descent from the Cross | RUBENS |
| Palindromic trade name for a machine used to aerate soil | rotavator |
| Part of the Antarctic Ocean, named after a British navigator | Weddell Sea |
| Philosophical study of the fundamental nature of reality | METAPHYSICS |
| Piz Bernina is the highest mountain in the Eastern ____ | ALPS |
| Racing toboggan on which riders lie on their backs | LUGE |
| Rang the changes | PEALED |
| Saying about a city, recorded by Goethe in his Italian Journey | See Naples and die |
| Scottish football team from Paisley, “The Buddies” | St Mirren |
| See 8D | ASTOR |
| The emperor ____ monkey is supposedly so-called as its “moustache” makes it resemble Wilhelm II | TAMARIN |
| The first person, in 1935, to fly solo from Hawaii to the US mainland | Amelia Earhart |
| The odious hypocrite of Molière’s comedy | TARTUFFE |
| The Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 prohibited the import of ____ into the UK | Flick-knives |
| The world of Enid Blyton’s Noddy books | TOYLAND |
| Thoroughfare along the south side of St James’s Park | Birdcage Walk |
| Trophy to be awarded on September 16, 2019 | the ashes |
| Wilhelm ____ is jointly credited for the discovery of calculus | LEIBNITZ |
| Wind-pollinated hanging flowering spike of various trees | CATKIN |
| ____ de Machaut, French composer of songs in the 1300s | guillaume |
| ____ Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter | NATHANIEL |
| ____ were originally played for important people, or sung by lovers for their ladies | SERENADES |
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