The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 164 June 2 2019
| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 164 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “… he will be sent on a tour around the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic ____ will follow” (Keir Hardie, five days after the birth of the future Edward VIII) | ALLIANCE |
| “I am dying, ____, dying” (Antony and Cleopatra) | EGYPT |
| 1963 film starring Paul Newman as the hard-drinking, arrogant, womanising rancher ____ Bannon | HUD |
| A cricket penalty for illegal action by a bowler or fielder | no-ball |
| A military officer below the rank of captain | SUBALTERN |
| A sixpenny bit | TANNER |
| Adding a two-letter word to this boat makes a sauce | KETCH |
| African country bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia | DJIBOUTI |
| Assistant who may wear an aiguillette | aide-de-camp |
| BBC radio announcer dubbed the Godfather of Radio 4 by impressionist group Dead Ringers | Brian Perkins |
| British heavy metal band fronted by Ian Hill | Judas Priest |
| Canadian singer whose debut single was Complicated | Avril Lavigne |
| Distributary branch of the Rhine which formerly discharged into the Zuiderzee | IJSSEL |
| Doctor ____ is the third novel in Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire | THORNE |
| Drupe | stone fruit |
| England and Great Britain hockey captain for 13 years, who won Olympic gold and bronze medals | Kate Richardson-Walsh |
| English cricketer, main exponent of “bodyline” bowling | Harold Larwood |
| Europe’s longest river | VOLGA |
| Film director who won Oscars for In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, and Moonstruck | Norman Jewison |
| Final part of the Shakespeare tetralogy which begins with Richard II | Henry V |
| From Greek for “many years”, an Eastern Orthodox chant for an individual or the Orthodox community | polychronion |
| Front part of the upper of a shoe | VAMP |
| Generic and trade name of curtain-sided vans and lorries | tautliner |
| Guys and Dolls song, a Frank Sinatra signature tune | Luck Be a Lady |
| Henry James novel about the daughter of Beale and Ida Farange | What Maisie Knew |
| Hormone regulating circadian rhythms, secreted by the pineal gland | MELATONIN |
| In geometry, one of the lines enclosing an angle | ARM |
| In rugby, a loose scrum in which the ball is on the ground | RUCK |
| Jewish festival starting on Nissan 15 | PASSOVER |
| Member of the mint family, related to oregano | THYME |
| Of a graphical element, to automatically align with a grid (computing) | SNAP |
| Parliamo ____? | ITALIANO |
| Portrayed by Alexander Siddig, the chief medical officer in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Julian Bashir |
| Pub restaurant chain operated by Mitchells & Butlers | Toby Carvery |
| River featured in the title of an epic 1957 war film | KWAI |
| Rock music genre often using confessional lyrics | EMO |
| Ruined tower house near Corbridge in Northumberland, associated with the Radclyffe family | Dilston Castle |
| Ruth’s mother-in-law (Bible) | NAOMI |
| Someone who often uses comparisons in explanations | ANALOGIST |
| Spice produced from the distinctive pericarps of Illicium verum | star anise |
| Standard ____ are one of Belgium’s most successful football clubs | LIEGE |
| Supporter of complete state supremacy over the church | ERASTIAN |
| The free i____ app puts Roman Catholic liturgy on your tablet | BREVIARY |
| The most populous borough of New York City | BROOKLYN |
| The principle behind the universe in Chinese philosophy | TAO |
| Tom Sharpe novel about a proposed motorway | Blott on the Landscape |
| Woman’s lace headgear, often with a flap on each side | Dutch cap |
| Yevgeny ____ wrote the poem Babi Yar | yevtushenko |
| ____ displays promotional material as you websurf | ADWARE |
| ____ played Jacob Marley’s ghost in the 1951 film Scrooge | Michael Hordern |
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