| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 197 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| "I met her in ____, in old Mexico" (Frank Sinatra, on his Songs for Swingin' Lovers album) | MONTERREY |
| 2005 sci-fi anthology including works by Charles Stross and Robert Silverberg | One Million AD |
| A drug used to treat angina | verapamil |
| A foundling | enfant trouve |
| A local authority has no duty to maintain such a road | UNADOPTED |
| A UK album will ____ if it sells over 300,000 copies | go platinum |
| Abbreviated name for a hoppy style of beer, made in Britain since about 1835 | IPA |
| Airline entrepreneur whose concepts influenced the likes of Ryanair and easyJet | Freddie Laker |
| Alloy of, mainly, iron and carbon | STEEL |
| Alternative comedy show which debuted on the first night of Channel 4 | The Comic Strip Presents |
| An informal name for Viola tricolor, the wild pansy | herb-trinity |
| Ancient Athenian statesman and general, who led his Antiochis tribe at the battle of Marathon | ARISTIDES |
| 23-Apr | St George's Day |
| British sitcom starring Ricky Gervais as Andy Millman | EXTRAS |
| Burma's former capital city | RANGOON |
| Comedian whose UK national tour in the autumn of 2019 was called Healing the Nation | Andy Parsons |
| Condition which may technically be called aesthenopia | EYESTRAIN |
| Document which allows the holder to leave a country | exit visa |
| Epicene third person singular dependent possessive pronoun | THEIR |
| Extremely thin | EMACIATED |
| Fake, from a German word meaning "compensation" or "replacement'" | ERSATZ |
| Formal expression of phrase, a panegyric | ENCOMIUM |
| Former horse-drawn carriage for passengers and mail | post chaise |
| Genre of music played by bands like Brand New Heavies | acid jazz |
| In Greek myth, the weaver turned into a spider by Athena | ARACHNE |
| Italian city whose Serie A football club are based at the Stadio Friuli | UDINE |
| Japanese electronics company which developed the CD-Rom format in 1982 | DENON |
| Marshy wooded region, typically of Siberia | TAIGA |
| Mode of pronunciation often determined by region | ACCENT |
| Mythical creature of a type depicted by the zodiac sign Sagittarius | CENTAUR |
| National personification, often seen with a goatee beard | Uncle Sam |
| Neil Sedaka's 1960 single after Stairway to Heaven | You Mean Everything to Me |
| New South Wales city, home to Mount Panorama motor racing circuit | BATHURST |
| Of a horse, to lose a shoe before or during a race | spread a plate |
| Samuel Butler's term for a participant in a scholastic disputation, including objections to ideas | ob-and-soller |
| Slender probe used in surgery | STYLET |
| South Korean car maker whose models include the 18D | HYUNDAI |
| Surname of Spandau Ballet's two brothers | KEMP |
| The final studio album of Motorhead | Bad Magic |
| The first British woman to win five Grammy awards | Amy Winehouse |
| The plain suits in a tarot pack used for divination | minor arcana |
| The rightful ruler of this fictional capital is Princess Ozma | Emerald City |
| Unit of atmospheric pressure | BAR |
| US state with "Famous Potatoes" on its vehicle registration plates | IDAHO |
| Vice-chairman of West Ham United and former managing director of Birmingham City | Karren Brady |
| Where an Aussie keeps tinnies | ESKY |
| Youngster said to be "full of grace" | Tuesday's child |
| ____ was postmaster general when Premium Bonds and postcodes were introduced | Ernest Marples |
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