| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 198 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| "The ____s were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke" (Antony and Cleopatra) | OAR |
| 'Not the ____ which blows no man to good' (Pistol, in King Henry IV) | ill wind |
| 1979 album by Fleetwood Mac | TUSK |
| 19th-century Italian painter best known for his Alpine landscapes | Giovanni Segantini |
| A catafalque is often used in this ceremonial event | lying in state |
| A male or female factotum | Person Friday |
| A mother who gave birth when over 100 years old, according to chapter 5 of Genesis | EVE |
| According to the Church of England's Table of Kindred and Affinity, a man may not marry his ____ | NIECE |
| Actor who played butler Benson in the US sitcom Soap | Robert Guillaume |
| Air-filled skull cavity, a Latin word meaning "curve" or "pocket" | SINUS |
| An unskilled computer hacker who makes use of existing code | script kiddie |
| Ancient Scandinavian brass instrument | LUR |
| Artistic presentation in which performers are motionless | tableau vivant |
| Author of the Inspector Morse novels | Colin Dexter |
| Bernard ____ was a fictional scientist on 1950s BBC TV | QUATERMASS |
| Box from which cards are dealt in a casino | SHOE |
| Brand name shown on many speed cameras | gatso |
| British name for an x-ray device used in shoe shops during fitting in the mid-20th century | pedoscope |
| Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| Canadian crime comedy series about mountie Benton Fraser's adventures in Chicago | Due South |
| Colourless viscous liquid used to sweeten food and thicken liqueurs | GLYCEROL |
| Comic actor who played Ken in the "Suits you" sketches | Paul Whitehouse |
| Devon town, with England's most westerly racecourse | Newton Abbot |
| Driver who in 1995 became (and remains) the youngest ever winner of the World Rally Championship | Colin McRae |
| Ferdinand II of ____ and Isabella I of Castile were Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" | ARAGON |
| Form of alternative medicine, devised by Mikao Usui | REIKI |
| Handel pastoral opera based on characters in Ovid's Metamorphoses | Acis and Galatea |
| If you do this in bridge, your opponents will almost certainly score 50 or more points above the line | OVERBID |
| In Roman myth, a son of the vestal virgin Rhea Silvia | REMUS |
| In spite of what has just been stated | even then |
| Jamaican-born US 400m runner, world No 1, 2005-09 | Sanya Richards-Ross |
| Jean Hill, witness to the assassination of John F Kennedy, was known as the ____ | Lady In Red |
| Lover of Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World | Shawn Keogh |
| Mammal with lips but no teeth | ANTEATER |
| Name for a Cambridge University undergraduate course | TRIPOS |
| National anthem whose original title translates as "War Song for the Army of the Rhine" | MARSEILLAISE |
| Obsolete double reed instrument pitched below the oboe | tenoroon |
| Pike-like fish of the Belone genus | GAR |
| Short thrusting sword in use until the 17th century | ESTOC |
| Singer whose 2010 debut album Lights entered the UK charts at No 1 | Ellie Goulding |
| Small pipe on the side or roof of many houses | boiler flue |
| Sport named after a Warwickshire school | RUGBY |
| The fact-obsessed school board superintendent in Hard Times | Thomas Gradgrind |
| The Girls of ____ is a Muriel Spark novel about hard times in Kensington in 1945 | slender means |
| The snowflake genus | LEUCOJUM |
| The sum of four consecutive primes, the first being 193 | eight hundred |
| Thomas Hardy poem about the evening chorus of birds | Proud Songsters |
| Unleavened bread eaten during Passover | MATZO |
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