The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 085

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“… if we desire to secure peace, […] it must be known that we are ____ ready for war” (George Washington) at all times
“And over the ____s […] that were in the low plain was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash” (1 Chronicles 27:28) olive tree
“For the love of ____” is the correct version of a common quotation from the First Epistle to Timothy money is the root of all evil
1929 murder of seven members of a Chicago gang St Valentine's Day Massacre
1949 film with nine roles played by Alec Guinness Kind Hearts And Coronets
1986 BBC TV series (later a book) in which Beryl Bainbridge looked at the lives of families in a divided nation Forever England
A drinking vessel often used as a sporting trophy loving cup
A figure of early Christianity, sometimes identified as the son of Alphaeus James the Less
A line on a map joining places of equal temperature ISOTHERM
A mineral like limestone, and a Triumph car of the 1970s DOLOMITE
A pair of one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both set in the same Bournemouth hotel Separate Tables
A semisolid lump DOLLOP
A simple six-holed woodwind instrument penny whistle
According to the King James Bible, the patriarch ____ did not die but was “translated” ENOCH
Beatles song by John Lennon, about his mother JULIA
Britain’s longest ____ crosses the Humber suspension bridge
British city with a real rather than fictional Albert Square MANCHESTER
British surgeon who pioneered the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic Joseph Lister
Chief Inspector Roderick ____ appears in all the detective novels of Ngaio Marsh ALLEYN
Country house and deer park near Sevenoaks Knole
Czech Republic’s second-largest city, and Moravia’s largest BRNO
Detective fiction author who wrote The History of Spiritualism in 1926 Arthur Conan Doyle
Event such as Red Nose Day or Children in Need TELETHON
Garden plant introduced to Europe from China in the early 19th century tea rose
Having an intestine separate from the body’s outer wall enterate
Having, or seeming to have, windows or similar features fenestrate
In East Anglia, strong beer; more generally, a drink containing beaten egg NOG
Incentives to join companies golden hellos
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Legume used to make tofu and tempeh soya bean
London’s Parliament Hill is a popular location for ____ kite-flying
Make an optimistic (or possibly pessimistic) guess OVERESTIMATE
Mollie ____ played Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served? Sugden
Nation where 1,000 baizas make a rial OMAN
Norman and Sir are the main characters in this Ronald Harwood play The Dresser
One who denies or opposes NAYSAYER
Partial australopithecine skeleton, found in Ethiopia in 1974 LUCY
Person born in a period of up to 18 years starting in 1946 baby boomer
Rosa ____ is possibly the most famous bus passenger in history PARKS
Since 2013, nationality of Tina Turner SWISS
Skimble-scamble, all of a ramble INCOHERENT
Someone who knowingly helps someone who has committed an arrestable offence accessory after the fact
Spanish director Pedro ____’s first film to gain international attention was Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ALMODOVAR
Star Wars character who is 900 years old when he dies YODA
The “three baskets” of Buddhist scripture tripitaka
The poet Federico Garcia ____ was killed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War LORCA
The second to speak of two characters in Through the Looking Glass, often depicted as 24 TWEEDLEDEE
The state song of Connecticut Yankee Doodle
The venue for Crufts dog show since 1991 NEC
To speak proudly about boast of
Two people are ____ when directly facing each other to fight or argue toe-to-toe
US state with “Famous Potatoes” on its licence plates IDAHO
Very small and greatly reduced copy of text or an image MICRODOT
Where livestock are kept while being fattened for market FEEDLOT
Worldwide discussion group set up in 1980, with groups including rec.puzzles.crosswords and alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die USENET
____ may be monozygotic or dizygotic TWINS
____ Reader is free software used for displaying PDF files ACROBAT