The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 128

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“Bonxie” is an informal name for the predatory great ____ SKUA
“Great men are not always ____” (Book of Job) WISE
“I like work […]. I love to keep it by me; the idea of ____ it nearly breaks my heart” (Jerome K Jerome) getting rid of
“The most beautiful sound I ever heard” (Tony, in West Side Story) MARIA
1960 book by Gavin Maxwell about an otter called Mijbil Ring of Bright Water
1973 single written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan Stuck in the Middle with You
1979 live album by Cliff Richard and The Shadows Thank You Very Much
2011 No 1 single by Jessie J Price Tag
A German motorway AUTOBAHN
A quahog, for example CLAM
A young herring SILD
Acca ____, adoptive mother of Romulus and Remus LARENTIA
Actor whose roles include that of Hawkeye in the 1970 film M*A*S*H Donald Sutherland
Actress who played Mary Jane Watson in three Spider-Man films Kirsten Dunst
Actress who won three consecutive Bafta awards for playing detective Jane Tennison Helen Mirren
American baseball team originally called the Baltimore Orioles New York Yankees
At an audition on January 1, 1962, this record company chose Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, rejecting the Beatles DECCA
Author of The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
Beliefs, customs, etc, usually preserved in oral tradition FOLKLORE
Billy ____ was the lead singer in the 1970s punk band Generation X IDOL
Country whose capital is La Habana CUBA
Cursed nymph of Greek myth who could only speak by repeating the last words spoken to her ECHO
Detective who first appeared in the 1987 novel Knots and Crosses Inspector Rebus
Device used by police to impede vehicle movement STINGER
Director of Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video John Landis
Disease sometimes called petit mal or grand mal EPILEPSY
English bantamweight boxer who won gold at the 2012 Olympics Luke Campbell
English equivalent of “per annum” a year
Clues Answers
Ernest ____ is regarded as the father of nuclear physics RUTHERFORD
Fictional character who has on-off relationships with Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver bridget jones
Frederik ____ completed Arthur C Clarke’s The Last Theorem shortly before Clarke died in 2008 POHL
Freshwater protozoon, with a slipper-like shape PARAMECIUM
German band who recorded ten albums in their Masters of Chant series GREGORIAN
Gloucestershire railway station immortalised in a 1917 poem by Edward Thomas ADLESTROP
In America, this is sold by a haberdasher MENSWEAR
Informally, an isolated area in the USA the boondocks
Is uncooperative, or exaggerates the importance of plays up
IT problem which may turn out to be a bug ISSUE
Label identifying each device attached to the internet IP address
Like a leotard or wet suit skin-tight
Native islander in Alaska or Kamchatka ALEUT
Noble gas in the decay chain of uranium RADON
One who may be sitting in an asana YOGI
One who studies late at night lucubrator
Playhouse in London’s Haymarket Theatre Royal
Professions of the members of a fictional social club associated with host Colin Crompton Wheeltappers and Shunters
Russell Brand’s rock star character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall Aldous Snow
Singer whose albums include Colour My World and Downtown Petula Clark
Site of a 1995 massacre during the Bosnian War srebrenica
The first capital city of the Kingdom of Italy TURIN
The older of Isaac’s twin sons in the Old Testament ESAU
The plant cannabis sativa MARIJUANA
The world’s first vertical drop roller coaster, at Alton Towers OBLIVION
To make someone aware or familiar ACQUAINT
To preclude in law ESTOP
____ addresses are speeches by newly elected heads of the five ancient universities of Scotland RECTORIAL