The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 145

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1936 poem and documentary film about a postal train Night Mail
1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat about the crew of HMS Compass Rose during the Second World War The Cruel Sea
1960s French cinematic movement with a simple underrated style, and sometimes dogmatically political content Nouvelle Vague
A Braeburn or Tydeman’s Late Orange is such a fruit Winter apple
A business deal, or a set of related changes to a database TRANSACTION
A female foreigner, in French etrangere
A nickname for Melbourne or Sydney, first used by Australian aborigines The Big Smoke
A preface or preliminary matter Avant-propos
A proposed slogan, “Browns, Seasons, Thickens In One” was supposedly the source of this product’s name BISTO
A quack CHARLATAN
Argol, the acidic deposit on the inside of a bottle of port CRUST
Asian river on the banks of which the ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa flourished between 2600BC and 1900BC INDUS
Athenian courtesan who induced Alexander the Great to set fire to the palace of the Persian kings at Persepolis THAIS
Avoider of military service, such as Donald Trump Draft dodger
Breed of large white beef cattle CHAROLAIS
Cambridge Footlights star who later played Patsy’s mother in Absolutely Fabulous Eleanor Bron
Canadian prime minister after whom Montreal’s international airport is named Pierre Trudeau
Cavalry soldier fighting with a curved single-edged sword SABREUR
Charles ____ directed the 1953 film version of 34 Down frend
Claudio ____, Chilean pianist famed for his absorbing master classes ARRAU
Composer born in Dresden (a district of Stoke-on-Trent) Havergal Brian
Court with a reputation for harshness, abolished in 1641 Star Chamber
David ____ was the tenth Doctor to travel in the Tardis on BBC television TENNANT
Display stands with shelves for small objects or ornaments ETAGERES
Edward ____ wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ALBEE
Form of pasta traditionally served with ragu bolognese TAGLIATELLE
Frederick ____ & Co, publisher of the Observer’s series of books and Beatrix Potter’s tales WARNE
From the Latin for “shoe”, another name for slipperwort CALCEOLARIA
Germany’s northern state which borders Denmark Schleswig-Holstein
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Godfrey ____, “arguably the best wicket keeper the game has ever seen” according to Wisden EVANS
Hic ____, “here lies” on a tombstone inscription JACET
His latest (2018) novel is Middle England Jonathan Coe
In an orchestra, these instruments are sometime seen both left and right of the conductor VIOLINS
Inhabitants of an ancient kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, maybe living in Assur or Nineveh ASSYRIANS
It helps to maintain one’s dignity or prestige face-saver
Lives in basic and unaccustomed circumstances Roughs it
Meaning of the “clearway” road sign No Stopping
Numbers such as 512, 2197 and 8000 CUBES
One of Tom Stoppard’s “dead” tragicomic characters ROSENCRANTZ
One quarter Twenty-five percent
Pen y Fan is the highest mountain in this Welsh national park Brecon Beacons
Peninsula forming the western part of County Galway CONNEMARA
Pictorial logic puzzles also called griddlers nonograms
Quick recovery wish Get well soon
Seat of Florida State University since 1857 TALLAHASSEE
Soft fresh cheese with the consistency of thick yoghurt Fromage frais
Suburb of Brussels where Erasmus lived, or Belgium’s most successful football team in European competitions anderlecht
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Star Wars
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band’s Death Cab for ____ was an Elvis Presley parody CUTIE
The capital of France’s Aveyron department rodez
The chief Norse gods dwelling in Asgard AESIR
The smallest European rodent, for which old tennis balls with a drilled hole make good nests Harvest mouse
The ____, 1 Across’s portrait of the 1970s Rotters' Club
Thomas ____, whose Summer’s Lost Will and Testament contains the song Spring, the Sweet Spring NASHE
What a player leading 6-5 and 40-30 has in tennis Set point
Winner of the 1957 Nobel prize for literature Albert Camus
Writes down music NOTATES
____ Arantes do Nascimento is better known as Pelé EDSON