The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 152

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'… a spirit too delicate / To act her ____ and abhorred commands' (The Tempest) EARTHY
'Enjoyment of the landscape is a ____' (David Hockney) THRILL
1987 lead single from the U2 album The Joshua Tree With Or Without You
2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
2010 action comedy film starring Bruce Willis RED
A newspaper, especially one regarded as inferior RAG
A self-replicating software virus WORM
According to a Virgil epic poem, a Trojan ancestor of the Romans AENEAS
Activity which may make use of heddles and treadles WEAVING
Anne Frank died of this disease TYPHUS
Blondie song used in the 1980 film American Gigolo Call Me
Capital of the former Duchy of Lorraine NANCY
Character spurned by John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility Marianne Dashwood
Chemical element, atomic number 33 ARSENIC
Clarified pig fat LARD
Colonel ____ was created by the cartoonist David Low BLIMP
Concentrated extract of active constituents ESSENCE
Dense brushwood of the southwestern US CHAPARRAL
England’s third smallest city by population RIPON
Extremely distressing TRAGIC
Film title shared by Buster Keaton in 1925 and the Marx Brothers in 1940 Go West
Former managing director of Homebase and chief executive of WH Smith Kate Swann
Gains an advantage over (another person) one-ups
Hardened forewings of certain insects, not used to fly ELYTRA
In Peter Pan, Captain Hook's bo'sun SMEE
Informally, a French infantryman of the First World War POILU
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ITV sci-fi fantasy series starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum Sapphire and Steel
Lead character in the Millennium novels of Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander
Lead guitarist of Steppenwolf until 1969 Michael Monarch
Liberal Party politician who served four terms as prime minister William Ewart Gladstone
Lightly scented perfumes eaux de cologne
London thoroughfare, home to Madame Tussauds Marylebone Road
Marine fish of the Labridae family WRASSE
Monty Python's Piranha brothers were based on the ____ twins KRAY
Musical instrument seen on TV in cough sweet advertising ALPHORN
Old Testament book of 21 verses, mainly about the downfall of Edom OBADIAH
On its website, the ____ claims to be 'America's longest-standing civil rights organization' NRA
Pouches formerly worn on the front of breeches CODPIECES
Sanctioned OKAYED
Sea-shell whose plural can be spelt with an unexpectedly missing 'e' CONCH
Second of TS Eliot's Four Quartets East Coker
Severe protein malnutrition often affecting newly weaned children, most common in equatorial Africa kwashiorkor
Short name for a polynucleotide with a relatively small number of nucleotides OLIGO
Star of the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac Gerard Depardieu
Sticky substance, or sentimentality GOO
The family of carpet beetles dermestidae
The Golden ____ is the first relic acquired by Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark IDOL
Third highest mountain in the world KANGCHENJUNGA
Twisting TORSION
Various early Scottish kings were buried on the island of ____ IONA
Venice's market district RIALTO
____ played Cathy in the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt Jacqueline Bisset