The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 156

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“A leader who doesn’t ____ before he sends his nation into battle isn’t fit to be a leader” (Golda Meir) HESITATE
“Mark where his carnage and his ____ cease! / He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace” (Byron) CONQUESTS
1963 film about fictional rugby league footballer Frank Machin This Sporting Life
A Ken Loach film; character played by Jennifer Lien in Star Trek: Voyager KES
A two-masted sailing boat KETCH
A wine grower or merchant VINTNER
According to a 2013 survey, one who gives American children an average of $3.70 per “item” tooth fairy
Andalusia’s second most populous city MALAGA
Athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin Jesse Owens
Band whose debut single (1978) was Take Me, I’m Yours SQUEEZE
Beat it! SKEDADDLE
Broadcaster who created That Was The Week That Was Ned Sherrin
Building offering access to computer equipment for those in a rural area telecottage
Comic opera whose central character has four daughters — Mabel, Edith, Kate, and Isabel The Pirates of Penzance
Consider something at length chew it over
Euphuism was the distinctive style of Elizabethan writer and playwright John ____ LYLY
Eva’s henpecked husband in several Tom Sharpe novels WILT
Form of social protest used in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s hunger march
Fort William is at the northeast end of ____ Loch Linnhe
Gold or silver coin once used in Europe DUCAT
Ian ____ fronted Echo and the Bunnymen, 1978-88 mcculloch
In 2006 ____ won the best actress Oscar winner for Walk the Line Reese Witherspoon
In Greek myth, soothsayer who introduced the worship of Dionysus melampus
Clues Answers
In US criminal law, a plea accepting conviction but not admitting guilt no contest
Informally, a handgun GAT
Innkeeper who appears in four Shakespeare plays Mistress Quickly
Japanese musical instrument, usually with 13 strings KOTO
Largest city of Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Listening secretly EARWIGGING
One who tends the fire on a steam train or ship STOKER
Poet whose works include The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins
Restaurant in which wine is traditionally served in a decanter rather than a bottle TRATTORIA
Siberia’s largest city NOVOSIBIRSK
Sixties band still fronted by Eric Burdon The Animals
Someone with permanent and absolute tenure of land FREEHOLDER
Spanish-Venezuelan female tennis player who became world No 1 in 2017 Garbine Muguruza
The Atomium in Brussels was built for ____ 58 EXPO
The golden ____ is an ornamental fish normally kept in outdoor ponds ORFE
The Jewish feast of Purim celebrates this Persian queen ESTHER
The most populous island in the US state of Hawaii OAHU
Type of flag associated with republicanism TRICOLOUR
Waterside ornamental plant with very large leaves GUNNERA
Waves running directly against a ship’s course head sea
Winnie-the-Pooh character whose favourite food is thistles EEYORE
____, tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838 is a painting by Turner The Fighting Temeraire