The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 169

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Clues Answers
“Against the watch” — a French name for a time trial contre la montre
“He is very foolish who aims at ____ all the world and his father” (Jean de la Fontaine) SATISFYING
2002 animated film featuring a sloth called Sid and a mammoth called Manny ice Age
A “penny bun” or similar mushroom bolete
A cell with an axon and dendrites NEURONE
A primate formerly called “pygmy chimpanzee” BONOBO
An English version of the “pois rouges” on the jersey of the 30A’s leading climber polka dots
An ironical description of decision-making in one's wisdom
Another name for a lapwing PEEWIT
Another name for the meat product kielbasa Polish sausage
Anthropomorphic bovine seen on a TV game show, 1981-95 BULLY
Attire for the most special occasions formal clothes
Capital city of China’s Hubei province WUHAN
Cattle herded together for a journey DROVE
China’s currency since 1948 RENMINBI
Comedy film starring Paul Newman as a rogue whose long-neglected son returns for Thanksgiving Nobody's Fool
Doris Day’s first film role was in Romance ____, about a cruise to Rio on the high seas
Egyptian hydrological project aswan dam
Event first held in 1903 to boost the sales of a sporting newspaper tour de france
Eventual winner Octave Lapize’s description of the 30A’s organisers as murderers, shouted at them as he led its first ascent of the Col d’Aubisque in 1910 ASSASSINS
Fairground throwing game HOOPLA
French painter Antoine ____ transformed the baroque style to the more naturalistic rococo WATTEAU
French transport vehicle, or a group riding together to beat the elimination time for a 30A mountain stage AUTOBUS
French winner of the 30A in 1983 and 1984 laurent Fignon
Clues Answers
Hindi term for a long stick used as a weapon LATHI
Howard ____ composed music for TV programmes including Red Dwarf and The Vicar of Dibley GOODALL
In 1949, Fausto ___ was the first person to win the 30A and Giro d’Italia in the same year coppi
Informally, a party currently electing a new leader Lib Dems
Ironic alternative to “Purity of Essence” as the explanation for the POE recall code identified by Captain Mandrake in Doctor Strangelove peace on earth
Jeremy ____ was Channel 4’s first chief executive, and later the Royal Opera House’s general director ISAACS
John ____ illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice books TENNIEL
Magnetic field measurement unit in the CGS system OERSTED
Matter thrown out, especially by volcanoes EJECTA
Musical instrument once sold as the Clarke London Flageolet tin whistle
Neutral, in relation to government APOLITICAL
Saint ____ is traditionally regarded as the founder of Glasgow MUNGO
See 7A eight seconds
Smelly ODORIFEROUS
Supposedly a spirit, often in animal form, assisting a witch FAMILIAR
Thalictrum flavum is the “common” version of this ranunculaceous plant with clusters of small flowers meadow rue
The roller of a typewriter PLATEN
The use of ____s by the police is controlled by the Freedom of Information act passed in 2000 NOTEBOOK
To ____ something is to do it enthusiastically go to town on
Wavered between possible choices OSCILLATED
You cannot use this plant to make textiles bog cotton
____ Fame’s first No 1 hit was Yeh, Yeh in 1964 GEORGIE
____ won the 1989 30A, beating 6D by 16A after a final 5D Greg LeMond
____ won the 30A for the fifth time in 1985 bernard Hinault