The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 189

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“In deep ____ there is no place for sentimentality” (William S Burroughs) SADNESS
“No language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘____’ (The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul) as pretty as an airport
1993 Crowded House album whose most successful UK single was Locked Out Together Alone
2003 Ben Elton musical based on Rod Stewart’s music Tonight's the Night
A female sheep EWE
A functional unit of the kidney NEPHRON
A German river flowing through a city called Frankfurt ODER
A headword in a dictionary LEMMA
A sun-dried brick ADOBE
A ____ represents Scotland in the UK’s royal coat of arms UNICORN
Abbreviation signifying gratitude before completion of a requested task TIA
Archaic word meaning “Bless ye”, and a canticle starting “O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord” benedicite
Artistic couple with surnames Prousch and Passmore Gilbert and George
Australian model and actress, the youngest model to appear on the cover of Vogue in the USA Gemma Ward
Bernard Manning ran the ____ Club in Manchester EMBASSY
British online supermarket with no physical stores OCADO
Calf meat VEAL
Character in Arthurian legend, often described as 39D’s brother or half-brother MORDRED
Creator of detective Sam Spade Dashiell Hammett
Critic whose Unreliable Memoirs appeared in 1980 Clive James
Duke Ellington and his ____ Orchestra Cotton Club
Encrustation caused by boiling hard water LIMESCALE
Excalibur features in the stories of King Arthur, Merlin, and ____ GAWAIN
Experiences conditions seen as inferior slums it
First of two James Bond films to feature John Cleese The World Is Not Enough
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Former magnox nuclear power station on the Dengie peninsula in Essex BRADWELL
Former MP and news reporter known as “the man in the white suit” Martin Bell
German fashion designer rarely seen without black sunglasses Karl Lagerfeld
In Greek myth, Zeus became this bird to seduce Hera CUCKOO
In modern spelling, China’s “southern capital” city NANJING
In ___, one digit represents three binary digits OCTAL
In ____, operating correctly in combination SYNC
Lead singer of Radiohead Thom Yorke
Lisbeth Salander has a ____ tattoo as well as a dragon one WASP
Located on the Drava river, Slovenia’s second largest city maribor
Marvin Gaye album of 1967; Booker T album of 1981 I Want You
Mullion Cove is on the west coast of the ____ peninsula LIZARD
One who suffers death for a cause MARTYR
Post from which criminals were hung after execution GIBBET
Rugby union player who played for England in the 1880s and revolutionised half-back play Alan Rotherham
Safety device protecting drivers’ heads on Formula 1 cars HALO
System for collecting data on trade between EU member states intrastat
Table linen NAPERY
The founder of this lives to see the beneficiary receive it inter vivos trust
The River Ure becomes the ____ just over 50 miles before joining the Trent to form the Humber estuary OUSE
Theft LARCENY
Torture device, supposedly used in the Middle Ages Iron Maiden
Village with a 1950s racecourse and Grand Prix circuit AINTREE
Vinnie Jones appears in this 2006 romantic comedy film inspired by Twelfth Night She's the Man
____ was the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film appearance, in Selena Jennifer Lopez