The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 248

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Clues Answers
“I do not literally paint that ____, but the emotion it produces upon me” (Matisse) TABLE
“I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing ____” (King Lear) ARGUMENTS
“It is not ____ you’re wearing out, / But human creatures’ lives” (Thomas Hood, Song of the Shirt) LINEN
1974 single by Paul McCartney and Wings, named after McCartney’s black labrador JET
1985 epic war film based on King Lear, its name being Japanese for “chaos” RAN
2020 Dua Lipa album which was No 1 in 12 countries Future Nostalgia
A greyhound emerges from a ____ at the start of a race TRAP
A Hindu faith teacher or mystic MAHARISHI
A tea-like infusion of herbs or flowers TISANE
A ____ curve is formed by a cord hanging from two points CATENARY
Antelope of southern Africa, normally with slender white vertical stripes and (males only) spiral horns NYALA
Archaically, that which may ring to signal danger larum-bell
Author of the 1998 novel About a Boy Nick Hornby
Bacterial infection, resistant to antibiotics, which spread outside healthcare settings in the 1990s MRSA
Beta blocker used to treat hypertension and migraine timolol
British general who died in the hour of victory when capturing Quebec from the French in 1759 James Wolfe
Capital of Georgia TBILISI
Cartoon film seen as the debut of Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie
City on the Moselle, thought to be Germany’s oldest TRIER
Clothing retailer which overtook Marks & Spencer to become the UK’s largest in 2012 NEXT
County town of Tipperary CLONMEL
Description of Africa popularised in the title of an 1878 book by Henry Morton Stanley Dark Continent
Drupe fruits with flesh firmly attached to the pit clingstones
Early 21st-century colloquialism, meaning “completely” TOTES
Edible fruit of trees in the genus Corylus, part of the birch family HAZELNUT
Clues Answers
Footballer whose Liverpool and England captaincies were followed by one on A Question of Sport Emlyn Hughes
Form of baccarat enjoyed by James Bond Chemin de fer
Gary Busey starred in the 1978 biographical film The ____ Buddy Holly Story
Generic name for a pet dog, from Latin “I trust” FIDO
Genus whose only living member is the edible dormouse glis
George Eliot novel subtitled The Weaver of Raveloe Silas Marner
Goalkeeper with two Scotland caps, signed by Rangers in June 2020 after two seasons with Sunderland Jon McLaughlin
Iconic space vessel of the Star Wars films Millennium Falcon
In law, actual evidence that a crime has been committed corpus delicti
Informally, a person whose identity is unconfirmed A N Other
Inhabitant of a region now comprising parts of northern Sudan and southern Egypt NUBIAN
London venue with the UK’s second largest pipe organ Royal Albert Hall
Masonry, typically used for facing, of square-cut stones ASHLAR
Name of an area in both central London and Manhattan SOHO
Norwegian city, home of the world’s northernmost medieval cathedral TRONDHEIM
Of a part of the body, swollen, or of literature, pompous TUMID
Saris mainly made in Bangladesh’s capital city dhakais
Signalling device seen on some old vehicles trafficator
Sleight of hand LEGERDEMAIN
Stand-up whose 2017 tour was called An’ Another Fing Micky Flanagan
Surname of Keith who formed a prog rock group in 1970 with Greg and Carl EMERSON
The holy of holies sanctum sanctorum
The ____ is a 1992 satirical film about Hollywood, starring Tim Robbins and Greta Scacchi PLAYER
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? was a 1977 hit for ____ Racing Cars
____ at coastguard stations may warn of high winds storm cones