The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 286

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Clues Answers
“And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, / Make the sage ____, and the serious smile” (Pope, translating Homer) FROLIC
“Politics […] are nothing but corruptions […] for which reason courts are so ____ with politics” (Jonathan Swift) OVERRUN
“We will have ____ and things, and fine array; / And kiss me, Kate; we will be married o’ Sunday” (Taming of the Shrew) RINGS
“Young love is ____, but it needs to get around” (Ovid, Ars Amatoria) ERRANT
“____’s sons are brothers in distress; / A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!” (Robert Burns, A Winter Night) AFFLICTION
’Tis was the sequel to this 1996 Frank McCourt memoir Angela's Ashes
1989 No 1 single by the Bangles Eternal Flame
A description of a very disadvantageous situation lose-lose
A lubricating pump grease gun
A polished but not faceted gemstone, usually opaque CABOCHON
A wild ass of central Asia ONAGER
A ____ portrait depicts someone down to the waist half-length
An old technical name for malnutrition cacotrophy
An open tart, or the metal disc which is stamped to produce a coin FLAN
British actress who starred alongside John Krasinski in the horror film A Quiet Place Emily Blunt
Charles ____ was the cartoonist who created Snoopy SCHULZ
Choreographer who directed films including Cabaret (1972) and All That Jazz Bob Fosse
Edmond ____’s 1897 play was the first fictionalisation of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac ROSTAND
Embryonic structure from which the brain and spinal cord develop neural tube
England’s third-largest protected landscape The Cotswolds
In 1919, a post-war treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at this former French royal residence Palace of Versailles
In a medieval university, the study of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music for an MA Quadrivium
In American football, this scores six points TOUCHDOWN
In Asia, a single-passenger cart pulled (or now often pedalled) by one person RICKSHAW
Clues Answers
In biology, the taxonomic rank between class and family ORDER
In mainly literary use, the eye ORB
Largest animal of the Anura 7D goliath frog
Loading lines on ships are named after this politician Samuel Plimsoll
Of music, using conventional keys and harmony TONAL
One with feelings and attitudes like those of another soul brother
Peak in Rio de Janeiro which features in the James Bond film Moonraker Sugarloaf Mountain
Proprietary drug sometimes taken instead of aspirin NUROFEN
Proprietary name for the stimulant methylphenidate RITALIN
Region which should logically include Somalia East Africa
Road safety campaign featuring David Prowse, who later played Darth Vader, as a superhero figure Green Cross Code
Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals DIANA
Sark’s ____ was its judge, 1675-2013 SENESCHAL
Sheridan’s 1779 satirical play about plays The Critic
Short-term government borrowing, mainly using treasury bills floating debt
Slang used by a particular group ARGOT
South coast resort with two funicular cliff railways HASTINGS
Swiss melted cheese dish, often with potatoes and pickles RACLETTE
The capital of this French department is Le Puy-en-Velay Haute-Loire
The official language of Cambodia KHMER
Treatment intended to alleviate menopausal symptoms HRT
____ played Nero in BBC2’s 1976 version of I, Claudius Christopher Biggins
____ Rock, in the Firth of Forth, has the world’s largest single-island colony of northern gannets BASS
____ was a presenter on ITN News at Ten, 1967-79 Reginald Bosanquet