The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 369

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Clues Answers
“November’s sky is ____ and drear, / November’s leaf is red and sear” (Walter Scott) CHILL
“Tilling and grazing are the two ____ by which France is fed” (Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully) BREASTS
“Vast expanses of frustration, boredom, sadness and ____” (Caitlin Moran, describing lockdown in February 2021) ENNUI
1982 Roald Dahl book made into a 2016 Disney film The BFG
A basic technique used with this toy is the sleeper yo-yo
A one-word anagram of GENERAL ENLARGE
A small kind of sawbill duck SMEW
A system or plan used if no other arrangement can be made BACKSTOP
A thin decorative material, or a disease of plum trees silver leaf
After wartime removal and disappearance, reconstruction of the ____ Room in the Catherine Palace, near St Petersburg was completed in 2003 AMBER
Arctic plain with permanently frozen subsoil TUNDRA
Area of Manhattan on the Hudson River west side
Canadian former snooker player noted for his natty (often white) attire Kirk Stevens
Capital of Italy’s Piedmont region TURIN
Central Asian floor covering illustrated on a national flag Turkoman rug
Common intertidal edible gastropod PERIWINKLE
Female protagonist of Wuthering Heights Catherine Earnshaw
Football club based at the Johan Cruyff Arena AJAX
Former name for the capital of Kazakhstan alma-ata
Former nation, consisting of 15 republics for its last 35 years USSR
Free from obstruction CLEAR
French toast a votre sante
Genus of plants with latex-like sap and flowers with no petals or nectar EUPHORBIA
Gilded silver or bronze VERMEIL
Group of stars in Cancer, known as the Beehive Cluster or Manger praesepe
Clues Answers
Guadeloupe and Antigua are two of the ____ Leeward Islands
Having irises of different colours wall-eyed
Low-cost carrier whose CEO is Michael O’Leary RYANAIR
Media of expression VEHICLES
Military force formed after the Bolshevik Revolution red army
Muslim festival called Bairam in Turkey EID
Old stringed instrument similar to the dulcimer PSALTERY
One associated with the command “Stand and deliver!” HIGHWAYMAN
Popular slogan of lawyers in TV commercials No win no fee
Programming language used to handle database information sql
Receptacles for nautical compasses BINNACLES
Singer given two Grammy nominations after the release of her 1989 debut album Affection Lisa Stansfield
Singer of Britain’s first winning Eurovision Song Contest entry Sandie Shaw
Small open aircraft typically used for recreational purposes MICROLIGHT
Statement of belief adopted at a church council in AD325 Nicene Creed
Strong smells associated with cooking nidors
Sweet rice wine used as a flavouring in Japanese cuisine MIRIN
That which assessed a candidate’s ability in a field aptitude test
That which, cryptically, might be called an eaves dropper ICICLE
The “Goldfinger” singer, as of January 2000 Dame Shirley Bassey
The study of ethics moral philosophy
This was first used in the Tour de France in 1919, sixteen years after the first tour yellow jersey
Those who attack or defend online information systems cyberwarriors
Tippi Hedren’s daughter, also an actress Melanie Griffith
Writer of Boys From the Blackstuff Alan Bleasdale