The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 372

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“Dewey defeats Truman” was a famously wrong ____ banner headline
2005 film based on a fictional character called Nurse Matilda Nanny McPhee
A grave 16 inches long in a Lincolnshire church is purportedly that of someone with the same name as this folklore character Tom Thumb
Alaska’s longest river, with its source in Canada YUKON
Anglicised name for one summit in the Welsh Three Peaks Challenge Cader Idris
Another name for “stage left” prompt side
Australian actor Leo ____’s best-known role was Horace Rumpole mckern
Bavaria’s third-largest city after Munich and Nuremberg AUGSBURG
Characters like Sancho Panza and Doctor Watson SIDEKICKS
City called Karl-Marx-Stadt between 1953 and 1990 CHEMNITZ
Collector of jumpers, and Dictionary Corner appearances on Countdown Gyles Brandreth
Creature with tibias but no fibulas INSECT
Don McLean’s cover of this 1961 Roy Orbison hit was a UK No 1 in 1980 CRYING
Dutch city where DAF Trucks is based EINDHOVEN
Entertainer whose act often included the egg and bag trick Tommy Cooper
Food often served with pickled ginger and wasabi SUSHI
For a particular purpose only ad hoc
For the last five weeks of his life, ____ Forkbeard was king of Denmark and England sweyn
Genus of sap-sucking 37Ds APHIS
Germanic name for various cured pork products SPECK
Governing in the style of Papa Doc or Idi Amin DESPOTIC
Hidden from view OBSCURED
Horace Rumpole’s chambers were located in the ____ Inner Temple
In Bond films, the entrance to this racecourse has represented the airports of St Petersburg and Shanghai ASCOT
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In literary usage, to see ESPY
Nocturnal devotion, especially on the eve of a church festival VIGIL
Ohio is the “____” Buckeye State
On January 1, 2021, the French departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin became the European Collectivity of ____ ALSACE
Poet whose inspiration was once interrupted by “a person on business from Porlock” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Someone waiting around aimlessly LOITERER
That which is indicated in on road signs by numbers and % or : GRADIENT
The discovery of DNA’s double helix was a major achievement in this field molecular biology
The first ____ in Handel’s Messiah is “Comfort ye my people” RECITATIVE
The grains of Avena sativa OATS
The inventors of Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper and Pepsi-Cola all worked as ____ PHARMACISTS
The only Swede to win Olympic high jump gold, in 2004 Stefan Holm
The tibiofemoral and patellofemoral joints KNEE
The ____ is death while fighting for a principle or country supreme sacrifice
To be involved in many and various activities have a finger in every pie
To get rid of something or someone unwanted JETTISON
To persuade by deception or flattery INVEIGLE
To remain not out throughout a whole innings carry one's bat
Tomas de ____ was Spain’s first Grand Inquisitor TORQUEMADA
Undeservedly neglected people or things cinderellas
What “Max and Keira’s law” makes everyone in England unless they opt out organ donor
When a disease is ____, it has no clear signs or symptoms subclinical
Word that can follow “blow” or “bubble” OVER
____ butter is a 4oz packet, in American cookery a stick of