The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 373

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“Crazy Eyes” character played by Uzo Aduba in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black Suzanne Warren
“Golden Arches” boneless pork sandwich launched in 1981 MCRIB
“He was ____d and rejected of men” (Isaiah 53:3) DESPISE
“I don’t know whether I like it, but it’s what I ____” (Vaughan Williams, on his fourth symphony) MEANT
“She was a ____ but still lovely woman of twenty-seven” (F Scott Fitzgerald, in “a line which certain people will not let me forget”) FADED
“You climbed up on the roof / Roof of the world / You were pulling up the ____ / Loping down the mountain” (Wild Man, Kate Bush) rhododendrons
“____, and we shall soon laugh no longer” (Belloc, The Path to Rome) time passes
1984 debut solo album by Level 42 bassist Mark King INFLUENCES
1984 George Michael single with the line “To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind” Careless Whisper
2002 film by Guy Ritchie, starring his then wife Madonna Swept Away
A provincial governor of ancient Rome PROCONSUL
An authoritative data source in computing master file
An ____ cordiale was arrived at by Britain and France in 1904 ENTENTE
Ancient Central American civilisation which developed a highly accurate calendar system MAYA
Before relegation, ____ had the home ground closest to the River Mersey of any football league club Stockport County
Best-known product of Hormel Foods, based in Minnesota SPAM
Births in which the baby’s buttocks or feet emerge first breech deliveries
Black-eyed ____ is another name for the garden plant Rudbeckia fulgida SUSAN
Central female character of Middlemarch by George Eliot Dorothea Brooke
Cold, to an Italian freddo
Cosmetic which can imitate periorbital hyperpigmentation EYESHADOW
Designer of the first “safety elevator” Elisha Otis
Dish created by a Greek immigrant in Ontario in 1962 Hawaiian Pizza
Five ____ in Dorset was the Comic Strip parody of Enid Blyton shown on Channel 4’s first night in 1982 go mad
Clues Answers
Formally, especially in law, on an individual basis ad personam
Former North Sea inlet of the Netherlands Zuider Zee
Hans ____ is best-known as the co-inventor of a device used to measure radiation GEIGER
Informally, “I think this is logically obvious” do the maths
Leaning attraction of Italy, to locals Torre di Pisa
Link is the main protagonist of this video game franchise The Legend of Zelda
Loosely, an age beyond recollection; in law, before 1189 time immemorial
Lynne Perrie’s Coronation Street character until 1988 Ivy Tilsley
Mary Kay and Johnny (1947) was the first ____ on US TV SITCOM
North American rodent resembling a beaver in both habitat and appearance MUSKRAT
Part of a plant, often used in potpourri orris root
Removals of monarchs dethronings
Sculptor of the bronze David in the Bargello Museum in Florence DONATELLO
South African vultures aasvogels
Station between Upton Park and Barking on the London Underground East Ham
The “American antelope” which can reach 55mph PRONGHORN
The 1.668m ____ gauge is the widest one used by European trains IBERIAN
The card game played by Gaylord Ravenal in Showboat FARO
The kind of fencing sword used in the modern pentathlon EPEE
The ____ was sometimes known as the Jesuit Treason gunpowder plot
To lightly cook vegetables in boiling water BLANCH
Vegetables known as zucchini in America COURGETTES
Virgule is another name for this symbol SLASH
Weather patterns creating more rain than usual in the Americas El Ninos