The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 374

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“On the ____” means in a state of alertness qui vive
12:50 ten to one
1983 film directed by and starring Barbra Streisand YENTL
A cold leek and potato soup VICHYSSOISE
A family tree STEMMA
Actress who starred alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan Rosanna Arquette
After Paris (1924) and London (1948), the third European city to host the summer Olympics for a second time ATHENS
Another name for a woodchuck GROUNDHOG
Antipodean politician who, at 37, became the world’s youngest female head of government Jacinda Ardern
As a musical instruction, becoming slower, and often louder too ALLARGANDO
Cereal and other crop disease marked by powdery black spores SMUT
City in Washington state which hosted Expo ’74, the first environmentally themed world’s fair SPOKANE
Disease caused by thiamine deficiency BERIBERI
Elizabeth Allen is “The ____” in a series of four novels by Enid Blyton Naughtiest Girl
English equivalent of the Italian zucchero SUGAR
Four of the ten tracks on this Lightning Seeds album were issued as singles JOLLIFICATION
Gabriel and Raphael, for example ARCHANGELS
Game show featured in the 1992 film White Men Can’t Jump JEOPARDY
Grange Hill character, played by Todd Carty, who was given his own spin-off series Tucker Jenkins
In fiction, Melville’s Captain Ahab or Dickens’s Silas Wegg AMPUTEE
In old military slang, a kit inspection rag-fair
Jazz musician called the “Maharaja of the keyboard” by Duke Ellington oscar peterson
Largest island of the Inner Hebrides SKYE
Lover of Hiawatha in Longfellow’s epic poem MINNEHAHA
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Lychnis coronaria, a popular garden plant with silvery foliage and usually bright pink flowers rose campion
Mary Lennox is the main character of this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett the secret garden
Mix of raw vegetables served as an hors d’oeuvre CRUDITES
New Mexico city where Microsoft was founded in 1975 ALBUQUERQUE
Nigeria’s capital until 1991 LAGOS
Non-believing atheistical
Orkney and Shetland are Scotland’s ____ Northern Isles
Pietro ____ composed the 1890 opera Cavalleria Rusticana MASCAGNI
Singer whose most recent non-compilation album Caution was released in 2018 Mariah Carey
The colourful badlands of Arizona Painted Desert
The first études written for public performance were ____s piano piece
The mafia’s code of silence OMERTA
The misspeaking character in The Rivals by Sheridan Mrs Malaprop
The only American state bird which is a domestic breed rhode island red
The ____ Star is a 1970 David Bowie single, released as a follow-up to Space Oddity PRETTIEST
To go before, in time or order ANTECEDE
To signify or foreshadow BETOKEN
US name for a card game using a layout of sequences, called “domino” or “parliament” in the UK fan-tan
Vacation centred on conservation ECOTOUR
Walter Scott novel which shares its name with a whisky cocktail Rob Roy
Wicksteed Park, which includes one of Britain’s oldest amusement parks, is near this Northamptonshire town KETTERING
Wood often used to make bassoons and the backs of violins MAPLE
____ and Mark Frost were co-creators of Twin Peaks David Lynch
____ omnes is an instruction for all players to leave the stage EXEUNT