The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 387

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Clues Answers
… “____ between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future” (Winston Churchill, in his Finest Hour speech) If we open a quarrel
“Christmas Eve 9st 4, alcohol units 1 ____ glass of sherry, cigarettes 2 but no fun as out of window” (Bridget Jones’s Diary) MEASLY
“Sudden the rain of gold and heart’s first ease / Traced under trees by the ____ light of sundown” (Cecil Day Lewis) ELDRITCH
10 newtons MEGADYNE
1912 Conan Doyle novel featuring zoologist Professor George Edward Challenger The Lost World
1957 film based on an event in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 Gunfight At The OK Corral
A cave-dweller TROGLODYTE
Actress whose roles include that of Evil-Lyn in the film version of Masters of the Universe Meg Foster
Backup dancer who has regularly performed with Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Tina Turner Ashley Everett
Behavioural stimulus which makes avoidance of a situation more likely negative reinforcement
Bicycle gear which moves the chain across sprockets DERAILLEUR
Crescent-shaped LUNATE
Device used by guitarists which has the same effect as a movable bridge CAPO
Few and far between SPARSE
Fictional weapon which first appeared in 1977 LIGHTSABER
Flies into a rage, colloquially goes ballistic
French footballer who has played for Manchester United, Juventus, Manchester United and (currently) Juventus Paul Pogba
Full range of colours displayable on a computer monitor GAMUT
Genus of tropical grasses which includes rice ORYZA
Iconic Coronation Street character played by Pat Phoenix Elsie Tanner
In full, the country bordered by Guinea and Liberia Republic of Sierra Leone
Many residents of ____ speak a dialect called Llanito GIBRALTAR
Clues Answers
McVitie’s biscuits launched in 1985 HOBNOBS
Metropolitan county including part of the Peak District national park South Yorkshire
Microwave amplifier often used in atomic clocks MASER
Mike and the Mechanics single, partly paraphrasing … The Living Years
Parisian theatre founded by Louis XIV in 1680 Comedie-Francaise
Pestilential or vexatious plaguey
Presenter of the Today programme on Radio 4, 1975-93 Brian Redhead
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the central character in The ____ IDIOT
Private detective played by Richard Roundtree in three feature films and seven TV films in the 1970s SHAFT
Range of probabilities in which the only values of the random variable are 0 and 1 Bernoulli distribution
Someone who studies trees DENDROLOGIST
Steals fruit from gardens or orchards scrumps
Support staff, as it were CRUTCH
Test with a drunkometer (spelling with Z) breathalyze
The company formerly called Facebook, Inc META
The heroine of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ODETTE
The name of this gull is an imitation of its cry KITTIWAKE
The radial supports of a wheel SPOKES
Unfamiliar with new to
US coins first minted in 1921, the last of their denomination to be struck in silver peace dollars
Wealthy cartoon character played by Macaulay Culkin in a 1994 comedy film Richie Rich
Wrapped garments common in the Malay archipelago SARONGS