The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 390

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“The rudest man in Britain”, a journalist and regular 1950s Twenty Questions and What’s My Line panellist Gilbert Harding
1955 film which provided an iconic photo of Marilyn Monroe The Seven Year Itch
A wired relative of Wi-Fi LAN
A zealous environmental activist eco-warrior
Actress who played Yvette Carte-Blanche in ’Allo ’Allo! Vicki Michelle
American old west TV series which influenced the development of Star Trek wagon train
American wrestler born Terry Gene Bollea Hulk Hogan
An author’s final words ENVOI
British gymnast with an eponymous uneven bars move Beth Tweddle
British sitcom featuring flatmates Gary Strang and Tony Smart Men Behaving Badly
Captain of Australia’s 1987 Cricket World Cup-winning team Allan Border
Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk played in this jazz style BEBOP
Defended position from which a gun can be fired EMPLACEMENT
Ellis Genge or Joe Marler in recent England teams PROP
Esparto, melick, and fescue are ____ GRASSES
Expanse of land stretching from Texas to Canada Great Plains
Fourth book of the Old Testament NUMBERS
In 1976, Sawao Kato of Japan became the first person to win a second Olympic gold medal on this gymnastic apparatus parallel bars
In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw (according to The Devil’s Dictionary) APPEAL
In maths, graph theory began with Leonhard ____’s negative resolution of the Bridges of Königsberg problem EULER
Indian dish using a marinade of yoghurt and spices TIKKA
Informally, a very important person big cheese
Jewish festival in the month of Adar PURIM
Name shared by rivers of Wales (mainly) and Scotland DEE
Clues Answers
Oscar winner for his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird Gregory Peck
Pale lager with a low temperature production process ice beer
Prime Minister of Great Britain 1743-1754 Henry Pelham
Rapper who appears in the 2012 film 21 Jump Street ice cube
Saunders, Montagu, and Bristol are the three largest of the ____ South Sandwich Islands
Scottish singer whose Modern Girl and 9 to 5 singles became Top Ten hits simultaneously Sheena Easton
Short name for two offences in the Offences against the Person Act gbh
Shorter of two names for a glyceride found in fats and oils OLEIN
Skin flushing caused by dilation of dermal blood capillaries ERYTHEMA
Supplication which appears in Matthew vi,9-13 Lord's Prayer
Surreal sitcom set in Royston Vasey The League Of Gentlemen
The “you” in the lyric “I’m crossing you in style” Moon River
The capital of Libya TRIPOLI
The composition of a human population DEMOGRAPHY
The role of Sophia Alekseyevna in Russia before Ivan V and Peter I became joint tsars princess regent
The winter fur of a stoat ERMINE
The year of the ____ usually starts the Chinese zodiac cycle RAT
To die (US informal) buy the farm
To end the supremacy of DETHRONE
Website setting also called night mode and lights-out, among other names Dark theme
What “stein” means, in English rather than German beer mug
Winter Olympics host city in 1952 OSLO
____ defeated Karolina Pliskova in the 2021 Wimbledon ladies’ singles final Ashleigh Barty
____ Palace, near Stuttgart, is Germany’s largest palatial estate, covering 79 acres ludwigsburg