The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 391

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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the ____” (HL Mencken) IMPROBABLE
“If cookery is the new rock ’n’ roll […] ____ must be the new Mick Jagger” (Penguin TV Guide) Jamie Oliver
“The United States will not ____ from the world, and we will never surrender to evil” (George W Bush) RETREAT
40A once quoted this phrase, attributed to “a little old lady” in a post-lecture Q&A, which expresses the philosophical problem of infinite regress turtles all the way down
A hindrance to free movement; a device for drawing 6Ds TRAMMEL
A look, in originally military slang based on Arabic SHUFTI
A small container or a dangerous situation powder keg
A village like Anatevka in Fiddler on the Roof SHTETL
Actress whose first major TV role was “Q” in Rock Follies Rula Lenska
An example of this structure supports the London Eye A-frame
Attempting seduction or deception trying it on
Author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles
Benvenuto ____ was a famous goldsmith from Florence CELLINI
Canadian-born architect Frank ____ designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao GEHRY
Congregational minister who wrote hymns including When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and Joy to the World Isaac Watts
Conscientious, or motivated by duty rather than desire DUTIFUL
Currency unit abolished in Tunisia in 1958 FRANC
Experience shared by Arlene Foster, Nicholas Soames and Tom Watson in 2022 ENNOBLEMENT
Geographical feature such as Vatnajökull in Iceland ice cap
Go back to a former condition, especially an inferior one RETROGRESS
Grammatically, words like “ask”, “say” and “warn” reporting verbs
Greek equivalent of the Roman god Mars ARES
Hippocrates advocated a blend of salt, alum and vinegar as an early form of ____ MOUTHWASH
Hugh ____ wrote the Doctor Dolittle books LOFTING
Clues Answers
In the 1950s and 1960s, Australia’s ____Rocket Range was the world’s second-busiest after Cape Canaveral WOOMERA
Informally, Amanita muscaria, the usual fairy-story picture toadstool fly agaric
Informally, to express contempt for (something) sniff at
Kurt Vonnegut novel whose preface starts with a statement about a trademark Breakfast of Champions
May Morris as an embroiderer and jeweller, or Annie Phillips as the 2022 winner of The Great British Sewing Bee craftswoman
Myopic character seen mostly in US cartoons, since 1949 Mr Magoo
Name that your grandparents may have used for a radio wireless set
Old name of a Maryland town, home of an apparent murderer and kidnapper in a 1999 supernatural horror film BLAIR
One of the two idioms suggested by Alice in Wonderland tea party attendees mad as a March hare
One way to join a family is to ____ it marry into
Physicist who was Cambridge University’s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, 1979-2009 Stephen Hawking
Raquel and Curly ____ were a 1990s Corrie couple WATTS
Small chest for holding valuables COFFER
Swiss psychologist who developed the concepts of personas and complexes JUNG
The eponymous devious “bio-exorcist” in a 1988 film BEETLEJUICE
The Malaysian state closest to Singapore johor
The oldest OED citation for this late teenage experience is from 1978 gap year
The real numbers are one example of this kind of set uncountable
The shape of an angled cross-section of a cylinder ELLIPSE
The southernmost national park in the USA’s 50 states hawaii volcanoes
Until 2008, Shredded Wheat was made at a factory in this garden city WELWYN
When repeated, a comic strip representation of laughter fnarr
William Howard ____ is the only person to be both president and chief justice of the USA TAFT
Wish (1992) was gothic band the ____’s only No 1 album CURE