The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 409

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“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And ____ the thing we have prayed for in our face” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) THRUSTS
“Hary mugwort […] had been put into deten by sigismund the mad maths master for saing ____ whenever a perpendicular was droped” (Nigel Molesworth) BANG
1957 Beckett play set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland ENDGAME
A Sunday Afternoon on the ____ is one of Seurat’s best-known paintings Island of La Grande Jatte
Alex ____ replaced Jonny Bairstow in England’s 2022 T20 world cup squad HALES
American shock rock band founded in 1973 KISS
Areas of rough water created by opposing currents tide rips
Bernard Cribbins appeared 114 times in this TV show jackanory
Biggest city in northeastern Italy’s Friuli region UDINE
Feature of the flags of California, Panama and Tunisia red star
Greater Manchester town where Reebok had its headquarters until 1984 BOLTON
High-value coin often mentioned in pirate fiction DOUBLOON
Hughie ____ created Opportunity Knocks, the UK’s first broadcast talent show GREEN
Ian ____ wrote the novels Amsterdam and Atonement MCEWAN
In road travel, a possible result of a leaky valve slow puncture
Informally, extremely wealthy people squillionaires
Iron ore which is the main ingredient of red ochre HAEMATITE
J ____, senator for Arkansas 1945-74, founded a prestigious scholarship programme William Fulbright
Jess ____’s decision to go “on t’road” starts JB Priestley’s The Good Companions OAKROYD
John Updike novel, filmed in 1987 The Witches of Eastwick
John ____’s G has the shortest title for a Booker Prize winner BERGER
Lake Placid is in the ____ mountains in New York state ADIRONDACK
Landform which is the remains of a sub-glacial stream bed ESKER
Legendary relic once owned by Joseph of Arimathea holy grail
Lollipop-sucking detective of 1970s TV KOJAK
Clues Answers
Middle Eastern nation whose northern coast was ruled by Portugal, 1507-1656 OMAN
Moon of Jupiter named after a foster mother of Zeus AMALTHEA
National Park in the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain Picos de Europa
One name for a major pest sewer rat
Perform a favour; constrain someone else to do something OBLIGE
Plant of the brassica family, an ancient source of blue dye WOAD
Plants often sold in pairs to put either side of an entrance bay trees
Portuguese song genre, featured in a 2023 BBC Prom FADO
Pravda condemned Shostakovich’s opera ____ of Mtsensk as “muddle rather than music” shortly after Stalin saw it Lady Macbeth
Resin secreted by an Asian bug SHELLAC
Rhyming slang expression of incredulity would you Adam and Eve it
Series which included Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party Play for Today
Someone acting in a consciously independent way UNILATERALIST
Song for Kate and her three suitors in Kiss Me, Kate Tom Dick or Harry
The Great ____ of 1054 formalised the division between Catholic and Orthodox churches SCHISM
The literary pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans George Eliot
The mineral pitchblende is a form of ____ dioxide URANIUM
The muse of history CLIO
The ____ near Lalibela in Ethiopia were one of the first 12 Unesco world heritage sites to be designated, in 1978 Rock-hewn churches
To dim (one’s eyes) BLEAR
Two pages of Series B UK passports show Anish ____’s work kapoor
Upton ____’s 1906 book The Jungle was about meat-packing workers, but created more concern about food safety SINCLAIR
Womble named after a Siberian city TOMSK
____ nouveau is a wine sold in the year of its harvest BEAUJOLAIS
____ was a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show RHODA