The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 424

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Clues Answers
“He can have the stuff in the saucepan before you can say ____” (Basil Fawlty in Gourmet Night) haute cuisine
“No cause, however just, can warrant the ____ slaughter that is going on” (Mahatma Gandhi, in To Every Briton (1940)) INDISCRIMINATE
“With this ring I thee wed, [...] and with all my worldly goods I thee ____” (Book of Common Prayer wedding service) ENDOW
“____ man kills the thing he loves” (Oscar Wilde) EACH
1922 film in which Max Schreck played Count Orlok NOSFERATU
1978 war film which won Michael Cimino a Best Director Oscar The Deer Hunter
1996 Alex Garland novel featuring Daffy and Bugs The Beach
A shield-shaped insect emitting a pungent spray stink bug
Actor who played Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister Nigel Hawthorne
African state once led by a self-proclaimed king of Scotland UGANDA
As the BBC’s Europe correspondent, Damian ____ reported on post-Brexit issues grammaticas
Britons Farrell and Niall Treacy compete in this sport SPEEDSKATING
Cannibalistic Indonesian reptile, largest of the lizards Komodo dragon
Celestial body classified in the Morgan–Keenan system STAR
Country in which Tikal National Park is located GUATEMALA
DA Pennebaker documentary which follows Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England Don't Look Back
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire author Edward Gibbon
Drug baron who gave himself up after his government had banned extradition of Colombians to the US Pablo Escobar
English band fronted by a co-organizer of Band Aid ULTRAVOX
Forename shared by a world chess champion and a presenter of the quiz show Mastermind MAGNUS
Former Birmingham City managing director who found television fame as an aide on the BBC’s The Apprentice Karren Brady
Hard cheese from the same region of Spain as Don Quixote MANCHEGO
In a poem, Byron called Cromwell “the ____ of usurpers” SAGEST
In computing, supplementary browser components add-ons
Clues Answers
ITV’s alternative to Blue Peter, which ran from 1968 to 1980 MAGPIE
Latin term meaning “before birth” in utero
Log-growing mushroom often used in oriental cuisine SHIITAKE
Mythical figure who drowned in the Aegean during an attempt to escape a labyrinthine prison on Crete ICARUS
Nationality of 800m runner world record holder David Rudisha KENYAN
Old name for an emperor of Japan MIKADO
Petula Clarke’s signature song DOWNTOWN
River that is joined by the Foss in York OUSE
Rule stating that a planet’s orbit around a star is roughly twice as long as the next nearest planet’s orbit Bode's law
Scottish author who created Inspector Rebus Ian Rankin
Singer who had a 1986 No 1 hit with When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going Billy Ocean
Subject written about by Discipline writer Alain De Botton PHILOSOPHY
Thales of Miletus and Solon of Athens were two of Ancient Greece’s Seven ____ SAGES
The increase in drag as a plane approaches 770 mph Sound Barrier
The legendary long-standing status of Atlantis SUBMERGED
The nearest city to Europe in any African country TANGIER
The only founding member of the Pretenders who is still in the band Chrissie Hynde
The Peter Principle states that people within a hierarchy will rise to a level of their own ____ INCOMPETENCE
Trojan leader and protagonist of a Virgil epic AENEAS
Type of Pacific food fish or type of screwdriver FLATHEAD
Unit of power equal to 1 joule per second WATT
US president who “could not walk and chew gum at the same time” in a sanitised Lyndon B Johnson quote Gerald Ford
Vegetable with a variety called French Breakfast RADISH
What the first two letters of the acronym Asbo stand for ANTISOCIAL