The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 348 December 11 2022
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 348
Clues | Answers |
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“What do dancers think of ____? […] We hate him. He gives us a complex because he’s too perfect.” (Mikhail Baryshnikov) | Fred Astaire |
A school’s annual cohort of new pupils | INTAKE |
A ____ approach is one requiring little or no intervention | Hands-off |
Actress who plays Queen Gudrun in the 2022 film The Northman | Nicole Kidman |
Alberta’s “Gas City”, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling as having “all hell for a basement” | Medicine Hat |
City seen as the birthplace of the Irish linen industry | LISBURN |
Consumer investigation show on BBC TV since 1985 | WATCHDOG |
Coronation Street cafe owned by a railway and chess enthusiast | Roy’s Rolls |
County in Iowa; a US motorhome company founded there | WINNEBAGO |
Dance which originated in Cuba in the 1950s | cha-cha-cha |
Dutch philosopher, a leading 17th-century rationalist | SPINOZA |
Dutch town, noted for its pottery, where Jan Vermeer lived | DELFT |
Establishment outside which breakfast is consumed in the opening scene of in a 1961 film rom-con | Tiffany’s |
Extinct flying reptile, with remains principally found in limestone deposits in Bavaria | PTERODACTYL |
First-class cricket team whose only county championship win was in 1936 | DERBYSHIRE |
For a mathematical function y = f(x), the set of possible values for x is its ____ and the set of possible values of y is its range | DOMAIN |
Formally, “jobs for the boys” | NEPOTISM |
French term which once meant a light dish between courses at a formal banquet, and later a dessert | ENTREMETS |
Given comfort in times of grief or disappointment | CONSOLED |
Goddess of fate in Norse mythology | NORN |
In Scotland, an assistant to a hunter | GHILLIE |
Independent young tourists using cheap accommodation | BACKPACKERS |
Irish-American actress Maureen ____ starred with John Wayne in Rio Grande and The Quiet Man | O’Hara |
Italian dessert of egg yolks, sugar and marsala, beaten and usually served warm | ZABAGLIONE |
Clues | Answers |
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Leather made from the underside of animal skin | SUEDE |
Letters that Brian Cox, David Attenborough and James Dyson can add to their names | FRS |
Lionel ____ was the losing captain in the first shock result of the 2022 World Cup | MESSI |
London-based sporting organisation whose colours have been called “egg and bacon” | Marylebone Cricket Club |
Metal pans holding hot coals, providing comfort at night | bedwarmers |
Monty Don’s garden, often seen on Gardeners’ World | longmeadow |
Mr and Mrs Meaker were agents for this spooky agency in a 1970s/1980s BBC children’s comedy series | Rentaghost |
Musician such as John Williams, Brian May or Bert Weedon | GUITARIST |
Naturalist who founded a wetland wildlife reserve at Slimbridge | Peter Scott |
Nickname for a lorry’s tachograph | Spy in the cab |
One of the Windward Islands, discovered by Columbus on a Sunday and named accordingly | DOMINICA |
Percussion instrument with steel bars struck with mallets | GLOCKENSPIEL |
Poker player, host of a challenging TV quiz show since 2008 | Victoria Coren Mitchell |
Richard ____ and John Kay developed the spinning frame, an improvement on the previous spinning jenny | ARKWRIGHT |
Scottish game resembling hockey, in which the ball can be played in the air and with either side of the stick | SHINTY |
Sizewell B is a power station using a pressurised water ____ | REACTOR |
Symbol familiar to viola players in orchestras | Alto clef |
The ____ Throne was the seat of power in imperial China | DRAGON |
Three of the five Platonic solids have ____ triangles as faces | EQUILATERAL |
Topi is an alternative name for this lightweight sunhat | Pith helmet |
Type of melon first developed in Israel | OGEN |
Tyrannical Roman emperor assassinated in AD41 | CALIGULA |
____ plays Eileen Grimshaw in Coronation Street and recently appeared in I’m a Celebrity | Sue Cleaver |