The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 349 |
Clues |
Answers |
“The society that puts equality before freedom will ____ with neither” (Milton Friedman) |
end up |
1942 war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean |
In Which We Serve |
A device connecting computers to a network |
HUB |
A liturgical reader |
LECTOR |
A mezzaluna is a ____ with two handles |
KNIFE |
A successor of Muhammad as a ruler of the Islamic world |
CALIPH |
A water nymph |
NAIAD |
Also called MacAlpine, a ruler of Dalriada considered the first Scottish king |
Kenneth I |
Australian aboriginal spear-throwing device |
WOOMERA |
Author of the 12 Horatio Hornblower books |
CS Forester |
Bird, similar in appearance to the swallow, which spends most of its life in flight |
SWIFT |
Brief reminders written on slips of paper and often hidden |
crib notes |
Celtic language spoken in France |
BRETON |
Dew forms when atmospheric moisture condenses faster than it can ____ |
EVAPORATE |
Dunedin is the capital of this New Zealand region |
OTAGO |
Elvis Presley’s 1962 UK No 1 Christmas single |
Return to Sender |
French artist, a pioneer in performance art |
Yves Klein |
French loanword for a fulcrum or strategic prop |
point d’appui |
Group whose “Don’t You Want Me” was the 1981 UK No 1 Christmas single |
The Human League |
In Greek myth, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta |
ANTIGONE |
In medieval times, the name of five kings of Jerusalem |
BALDWIN |
In St John’s gospel, a Pharisee supporting Jesus against other Pharisees |
NICODEMUS |
Instruction for all cast members to leave the stage |
exeunt omnes |
Island 44 miles from Cape Wrath, uninhabited since 1844, the closest land to the Faroe Islands |
North Rona |
It’ll be OK |
don’t despair |
Jacobean mansion in Cheshire, built for a lord chief justice |
Crewe Hall |
Ladbaby’s 2018 UK No 1 Christmas single |
We Built This City |
Large mountain dog of northern Japan |
AKITA |
Largest city of the United Arab Emirates |
DUBAI |
Men who marry several women, and/or treat them very badly |
bluebeards |
Not severe or strict |
LENIENT |
Of a document, comprising an original and copy |
in duplicate |
One wooing with song |
SERENADER |
Partner of dah in Morse code |
DIT |
Pet which may be Cardigan or Pembroke |
CORGI |
Philadelphia soul group ____ and the Blue Notes had their biggest hits in the 1970s |
Harold Melvin |
Powerful or concentrated |
INTENSE |
Q: How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizza? A: ____ |
deep pan crisp and even |
Q: What do you call someone who doesn’t believe in Santa? A: ____ |
A rebel without a Claus |
Q: Why did Rudolph and Blitzen have no bidders on eBay? A: ____ |
Because they were two deer |
Q: Why did the turkey cross the road? A: ____ |
It was the chicken’s day off |
Series of alternating corners on eg a racing circuit |
ESSES |
Singer who had a 1972 hit with Without You |
NILSSON |
Singer whose “Christmas Alphabet” was the 1955 UK No 1 Christmas single |
Dickie Valentine |
St Peter’s in Rome and Sagrada Familia in Barcelona are ____ rather than cathedrals |
BASILICAS |
Standard unit of magnetic field strength |
OERSTED |
Supplied with food, archaically |
vittled |
Surname meaning “lion”, used by male Sikhs |
SINGH |
The 1986 comedy film ____ Apocalypse starred Loretta Swit, Herbert Lom and Peter Cook |
WHOOPS |
The first Dutch team to win the European cup, in 1970 |
FEYENOORD |
The internal organs, collectively |
VISCERA |
To confuse mentally, especially about places and identities |
DISORIENT |
To show mild surprise or shock |
raise an eyebrow |
William ____ translated the first new English bible produced during the Reformation |
TYNDALE |
With reference to a hero of Homer’s Iliad, a weak spot |
achilles heel |
____ June is probably Frederick Leighton’s best-known painting |
FLAMING |