The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 350 December 25 2022

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 350

Clues Answers
“A ____ Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian” (CS Lewis) NATURALISTIC
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of ____, of most excellent fancy” (Shakespeare) Infinite Jest
“And the good ____, he’s dressing / He’s getting ready for the show / He’s going to the carnival tonight / on Desolation Row” (Bob Dylan) SAMARITAN
“Britain’s 2012 relay coach hands over ____” (2011 The Times sport headline, about a resignation) BATON
“Happiness is having a loving, ____ family in another city” (George Burns) close-knit
“Pray ye dutifully prime / Your matin chime, ye ringers / May ye beautifully rime / Your evetime song, ye singers” (____) Ding Dong Merrily On High
“The practical man in the street who knows anything about ____ is quite aware that they are in their nature and intention lotteries” (The Economist, 1908) Premium Bonds
“____ / sticks / in my teeth too, / and I’d rather / compose / romances for you” (Vladimir Mayakovsky) AGITPROP
“_____, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust” (Ambrose Bierce in The Devil’s Dictionary) ACHIEVEMENT
2011 Steven Spielberg computer-animated film featuring a character created by cartoonist Hergé The Adventures of Tintin
African county called the land of a thousand hills RWANDA
American city in which sports teams the Marlins and the Dolphins play their home games MIAMI
Angels in the highest of nine “choirs” or orders SERAPHS
Band who had a 1982 number one with The Lion Sleeps Tonight Tight Fit
Benbecula, Eriskay and Taransay, for example Western Isles
British newspaper founded on January 1, 1785, under the name The Daily Universal Register the times
Crooner who, on his 1977 Merrie Olde Christmas show, performed Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie Bing Crosby
Dense, often dark loaf made using secale cereale rye bread
District once described as London’s French quarter SOHO
Egyptian goddess whose headdress in some depictions is a sun disc between cow horns ISIS
Film-making siblings who executive-produced Bad Santa and won a 1991 Palme d’Or for Barton Fink Coen Brothers
Fish which may be sterlet, ossetra, or sevruga STURGEON
Forename used in some Balkan countries, notably by the leader of Albania between 1944 and 1985 enver
Hates intensely DETESTS
In central and eastern parts of Alpine Europe, a legendary horned creature who punishes naughty children with birch branches in 45A krampus
Clues Answers
In chemistry, compounds containing molecules of water or its constituent elements HYDRATES
In the ancient Roman calendar, a plural noun for a day near the middle of a month IDES
Neon, helium and argon, for example noble gases
Numbered 92220, the last steam engine built by British Railways, in 1960 Evening Star
One of nine women in a famous song DANCER
Piero della Francesca’s example of this seasonal kind of painting is back on display at the National Gallery after a recent restoration NATIVITY
Richard Ayoade and Jon Hamm spent 48 hours in Hong Kong for the 2017 Christmas special of this Channel 4 show Travel Man
Roman God whose Greek counterpart is Pan SILVANUS
Ronnie, Keith and Mick, for example STONES
Russian author who wrote At Christmas Time and Three Sisters Anton Chekhov
Russian leader who, on his resignation in 1999, named Vladimir Putin acting president of Russia Boris Yeltsin
Season with four Sundays, at the beginning of the church year ADVENT
Sweet dessert wine produced near a Sicilian port MARSALA
The first religious figure recorded as having these wounds was Saint Francis of Assisi STIGMATA
The more seasonal of Oasis’s Gallagher brothers? NOEL
The most popular version of this translated Kurt Weill song includes five semitone-up modulations Mack the Knife
The second distal carpal bone in the human wrist TRAPEZOID
The tempo marking for the rondo movement that ends Mozart’s fourth horn concerto is Allegro ____ VIVACE
The ____ Patent-Motorwagen, patented in 1886, was the first commercially available car BENZ
Tree with aerial roots growing down into the soil BANYAN
Type of vessel in which François Gabart broke an around-the-world record in 2017 TRIMARAN
Waifish supermodel associated with “heroin chic” Kate Moss
Word that can prefix leopard, blindness and tyres SNOW
____ cards, which show one of five different symbols, have been used in experiments about ESP ZENER
____ winds blow up slopes heated by sunshine anabatic

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