The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 396 November 12, 2023, Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 396
Clues | Answers |
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“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without ____ it” (Oscar Wilde) | paying for |
A casting director’s way of saying an auditionee has been unsuccessful | don’t call us we’ll call you |
A New York state prison, open since 1826 | sing sing |
Abbreviation indicating that a named person is part of a group | et al |
Adjective which applies to our sun but no other | SOLAR |
American 1960s teenager who devised one of the most successful “flops” in history | Dick Fosbury |
An all-in-one winter garment | SNOWSUIT |
An arthropod’s hard outer cover | EXOSKELETON |
By ____ a bitmap, it appears to have more colours than are available | DITHERING |
Character who “has only to walk alone across a drawing room to offend its definitions” in The Age of Innocence | Ellen Olenska |
Cheap alcoholic drink of poor quality (informal) | ROTGUT |
Choral ____ is the BBC’s longest-running outside broadcast | EVENSONG |
Co-host of BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year since 2013 | Gabby Logan |
Companion of Julian Clary in his 19A shows | Fanny the Wonder Dog |
Computer chip logo and slogan introduced in 1991 | Intel inside |
Device which administers a drug as a fine mist | NEBULISER |
Eurasian songbird, the male having a pink breast | BULLFINCH |
Game show hosted by Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram | Total Wipeout |
In maths, something that becomes zero when raised to some positive integral power is ____ | NILPOTENT |
Informally, something that ____ makes sense | adds up |
Journalist and broadcaster who wrote The Book of Dave (2006) and Umbrella | Will Self |
Julian Clary’s performance name in the 1980s | The Joan Collins Fan Club |
Lord’s is the home of ____ | Marylebone Cricket Club |
Clues | Answers |
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One of the black or white shapes indicating a sharp bend on a road sign | CHEVRON |
Prime minister who owned yachts called Morning Cloud | ted heath |
Promontory which includes the northernmost point of the European mainland | nordkyn |
Pronunciation test words or phrases | shibboleths |
Seaweed burnt in the 18th and early 19th centuries to produce sodium carbonate for glass making | KELP |
Son of Odin | THOR |
Substances which destroy harmful micro-organisms | germicides |
Supplement amending a will | CODICIL |
Surface cavity formed when underlying rock or soil collapses | SINKHOLE |
Swimming while using a breathing tube | SNORKELLING |
The handle of an axe or knife | HAFT |
The perennial Christmas Bells is also called the Chinese ____ | lantern lily |
The tarot-reading Bond girl in Live and Let Die | SOLITAIRE |
The Who single which followed My Generation | SUBSTITUTE |
Three bright stars which can be used to find a well-known constellation | Orion’s Belt |
Uncharged molecule with an unpaired valence electron | free radical |
US House of Representatives speaker succeeded by Kevin McCarthy in 2023 | Nancy Pelosi |
US name for a legume grown for its tender long pods | snap bean |
Venomous Australian spiders of the genus Latrodectus | redbacks |
Venus as the morning star | LUCIFER |
____ custody is the usual alternative to bail | pre-trial |
____ gin is often sold in stone bottles | HOLLANDS |
____ Lang was Archbishop of Canterbury during the 1936 abdication crisis | COSMO |