The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 398 November 26 2023 Answers

The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 398

Clues Answers
“… her nostrils, so ____ of caressing breezes and amorous scents …” (Madame Bovary) GLUTTONOUS
“Please ____” is an example of a pleonasm RSVP
1932 comic novel featuring several members of the Starkadder family cold comfort farm
1967 comedy film starring Dean Martin, third of the four Matt Helm films The Ambushers
A circular fort built for coastal defence martello tower
A fashionable dressmaker or milliner MODISTE
A meadow grass with brushlike spikes FOXTAIL
A product of photosynthesis GLUCOSE
A Scottish diminutive of Janet JESSIE
A wetting agent surfactant
Actor best known for his sitcom role as Battery Sergeant Major Williams Windsor Davies
American cigarette manufacturer which was a sponsor of the 1982 Fifa World Cup WINSTON
Book which is often called the first modern novel Don Quixote
British composer whose music “combines instant popular appeal with the most visionary raptus” (Oxford Companion to Music) Sir Edward Elgar
Comedian whose recurring characters included Cosmo Smallpiece Les Dawson
County town where Izaak Walton, author of the The Compleat Angler, was born STAFFORD
Defenders of this Texan mission were killed in an 1836 siege ALAMO
Dutch footballer who scored 144 goals for Arsenal and Manchester United Robin Van Persie
Epidemic which reached England in 1348 Black Death
Gems which have been polished but not faceted cabochons
Greek island which gives its name to a fortified dessert wine SAMOS
Group founded in 1977 and still fronted by Victor Willis Village People
Having a brownish pale yellow hue straw-coloured
In anatomy, a decussation or intercrossing CHIASMA

 

Clues Answers
In art, a portrayal of Jesus wearing the crown of thorns Ecce Homo
Infuriates riles up
Level 42’s most successful UK single Lessons in Love
Like a friend of Charles Dickens? MUTUAL
Long-billed North American waders resembling godwits DOWITCHERS
Manhattan’s ____ Avenue is part of its West Side Highway TWELFTH
Member of what is regarded as London’s first professional police force Bow Street Runner
Middle name of actor Michael J Fox ANDREW
Nottingham-based swimwear manufacturer with a boomerang logo SPEEDO
One who lives a religious life of contemplation and self-denial ASCETIC
Paper handkerchiefs TISSUES
Pop group The ____ changed their name to Babble before splitting in the 1990s Thompson Twins
Relating to jurisprudence LEGAL
Sergei ____ directed Battleship Potemkin EISENSTEIN
Swimmer who modelled for a mermaid statue in Cowes, Isle of Wight Sharron Davies
Texas city; an Oxford or Cambridge college Corpus Christi
The class of millipedes diplopoda
The highest point ACME
The ____ was hosted by Adrian Chiles and Christine Lampard from 2007 to 2010 One Show
Thomas Tuchel is the current manager of this club bayern munich
To preclude in law ESTOP
When the sun is over the ____, it’s traditionally OK to booze YARDARM
Wind instrument traditionally made from clay or ceramic OCARINA
Writer of sitcoms including Bread and Butterflies Carla Lane

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