The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 401 December 17, 2023, Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 401
Clues | Answers |
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“Curses, ____” is a stock phrase for a fictional villain | foiled again |
“Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart ____ a mystery” (Tennyson) | FOREBODES |
1960 Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medallist | Cassius Clay |
1975 Tom Sharpe novel about the construction of the M101 motorway | Blott on the Landscape |
1975 trucking song featuring Rubber Duck | CONVOY |
A roadside cafe, colloquially | greasy spoon |
A Sundance Film Festival entry, typically | INDIE |
Actress ____ is the sister of Warren Beatty | Shirley MacLaine |
Alistair ____ wrote Ice Station Zebra | MACLEAN |
Black panther who befriends Mowgli in The Jungle Book | BAGHEERA |
Books which are sold off cheaply | REMAINDERS |
Canada’s national summer sport | LACROSSE |
Ceres and Pluto are ____ planets | DWARF |
Comedian who co-founded the training film company Video Arts in 1972 | John Cleese |
Dagger with a long slender blade | STILETTO |
Dessert cocktail often topped with ground nutmeg | brandy Alexander |
Device typically used for a dial-up internet service | MODEM |
Fictional collie created in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight | LASSIE |
First name of Abba’s youngest member | agnetha |
First of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels | Under the Greenwood Tree |
France’s longest river | LOIRE |
Full version of the abbreviation on Bénédictine liqueur bottle labels | Deo Optimo Maximo |
Giraffe relative with striped thighs | OKAPI |
Clues | Answers |
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Governors of ancient Greek provinces; Eastern Orthodox bishops | eparchs |
Heraldic body located on Queen Victoria Street, London | college of arms |
Hoarding secretly | STASHING |
Horace and ____ are dog thieves in both 101 Dalmatians films | Jasper Baddun |
Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) | dead as a doornail |
Lambert Strether is the protagonist of this 1903 Henry James novel | The Ambassadors |
Long (for) | YEARN |
Musician who fronted the new wave band Tubeway Army | Gary Numan |
Nation with contiguous territory in two continents | EGYPT |
Old synonym for “lifted” or “removed”, now only used in an idiomatic phrase | HOIST |
Real name of rapper Puff Daddy | Sean Combs |
Religious celebration occurring on the same date every year | immovable feast |
Slayer of the monster Grendel | BEOWULF |
That which may colloquially be called a posse | ENTOURAGE |
The “Adulterous”, “Placemakers’” and “Sin on” ____ were named after printing errors | BIBLES |
The act of enforcing the forfeit of a surety for bail | estreatment |
The Muse of comedy | THALIA |
The name of TS Eliot’s Old Gumbie Cat | JENNYANYDOTS |
The Scuderia Ferrari team’s home racing circuit | IMOLA |
The ____ is an English language newspaper published in India since 1875 | STATESMAN |
TV presenter who won the sixth series of The Great British Bake Off | Nadiya Hussain |
____ Butler is the male protagonist of Gone with the Wind | RHETT |
____ played James T Kirk in several Star Trek films (2009-2016) | Chris Pine |