The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 403 December 31, 2023, Clues and Answers
Clues | Answers |
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“O ____ Absalom, ____ ____ Absalom!” (2 Samuel xviii, 33) | my son |
“The gun […] was a toy, as you could tell really by the ____ look of it” (Ruth Rendell crime novel) | plasticky |
A ____ king or queen has no crown or subjects | PEARLY |
Alternative to candy in a seven-word Ogden Nash poem | LIQUOR |
An amount of potentially useful but unusable material | SPOILAGE |
An employer of inspectors, set up in 1992 | OFSTED |
An old version of a word meaning carelessly lazy | lackadaisy |
Ancient Greek colonists in the central Mediterranean | italiots |
Another name for mangetout | snow pea |
Architectural style combining elements from multiple sources | ECLECTICISM |
Australian cattle breed, named after a New South Wales coastal area | ILLAWARRA |
Ballet dance with an unusual number of performers | pas de trois |
Became a King’s Counsel | took silk |
Because of an adjustment to the International Date Line, this day in 1994 did not exist in parts of ____ | KIRIBATI |
Cocktail which is about 50 per cent ginger wine | whisky mac |
Desert region of southern Israel | NEGEV |
In biology, this is often described as a single helix | ribonucleic acid |
In the style of an influential German-American architect | miesian |
Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di ____ is one of the world’s oldest banks | SIENA |
Member of the Thought Police, known only by his surname, in Orwell’s 1984 | O’Brien |
Members of special operations units in one US military force | Navy Seals |
Most inhabitants of San José or Alajuela are ____ | Costa Ricans |
Mount Thor, said to have the world’s biggest vertical drop, is in this part of Canada | Baffin Island |
New world animal with species commonly called “big hairy” and “pink fairy” | ARMADILLO |
On this day in 1757, Elizabeth I of Russia issued a ukase incorporating the Prussian city of ____ into Russia | konigsberg |
Clues | Answers |
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On this day in 1879, ____ made the first public use of incandescent lighting, in Menlo Park, New Jersey | thomas Edison |
On this day in 1961, Raidió ____ made its first TV broadcasts | teilifis Eireann |
On this day in 1992, ____ split into two republics | CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
On this day in 1999, Russian president Boris ____ resigned | YELTSIN |
One name for the first antiretroviral HIV medication | AZT |
Plants depicted in a vase in several Van Gogh paintings with a limited colour palette | SUNFLOWERS |
Screenwriter and director whose service in the Vietnam war influenced much of his work | Oliver Stone |
Small case hanging from the obi of kimono wearers | INRO |
Somewhat perversely, what is lacking in ____ roads is often pitch or concrete | unmetalled |
The kind of sound made by a propeller or an insect’s wings | WHIRR |
The leading members of a major British political party | front bench |
The only six-letter month on a Spanish calendar | AGOSTO |
The player seated on the left side of a large piano stool | SECONDO |
The product of the melting of a cirque glacier | TARN |
The Roman city which later became Colchester | camulodunum |
The state capital of Kansas | TOPEKA |
The ____s in Crystal Palace Park (pictured) were made with large moulds. On this day in 1853, a dinner was held inside one of them | IGUANODON |
This mollusc is “ormer” in Britain and “paua” in New Zealand | ABALONE |
To instigate a decision in a formal meeting | put the question |
Unit of length often equated with 45 inches | ELL |
Unlike Arkhangelsk, the port of Murmansk is ____ | ice-free |
What oboe and bassoon players are likely to worry about | REEDS |
What Robert McKenzie measured on election nights | SWING |
When a bill is ____, it becomes law | ENACTED |