The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 411 February 25 2024 Clues and Answers

Clues Answers
… and what Ronnie Barker actually wanted handles for forks
“All ____s are good except the tiresome kind” (Voltaire) STYLE
“Friends and colleagues all ____ looked at us, treated us, slightly differently” (Neil Armstrong) of a sudden
“Not half so swift the ____ doves can fly / When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky” (Pope) TREMBLING
A person given counsel ADVISEE
About two thirds of the grapes in France’s “black wine” of Cahors are of this variety MALBEC
Actor who played Private Pike in Dad’s Army Ian Lavender
Aviation pioneer with a brother called Wilbur Orville Wright
Beef steak fillet named after a French author CHATEAUBRIAND
Birthstone for the month of May EMERALD
Britain’s southernmost city TRURO
British golfer who was ranked world No 1 for a total of 97 weeks Nick Faldo
Cartoon dog first featured in the Daily Mail in 1963 Fred Basset
Charlton Heston’s co-star in the 1961 epic El Cid Sophia Loren
Comedian who popularised the word “zit” in Britain and played the curmudgeonly Sykesy in The Archers last year Jasper Carrott
Copper ore sometimes used ornamentally MALACHITE
Don Knotts received five Emmy awards for playing this deputy sheriff Barney Fife
Drainage area occupying around 10 per cent of Africa’s area Nile Basin
Eliopsomo is a Greek variety of this Mediterranean food olive bread
French car manufacturer, nationalised in 1945 and privatised in 1996 RENAULT
From Latin for “nest”, focuses of infection in medicine niduses
Having no date for resumption sine die
If I ____, I don’t know how to answer or what to do am stumped
In a famous sketch, that offered by Ronnie Corbett … four candles
In Jane Austen’s Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates’s ____ NIECE
Clues Answers
In medicine, this may be inguinal or hiatus HERNIA
In the UK, January in professional football mid-season
Is uncritically fond of (someone) dotes on
Japanese port city on the Yodo River OSAKA
Journalist placed within a military unit in wartime EMBED
Large round storage devices used in 1960s and 1970s computing (US spelling) disk packs
Malware which is disguised as standard software TROJAN
Metrical feet in poetry (one of three possible spellings) IAMBS
New Zealand city noted for geothermal activity ROTORUA
Optical device designed to have minimal spherical aberration fresnel lens
Oscar ____ was the lyricist for musicals such as Carousel and South Pacific HAMMERSTEIN
Pianist described by Elvis Presley as ‘the real king of rock ‘n’ roll’ Fats Domino
Port-au-Prince is the capital of ____ HAITI
Serving to constrain INHIBITIVE
Tex-Mex dish often served sizzling on a platter FAJITAS
The largest members of the grass family are kinds of ____ BAMBOO
The Mississippi as represented in song Old Man River
The Roman goddess of agriculture CERES
The ____, between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, has the world’s largest tidal range Bay of Fundy
To be on either side of BOOKEND
To withdraw from combat DISENGAGE
Welsh rock band fronted by Kelly Jones STEREOPHONICS
Winged “lizard” of the late Triassic and Cretaceous periods PTEROSAUR
___ was the last US president from the Whig party, taking office after the death of Zachary Taylor in 1850 Millard Fillmore
____ Pig is Porky Pig’s girlfriend PETUNIA

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Time limit is exhausted. Please reload the CAPTCHA.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.