The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 412 March 3 2024 Clues and Answers

Clues Answers
“It is more important that a proposition be ____ than it be true” (Alfred North Whitehead) INTERESTING
“Qu’ils mangent de la ____” (Rousseau) BRIOCHE
“The Water-____ ascended thrice / And gave his doleful warning” (Wordsworth) WRAITH
“Thou can’st not say ____; never shake / Thy gory locks at me” (Macbeth) I Did It
1930 Grant Wood painting used in the opening titles of Desperate Housewives American Gothic
1979 date of Margaret Thatcher’s first election victory as a party leader Third of May
1990s BBC series in which Andrew Lincoln played Egg This Life
2006 dystopian film starring Hugo Weaving in a Guy Fawkes mask and Natalie Portman V for Vendetta
A line like a contour, seen on some weather maps ISOBAR
A reversal of this male forename is a mint brand ROBERT
A term of address for a male priest His Reverence
A tongue for use between speakers of other tongues lingua franca
Acts limiting grain imports into Britain, repealed in 1846 corn laws
Animal such as Albert II, the first primate in space rhesus monkey
Another name for a monocle EYEGLASS
Another term for entourages RETINUES
Archbishop of Canterbury who wrote Cur Deus Homo ANSELM
Australian city named after William IV’s consort ADELAIDE
Author of Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Band who had a 1992 hit with Weather with You Crowded House
Beef cut usually cooked slowly SHIN
Brand name for a portable device used to treat anaphylaxis EPIPEN
Bread manufacturer which Samuel L Jackson and Sylvester Stallone have advertised warburtons
Character introduced in The Little White Bird peter pan
French-derived term for obsessive passion amour fou

 

Clues Answers
Garden plant; a male lover’s name in various old ballads sweet william
How rapper Marshall Mathers is better known EMINEM
Informal term for a barrister BRIEF
John ____ gave his name to a list of aristocrats, most recently published (in its 150th edition) in 2019 DEBRETT
Latin term meaning from the start ab initio
Lead actress in the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive Naomi Watts
Leader of the Chicago Outfit crime syndicate, 1925-31 Al Capone
Like Manor House and Royal Oak, this tube station (on the Jubilee line) is named after a pub Swiss Cottage
Medium in which James May worked to create a garden for the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show PLASTICINE
Nickname of Brighton and Hove Albion SEAGULLS
Otis the ____ was a late 1990s CBBC puppet presenter AARDVARK
Plum-like fruit with a cultivar called Frogmore DAMSON
Queen Boudicca’s tribe ICENI
Seaweed-derived substance used instead of gelatine in vegan cooking AGAR
Since 2021, the main host of BBC Woman’s Hour Emma Barnett
Singer whose 1978 number one single asked listeners about his carnal desirability Rod Stewart
Territory sold by Russia in 1867 to prevent it from falling into British hands in a future war ALASKA
The Declaration of ____, sent to the pope by Sottish barons in 1320, asserted the antiquity of Scottish independence ARBROATH
The trumpet manucode, for example bird of paradise
The ____s at the base of Nelson’s Column were designed by Edwin Landseer LION
To pitch tents ENCAMP
Type of ham whose name means “dried beforehand” PROSCIUTTO
US president between (Theodore) Roosevelt and Wilson TAFT
Viola falls in love with this duke in Twelfth Night ORSINO
Words after “Women” or “Shakespeare” in film titles in love

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