The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 346 |
Clues |
Answers |
“Abused ____ is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity” (Robinson Crusoe) |
PROSPERITY |
“That dress I married you in was a hand-me-down from a ____ rich cousin I hated” (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof soundtrack) |
SNOTTY |
1946 film which was novelist Raymond Chandler’s first original screenplay |
The Blue Dahlia |
1960s British rock band fronted by Eric Burdon |
The Animals |
A stretch of grassy turf |
SWARD |
Actor whose name is an anagram of I GET ORDERS |
Rod Steiger |
Alternative to “act” for laws passed by parliament without royal assent during the English Civil War |
ORDINANCE |
Amusing as opposed to odd |
funny ha-ha |
An arable farm storage building |
GRANARY |
An experimenter or quack |
EMPIRIC |
An illicit love affair |
LIAISON |
At an elevation of over 1000m, Europe’s highest capital city |
Andorra La Vella |
Body of water on which most of Italy’s west coast lies |
Tyrrhenian Sea |
Character in The Goon Show occasionally referred to as Mad Dan |
ECCLES |
Co-star of Ricky Gervais in the romantic comedy film The Invention of Lying |
Jennifer Garner |
Country whose currency is the quetzal |
GUATEMALA |
Dickens novel about a young girl born and raised in a debtors’ prison |
little dorrit |
Document which is evidence of property ownership |
title deed |
Dua Lipa’s second studio album, released in March 2020 |
Future Nostalgia |
Eulogies |
ENCOMIA |
Familiar name of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor |
appassionata |
Feasts for former college members, especially at Oxford University |
gaudies |
First gymnast to score a perfect 10.0 at the Olympics |
Nadia Comaneci |
Food, in Australian and New Zealand slang |
TUCKER |
Former world No 1 tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the US |
Monica Seles |
French culinary term for leaf vegetables like lettuce and sorrel, cut into shreds or strips and used as a garnish |
chiffonnade |
Inflammation of the joints of the backbone |
spondylitis |
Italian region whose capital is Bologna |
Emilia-Romagna |
Olympic rowing champion partnered by Heather Stanning and Polly Swann |
Helen Glover |
Pertaining to pimples |
papular |
Prefix relating to water |
AQUA |
Professional whose title is usually preceded by “real” in the US |
estate agent |
Sancho ____, the squire of Don Quixote |
PANZA |
Small dishes for dishes like crème brûlée |
RAMEKINS |
Small river fish of the carp family |
CHUB |
South African winner of the 1984 Nobel peace prize |
Desmond Tutu |
Star Trek character played by Marina Sirtis |
Deanna Troi |
That which transmits nerve cell impulses |
AXON |
The capital of North Korea |
PYONGYANG |
The instrumental Chi Mai by Ennio Morricone translates to the English ____ |
WHOEVER |
The last entirely female force in the British Army, disbanded in 1992 |
WRAC |
The lover of Dido in classical legend |
AENEAS |
The proboscis monkey genus |
NASALIS |
The ____ de Paris is believed to be the world’s oldest hospital, founded in AD561 |
Hotel-Dieu |
Threaded fastening devices designed to be turned by hand |
wing nuts |
To ____ on something is to clarify or help to explain it |
shed light |
Video game franchise featuring adventurer Nathan Drake |
UNCHARTED |
____ won an Oscar for her first film role (Funny Girl) |
Barbra Streisand |