| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 376 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and ____ three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator” (Lemony Snicket) | RECITE |
| “Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer ____ / Into something rich and strange” (Shakespeare) | a sea change |
| 1971 Carole King album that features It’s Too Late | TAPESTRY |
| Actor who played a backwards-aging man in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Brad Pitt |
| Actress who played the cook Julia Child in a 2009 film | Meryl Streep |
| Amphibians such as hellbenders and mud puppies | SALAMANDERS |
| Animal often used as a symbol of Russia | BEAR |
| Big Ben ____ is a replica clocktower in a former British Empire territory | ADEN |
| British foodstuff with a crimped edge, and protected geographical indication status since 2011 | cornish pasty |
| Capital city of Sierra Leone | FREETOWN |
| Card game, gold coin or fictional pig | NAPOLEON |
| Chains may matter in the work of these professionals | estate agents |
| Christian service celebrating the nativity of Jesus | midnight mass |
| Cleaning product, football team or hero in Greek myth | AJAX |
| Dance music act who released Rhythm is a Dancer in 1992 | SNAP |
| Design house that makes Kelly and Birkin bags | HERMES |
| Every match in the first (football) World Cup took place in this city | MONTEVIDEO |
| French existentialist who said that hell is other people | jean-paul sartre |
| Gaseous layer above the mesopause | THERMOSPHERE |
| Green and white-shirted Scottish football team | CELTIC |
| In Anglican churches, this is often Ancient and Modern or New English | HYMNAL |
| In children’s fiction, Professor Digory Kirke’s most significant piece of furniture | WARDROBE |
| In medicine, a small hammer used to test reflexes | PLEXOR |
| In old slang, a police officer | BLUEBOTTLE |
| In pre-Imperial English measurement units, half a cubit | SPAN |
| Informally, to adapt or embellish (something) ostentatiously | PIMP |
| Irvine Welsh novel featuring the character Spud | TRAINSPOTTING |
| Kind of exercise popularised by Jane Fonda in the 1980s | AEROBICS |
| Lamellophone which is heard at the beginning of the Who song Join Together | Jew’s-harp |
| Location of a battle between God and kings of the earth in Revelation | ARMAGEDDON |
| Margaret Atwood novel about the real-life 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery | Alias Grace |
| Medium-hard cheese, often with large holes, originally made in Switzerland | EMMENTAL |
| Millie Bobby Brown’s Stranger Things character | ELEVEN |
| New wave band whose breakthrough album was Rio in 1982 | Duran Duran |
| Nine ____s pass through each of your carpal tunnels | TENDON |
| Pop-rap act who released Where is the Love? in 2003 | black eyed peas |
| Raspy-voiced singer who had a 1999 hit with I Try | Macy Gray |
| Religion with elements from Protestant Christianity and pan-African political consciousness | RASTAFARIANISM |
| Short distance named after a Swedish physicist | ANGSTROM |
| Social science of human relationships and culture | ANTHROPOLOGY |
| Sportsman with the nickname Fed-ex | Roger Federer |
| Squat marsupial which produces cube-shaped dung | WOMBAT |
| The day after Mardi Gras | ash wednesday |
| The first Ford model with this name was a version of the 1950s Squire estate car | ESCORT |
| The oldest (national) capital city in the world | DAMASCUS |
| This Italian liqueur can be made with apricot stones | AMARETTO |
| Type of painting such as Michelangelo’s The Last Judgement | FRESCO |
| ____ won a Bafta and Oscar for Howard’s End in 1992 | Emma Thompson |
