| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 212 |
| Clues | Answers |
| “And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, / That not a single accent seems ____” (Byron, writing about Italian) | UNCOUTH |
| “And he [Jacob] ____, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven” (Genesis 28:12) | DREAMED |
| “Call me ____” (Betty Boothroyd, when asked how she should be addressed as speaker of the House of Commons) | MADAM |
| 1988 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine as rival conmen | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| A concluding piece of music, or an epilogue | POSTLUDE |
| A pig, specifically a castrated male domesticated one | HOG |
| A voodoo priestess, or a Latin American dance | MAMBO |
| Actor who married Lauren Bacall in 1945 | Humphrey Bogart |
| An upper class young man who is lively rather than useful | Hooray Henry |
| Apt to cause worry | DISQUIETING |
| Archbishop of York who became lord chancellor in 1475 | Thomas Rotherham |
| Author of Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| Be comparable or compatible | match up |
| Biased argument used to win rather than convey truth | special pleading |
| Biblical character who said “I have been a stranger in a strange land” | MOSES |
| Early type of machine gun, used by French forces in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71 | MITRAILLEUSE |
| Emmanuel Chabrier’s best-known composition, a rhapsody for orchestra written after a six-month tour abroad | ESPANA |
| Grammar, rhetoric, and logic, as an introductory course at a medieval university | TRIVIUM |
| Hammond ____ wrote The Wreck of the Mary Deare | INNES |
| Hordeolum is the medical name for this eye inflammation | STYE |
| Hot drinks of port, lemon juice and spices | neguses |
| L’____ is a commune located in the Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris | Ile-Saint-Denis |
| Latin phrase meaning “pending agreement” in English | ad referendum |
| Latin term for a pot or urn, still used in Spanish | OLLA |
| Libreville is the capital of this African country | GABON |
| Margaret Thatcher’s electoral successes of the 1980s were sometimes attributed to ____ | essex man |
| Mathematical relationship often expressed as x:y | RATIO |
| Mathematical statement using the = sign | EQUATION |
| Measurement unit for duvets | TOG |
| Oberon and Titania are characters in this Shakespeare comedy | a midsummer night's dream |
| Of a computer program, corrected or improved by adding a small set of instructions | PATCHED |
| Plant also known as cranesbill, from the shape of its seed pods | GERANIUM |
| Russian satellite, literally “travelling companion” | SPUTNIK |
| Scottish author whose final novel was The Finishing School | Muriel Spark |
| SI unit of electrical charge | COULOMB |
| Singer who gained fame as Charlene Robinson in Neighbours | Kylie Minogue |
| Singer who had a 1988 hit with Twist in My Sobriety | Tanita Tikaram |
| Surrey town, first place attacked in The War of the Worlds | WOKING |
| The capital of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province | pietermaritzburg |
| The creator of Psmith | PG Wodehouse |
| The German equivalent of captain, as a military rank | HAUPTMANN |
| The iridescent tarnish of the mineral bornite gives rise to its informal name, “____ ore” | PEACOCK |
| The largest of Galway Bay’s Aran Islands | Inis Mor |
| The world’s longest fence was built to protect sheep from this creature | DINGO |
| Use of repeated random sampling to estimate a numerical result which is difficult or impossible to calculate | Monte Carlo method |
| Word which can precede uncle and wife | DUTCH |
| ____ played Emma Peel in The Avengers, 1965-68 | Diana Rigg |
| ____ won the best actor Oscar for his role in Marty | Ernest Borgnine |
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