| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 225 |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Grow great by your example and put on / The dauntless spirit of ____” (Shakespeare, King John) | RESOLUTION |
| “Till the injurious Romans did ____ / This tribute from us, we were free” (Shakespeare, Cymbeline) | EXTORT |
| “Whereas an ambiguous statement may be vague by accident or intent, an equivocal one is calculatedly ____” (Bill Bryson, Troublesome Words) | UNCLEAR |
| “____ and wisdom are not opposing values” (Bill Clinton) | STRENGTH |
| 1996 football single featuring Baddiel and Skinner | Three Lions |
| A Bakewell tart has this almond-based filling | FRANGIPANE |
| A deer’s horn | ANTLER |
| A North American born of Japanese immigrant parents | NISEI |
| A rhyming game | CRAMBO |
| A shivering fit | AGUE |
| A ____ question is one which does not invite an answer | RHETORICAL |
| Also known as the “Cradle of Liberty”, a popular tourist site in Boston, Massachusetts | Faneuil Hall |
| An ecclesiastical council, or an obsolete word for a conjunction of planets | SYNOD |
| Another name for hydrogen cyanide | prussic acid |
| Archaically or in dialect, an ant | EMMET |
| Art gallery owned by Jay Jopling, with two branches in London and one on Hong Kong Island | White Cube |
| Capital of Thessaly and, in myth, the birthplace of Achilles | LARISSA |
| Designating the most negative outcome of something | worst-case |
| Disneyland is in this Californian city | ANAHEIM |
| Early devices used to help those with poor hearing | ear trumpets |
| Early type of motorcycle with a passenger seat in front | forecar |
| Framework allowing a vehicle to carry extra luggage | roof rack |
| Henrik ____ wrote Hedda Gabler | IBSEN |
| In Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, the one mentioned after Venezuelan beaver cheese | CHEDDAR |
| Like his brother Denis, ____ played football for Arsenal and cricket for Middlesex | Leslie Compton |
| London’s ____ docks opened in 1806 and closed in 1967 | East India |
| Manager of Sampdoria, and formerly Leicester City | Claudio Ranieri |
| Medical term for an abnormally strong appetite, derived from the ancient Greek for “hunger” | limosis |
| Multi-volume hagiography, started in the 17th century | Acta Sanctorum |
| Musician and poet who collaborated with Pete Doherty of the Libertines and Babyshambles | Peter Wolfe |
| Old name for the Mon-Khmer language of Vietnam | annamese |
| Pertaining to kissing | OSCULAR |
| Plain white fur used in clothing | MINIVER |
| Popular eating and cooking apple of Australian origin | Granny Smith |
| Portia’s maid in The Merchant of Venice | NERISSA |
| Region of western Asia Minor once settled by the Greeks | IONIA |
| Star Trek character played by George Takei | Hikaru Sulu |
| The first female Ukrainian to break into the top 10 tennis rankings, reaching No 3 in 2017 and 2019 | Elina Svitolina |
| The Greek god of war | ARES |
| The opposite of a vacuum | PLENUM |
| The second-highest civil award for bravery in both Canada and Australia | Star of Courage |
| The University of Oxford’s motto | Dominus illuminatio mea |
| UK prime minister whose first term in office came between Disraeli’s two | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Until 1920, an Italian car manufacturer’s acronymic name | ALFA |
| US feminist who co-founded the Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan | Gloria Steinem |
| Usually, the longer of the two main bones of the forearm | ULNA |
| Well-known ____ artists include Henri Rousseau and Beryl Cook | NAIVE |
| Zoological term meaning “tailless” | anurous |
| ____ declared his presidential candidacy on April 25, 2019 | Joe Biden |
| ____ plays for Everton and the Nigerian national team | Alex Iwobi |
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