| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 228 |
| Clues | Answers |
| "But ____, just to watch him die" (Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues) | I shot a man in Reno |
| "Good company and good ____ are the very sinews of virtue" (Izaak Walton) | DISCOURSE |
| "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ____" (Ambrose Bierce) | UNKNOWABLE |
| 1973 single by Roxy Music; 1979 album by the Crusaders | Street Life |
| A Berkshire town; marshy ground; to shed skin | SLOUGH |
| A name for romantic affection which is seen as trite or clichéd | LURVE |
| A ____ allows both conventional and microwave cooking | combination oven |
| America's Buckeye state | OHIO |
| Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree centigrade | CALORIE |
| An American duplex house contains two ____ | APARTMENTS |
| Ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers | MESOPOTAMIA |
| Ancient Roman novel by Petronius Arbiter, about licentious adventures in southern Italy | SATYRICON |
| Anne ____ played Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street and Jean in Dinnerladies | REID |
| Another name for London pride, or in North America, catchfly | none-so-pretty |
| Antiviral protein produced by infected cells | INTERFERON |
| Apple Inc's headquarters are in this Californian city | cupertino |
| Arts-based documentary series aired since 1975, mainly on BBC Two | ARENA |
| Austria's first female chancellor, appointed on an interim basis after the 2019 Ibiza-gate scandal | Brigitte Bierlein |
| Babbitt was one of this US author's best-known books | Sinclair Lewis |
| Capital of the Limburg province of the Netherlands | MAASTRICHT |
| Colloquially, a cold-stimulus headache induced by eating ice cream, for example | brain freeze |
| Colloquially, a tablet of the drug Ecstasy | disco biscuit |
| European country with about half the area of the UK, but a similar length of coastline | GREECE |
| Exclamation, usually subdued, used to express annoyance | GRRR |
| Ford model whose name came to be synonymous with commercial failure | EDSEL |
| Former acronym now largely replaced by GUI (Graphical User Interface), from four of its important elements | WIMP |
| French word for a (full-sized) cup | TASSE |
| In 1963, Richie ____ became the first player to reach 200 wickets and 2,000 runs in Test cricket | BENAUD |
| In Australia, a gathering of pickup trucks for display and competition | ute muster |
| In the US, an expert | MAVEN |
| Netflix black comedy series written by and starring Ricky Gervais as widower Tony | After Life |
| Nintendo console launched in 2001, discontinued in 2007 | gamecube |
| One spelling of the name for a sterile male hybrid of a yak and a cow | dzho |
| Optical illusion created by the refraction of light | MIRAGE |
| Pertaining to the belief that natural objects have souls | ANIMISTIC |
| Port at the mouth of the River Wear | SUNDERLAND |
| Posh Spice | Victoria Beckham |
| Skintight garment named after a French trapeze artist | LEOTARD |
| South Wales town with a Ford engine plant and Sony's UK Technology Centre | BRIDGEND |
| The birthplace of Beethoven | BONN |
| The first monarch of Russia to use the title of Tsar | ivan the terrible |
| The owner of Chelsea FC | Roman Abramovich |
| The underworld or, euphemistically, part of the body | nether regions |
| Things to be believed, especially articles of faith | CREDENDA |
| This may erupt without producing lava | TOOTH |
| This meal may be Cornish or Devonian | cream tea |
| ____ assassinated John F Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| ____ revolutionised steel production in the 1850s | Sir Henry Bessemer |
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