| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 243 |
| Clues | Answers |
| “This mania of the mothers of the period, to be constantly in pursuit of a ____” (Stendhal) | son-in-law |
| “What is my love? That I ____ the bad features of a woman into a good picture” (Karl Kraus) | AMALGAMATE |
| 1965 comedy western with Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin | Cat Ballou |
| 1976 Blue Oyster Cult album which spawned the single (Don’t Fear) The Reaper | Agents of Fortune |
| A high-ranking ecclesiastical dignitary | PRELATE |
| A ruler with absolute power | autarch |
| Actor who played Q in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series | John de Lancie |
| American e-commerce site which specialises in handmade and vintage items | ETSY |
| An ____ child has no siblings | only-begotten |
| Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Henry VIII | Thomas Cranmer |
| Architectural moulding which is S-shaped in cross-section | OGEE |
| Band founded in 1967, whose best-selling album Supernatural was released in 1999 | SANTANA |
| Brazilian port and former capital of the Portuguese colony | SALVADOR |
| British athlete whose 3:46.32 mile at the 1985 Bislett Games is still the European record | Steve Cram |
| Capital city located on the River Tigris | BAGHDAD |
| Capital of Rhode Island | PROVIDENCE |
| Clay animation franchise featuring the theme music A Grand Day Out | Wallace and Gromit |
| Connections between railway carriages | COUPLINGS |
| Geological samples given to more than 100 foreign heads of state by the USA in 1973, many of which are now missing | moon rocks |
| Goblin product, most popular in the 1960s and 1970s | teasmade |
| Home secretary who introduced community service as an alternative to prison | Reginald Maudling |
| In a state of temporary disuse or suspension | ABEYANT |
| In The War of the Worlds, Professor Pierson walked “in a vague ____ direction” for two days | NORTHERLY |
| Instrument labelled as a yoke lute in organology | LYRE |
| Irish singer, a member of Clannad before her solo career | ENYA |
| Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men on the ____ is about a bicycle tour in the Black Forest | bummel |
| Knitting material; a drink of hot spiced ale and apple pulp | LAMBSWOOL |
| Major city of western Ukraine, near the Polish border | LVIV |
| Major transport hub situated on the River Liffey | Dublin Port |
| Novelist who wrote the screenplay for The Third Man | Graham Greene |
| Persian king who tried to invade Greece in 480BC | XERXES |
| Popularly, the item used in “vaping” | e-cigarette |
| Predecessor of Scotland’s N5, the exam before Highers | O grade |
| Presenter of Network 7 on Channel 4, and an early promoter of Sigue Sigue Sputnik | Magenta Devine |
| Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory was the world’s largest radio telescope until 2016 | ARECIBO |
| Scottish town where Skol lager was first produced | ALLOA |
| Sir Thomas Malory’s collection of chivalric legends, first published in 1485 | Le Morte d'Arthur |
| Site of the Luxor and Karnak temples | THEBES |
| The first BMW car was a licensed version of the ____ 7 | AUSTIN |
| The hardwood tree Tectona grandis | TEAK |
| The innermost sacred part of a temple | ADYTUM |
| The only man who has won the Tour de France for five years in a row | Miguel Indurain |
| The opposite of laity | CLERGY |
| The son of James II was known as the ____ | Old Pretender |
| The usual name for a barrister in Scotland | ADVOCATE |
| Thick noodle used in Japanese cookery | UDON |
| Wading bird worshipped by ancient Egyptians | IBIS |
| ____ fishing is angling for fish not in the salmon family | COARSE |
| ____ the Cat was a major cartoon star in the silent movie era | FELIX |
| ____’s novel An Awfully Big Adventure was filmed in 1995 | Beryl Bainbridge |
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