| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 248 |
| Clues | Answers |
| "I do not literally paint that ____, but the emotion it produces upon me" (Matisse) | TABLE |
| "I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing ____" (King Lear) | ARGUMENTS |
| "It is not ____ you're wearing out, / But human creatures' lives" (Thomas Hood, Song of the Shirt) | LINEN |
| 1974 single by Paul McCartney and Wings, named after McCartney's black labrador | JET |
| 1985 epic war film based on King Lear, its name being Japanese for "chaos" | RAN |
| 2020 Dua Lipa album which was No 1 in 12 countries | Future Nostalgia |
| A greyhound emerges from a ____ at the start of a race | TRAP |
| A Hindu faith teacher or mystic | MAHARISHI |
| A tea-like infusion of herbs or flowers | TISANE |
| A ____ curve is formed by a cord hanging from two points | CATENARY |
| Antelope of southern Africa, normally with slender white vertical stripes and (males only) spiral horns | NYALA |
| Archaically, that which may ring to signal danger | larum-bell |
| Author of the 1998 novel About a Boy | Nick Hornby |
| Bacterial infection, resistant to antibiotics, which spread outside healthcare settings in the 1990s | MRSA |
| Beta blocker used to treat hypertension and migraine | timolol |
| British general who died in the hour of victory when capturing Quebec from the French in 1759 | James Wolfe |
| Capital of Georgia | TBILISI |
| Cartoon film seen as the debut of Mickey Mouse | Steamboat Willie |
| City on the Moselle, thought to be Germany's oldest | TRIER |
| Clothing retailer which overtook Marks & Spencer to become the UK's largest in 2012 | NEXT |
| County town of Tipperary | CLONMEL |
| Description of Africa popularised in the title of an 1878 book by Henry Morton Stanley | Dark Continent |
| Drupe fruits with flesh firmly attached to the pit | clingstones |
| Early 21st-century colloquialism, meaning "completely" | TOTES |
| Edible fruit of trees in the genus Corylus, part of the birch family | HAZELNUT |
| Footballer whose Liverpool and England captaincies were followed by one on A Question of Sport | Emlyn Hughes |
| Form of baccarat enjoyed by James Bond | Chemin de fer |
| Gary Busey starred in the 1978 biographical film The ____ | Buddy Holly Story |
| Generic name for a pet dog, from Latin "I trust" | FIDO |
| Genus whose only living member is the edible dormouse | glis |
| George Eliot novel subtitled The Weaver of Raveloe | Silas Marner |
| Goalkeeper with two Scotland caps, signed by Rangers in June 2020 after two seasons with Sunderland | Jon McLaughlin |
| Iconic space vessel of the Star Wars films | Millennium Falcon |
| In law, actual evidence that a crime has been committed | corpus delicti |
| Informally, a person whose identity is unconfirmed | A N Other |
| Inhabitant of a region now comprising parts of northern Sudan and southern Egypt | NUBIAN |
| London venue with the UK's second largest pipe organ | Royal Albert Hall |
| Masonry, typically used for facing, of square-cut stones | ASHLAR |
| Name of an area in both central London and Manhattan | SOHO |
| Norwegian city, home of the world's northernmost medieval cathedral | TRONDHEIM |
| Of a part of the body, swollen, or of literature, pompous | TUMID |
| Saris mainly made in Bangladesh's capital city | dhakais |
| Signalling device seen on some old vehicles | trafficator |
| Sleight of hand | LEGERDEMAIN |
| Stand-up whose 2017 tour was called An' Another Fing | Micky Flanagan |
| Surname of Keith who formed a prog rock group in 1970 with Greg and Carl | EMERSON |
| The holy of holies | sanctum sanctorum |
| The ____ is a 1992 satirical film about Hollywood, starring Tim Robbins and Greta Scacchi | PLAYER |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? was a 1977 hit for ____ | Racing Cars |
| ____ at coastguard stations may warn of high winds | storm cones |
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