The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 253 | |
Clues | Answers |
"A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure" according to Ambrose Bierce | ABSTAINER |
"Cynicism is humour in ____" (HG Wells) | ill health |
"Nevertheless I have somewhat ____ thee, because thou hast left thy first love" (Revelation ii, 4) | AGAINST |
"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In ____, in the twinkling of an eye" (I Corinthians xv, 51-52) | a moment |
1909 novel by HG Wells, the story of "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty" | Ann Veronica |
1980 single by Madness which followed Baggy Trousers | EMBARRASSMENT |
1987 comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy | Three Men And A Baby |
A biblical word for Hell | GEHENNA |
A medium-dry sherry | AMONTILLADO |
Amores was probably the first completed book by the Roman poet ____ | OVID |
Beryl ____ played Bertha Hunter in the film version of No Sex Please, We're British | REID |
Biblical bringer of a caravan of gifts to King Solomon | Queen of Sheba |
Cinema's "Biggest Dog in the World" | DIGBY |
Co-star with Pauline Collins in the film Shirley Valentine | Tom Conti |
Collections of clothing and linen for newborn babies | LAYETTES |
DJ known popularly as Fluff | Alan Freeman |
Easternmost of the Canary Islands | LANZAROTE |
Either of two philosophical views: that rights rulers have no limits, and that some moral standards are inviolable | ABSOLUTISM |
English and actor and director born on Valentine's Day 1970 | Simon Pegg |
Explorer, the "father of Eskimology" and the first European to cross the Northwest Passage by dog sled | Knud Rasmussen |
Form of transport, (le) telepherique in French | cable car |
In a curious manner | wonderingly |
In classical mythology, Hercules killed this nine-headed monster | HYDRA |
In the context of equipment, unsophisticated | lo-tech |
Jennifer ____ starred with Colin Firth in the BBC's 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice | EHLE |
Jill Valentine is a main character in this video game franchise | Resident Evil |
Mafia family members who advise dons | consiglieri |
Member of a Jewish sect founded by Israel Ben Eliezer | HASID |
Narrator of the BBC Radio series Appointment with Fear, played by Valentine Dyall | The Man in Black |
Northumberland's Holy Island | LINDISFARNE |
Old-style transporters of goods | WAGONERS |
One of two Victorian headmistresses who, in a satirical poem, "Cupid's darts do not feel" | Dorothea Beale |
Poet who popularised the limerick | Edward Lear |
Primo ____'s If This Is A Man recorded his experience as a prisoner at Auschwitz | LEVI |
River, part of the boundary between Ontario and New York | NIAGARA |
Rock ____, TV series about the fictional band Little Ladies | FOLLIES |
Roman name for the Isle of Wight | VECTIS |
Small, thin sausages | CHIPOLATAS |
Stage name of Guns N' Roses guitarist Saul Hudson | SLASH |
Textile fabric and related merchandise | soft goods |
The meaning of the given name Valentine | strong and healthy |
The military equivalent of playing truant | AWOL |
The muse of music | EUTERPE |
To have a striking appearance or play a prominent role | cut a figure |
Type of iron ore producing the colour in red ochre | HAEMATITE |
Video hosting website launched on Valentine's Day 2005 | YOUTUBE |
____ beans were domesticated in the Andes, around 2000BC | LIMA |
____ hydrate was the name for a form of alcohol used as an anaesthetic until the 1950s | amylene |
____ is also known as milk sugar | LACTOSE |
____ jaws give a hollow appearance to the cheeks | LANTERN |
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