| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 252 |
| Clues | Answers |
| “But I’m holding on for dear life, won’t look down, won’t ____” (Sia, Chandelier) | Open My Eyes |
| “Oh, I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, I’m an ____ in New York” (Sting) | ENGLISHMAN |
| “The Brickyard” is a racing circuit in this US state | INDIANA |
| “The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering ____, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water” (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) | SAMITE |
| “You made me feel a millionaire and ____, Madame Onassis got nothing on you” (Rod Stewart) | You Wear It Well |
| 1969 Norman Greenbaum hit covered by both Gareth Gates and Doctor and the Medics | Spirit In The Sky |
| 1982 film starring Al Pacino as a Broadway playwright | Author Author |
| 1988 Phil Collins hit with a tune based on a classical rondo by Muzio Clementi | A Groovy Kind Of Love |
| A descendant of a notable family | SCION |
| A medial moraine is formed from two ____ moraines when glaciers merge | LATERAL |
| A medieval singer-songwriter | TROUBADOUR |
| A name for the author of the book after Proverbs in the Old Testament | ECCLESIAST |
| A wavering tonal effect in music | TREMOLO |
| Adjective meaning facing the road | streetward |
| Animal such as Tilikum or the fictional Willy | ORCA |
| Another name for an egger’s hobby | OOLOGY |
| Author of The Beach and director of the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina | Alex Garland |
| Body of water in which Anglesey lies | irish sea |
| Fictional military organisation led by the Brigadier | UNIT |
| Film in which Alex loves “a bit of the old Ludwig van” | A Clockwork Orange |
| Football officials, officially “assistant referees” since 1996 | LINESMEN |
| In short, and so forth | ETC |
| Informally, New Zealand’s basketball team | Tall Blacks |
| Instruments associated with Rick Wakeman | KEYBOARDS |
| Long-standing Fender guitar model launched in 1951 | TELECASTER |
| Marmalade-loving creation of Michael Bond | PADDINGTON |
| Mel, Emma, Mel, Victoria and ____ | GERI |
| Motor sport using mixed-surface tracks | RALLYCROSS |
| Musician called the “architect of rock and roll” | Little Richard |
| Once called Memphis Recording Service, many seminal rock and roll records were cut here | Sun Studio |
| Phone directory advertised by JR Hartley | Yellow Pages |
| Released in 2001, debut album from the Strokes | Is This It |
| Secretive US base many wanted to storm in a 2019 internet meme | Area fifty-one |
| Semi-transparent white gems with a blue tinge | MOONSTONES |
| Tempts (someone) with possible pleasure or gain | ENTICES |
| The first female MP to sit in the House of Commons, in 1919 | Nancy Astor |
| The head of a diplomatic body | Chef de mission |
| The ____ Band, based in Treorchy, were the first non-English brass band to win the British Open championship, in 2000 | CORY |
| Title first held by Arthur Wellesley | Duke of Wellington |
| To bear witness | TESTIFY |
| US president between Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover | Calvin Coolidge |
| What JFK declared himself on June 26, 1963 | BERLINER |
| Wickedly fiendish | DEMONIC |
| Word that can come before income or razor | DISPOSABLE |
| Word that can follow skinny, lucky and sheep | DIP |
| Words commonly seen to the right of a holographic crown | Bank Of England |
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