| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 259 |
| Clues | Answers |
| "At the present moment, the whole fleet is ____" (Thomas Woodrooffe, in a notorious broadcast) | lit up |
| 1978 arcade game featuring descending aliens | space invaders |
| A person currently holding an office | INCUMBENT |
| Actor who won Tony awards playing King Mongkut | Yul Brynner |
| Animal with varieties such as blue, white and lemon | SHARK |
| Animal with varieties such as death, night and puff | ADDER |
| Another name for the white poplar | ABELE |
| Blackthorn fruit often used to make flavoured gin | SLOE |
| Borough in which Coney Island is located | BROOKLYN |
| Building that houses the Household Cavalry Museum | Horse Guards |
| Capital of Pakistan's Punjab province | LAHORE |
| City that had the world's tallest building, 1975-2007 | TORONTO |
| Common language of the 5th-century BC Persian empire | ARAMAIC |
| Coral bank where Captain Cook's ship ran aground in 1770 | Endeavour Reef |
| Country in which Chernobyl is found | UKRAINE |
| Exclamation of surprise probably derived from a US journalist and sport promoter's name | Gordon Bennett |
| Football stadium that is home to Derby County | Pride Park |
| Form of exhibitionism first seen in the mid-1970s | STREAK |
| Former Tory MP who became leader of Change UK | Anna Soubry |
| French general, a national hero in one world war, seen as a traitor in another | PETAIN |
| In the wireless telegraphy era, a glass tube inside which iron filings clinging together indicated a radio signal | COHERER |
| Italian composer who spent most of his life in France and is best-known for the opera Médée | CHERUBINI |
| Jail where Oscar Wilde was imprisoned, 1895-97 | READING |
| James Ducat's job on the Flannan Isles until he and his colleagues disappeared in 1900 | lighthouse keeper |
| Job in which Chuck Yeager broke a world record twice | test pilot |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr _____ was Susanna Clarke's debut novel and a 2015 BBC drama series | norrell |
| Joseph ____ was King of Spain, 1808-13 | BONAPARTE |
| Medical term for a general loss of feeling in part of the body | ANAESTHESIA |
| Mike ____, was a Monkee and the heir to a typewriter correction fluid fortune | NESMITH |
| Object used to assassinate Leon Trotsky | ice pick |
| Old Glory is another term for the ____ | stars and stripes |
| Playwright Bonnie ____ has been a regular contributor to Newsnight Review | GREER |
| Pop band that has a parodic tribute act called Björn Again | ABBA |
| Poverty-focused author of Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell |
| Russian author Boris ____ was forced to decline the 1958 Nobel literature prize | PASTERNAK |
| Small dog also known as a monkey terrier | AFFENPINSCHER |
| Song that Paul McCartney said came to him in a dream | YESTERDAY |
| Songbird with streaked plumage, also known as a titlark | PIPIT |
| Teaching session with a small number of students | TUTORIAL |
| The National Water Sports Centre is on this river | TRENT |
| Tony ____ sang and played guitar in the short-lived 1970s band Ugly Rumours | BLAIR |
| Traditional Punjabi music crossed with western pop | BHANGRA |
| US State, home to Theodore Roosevelt National Park | North Dakota |
| Web browser launched by a Norwegian company in 1995 | OPERA |
| What links Weissmuller, Burroughs and Heseltine? | TARZAN |
| What one calls a native of the City of Brotherly Love | PHILADELPHIAN |
| What You Waiting For? was a debut solo single for Gwen ____ in 2004 | STEFANI |
| Words such as he, she, they and it | personal pronouns |
| ____ began a war memoir with this prologue: "After Puckoon I swore I would never write another novel. This is it …" | spike milligan |
| ____ won the 1978 Booker prize for The Sea, The Sea | iris murdoch |
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