| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 312 |
| Clues | Answers |
| "Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too many ____s in vain ever to hope for their extirpation" (Disraeli) | LANCE |
| "Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a ____" (Ray Bradbury) | Ouija board |
| "Taunts are not so sharp as ____" (The Song of Hiawatha) | ARROWS |
| "You shall not bob us out of our ____: if you do, our melancholy upon your head!" (Troilus and Cressida) | MELODY |
| "____ and wisdom are not opposing values" (Bill Clinton) | STRENGTH |
| 1951 black and white sci-fi film starring Cesar Romero | The Lost Continent |
| 19th-century professor of geology at Cambridge, who established the Cambrian period from research in Wales | Adam Sedgwick |
| A seducer of women in some 17th and 18th century plays | LOTHARIO |
| Apostle to whom a Gospel was traditionally attributed | MATTHEW |
| Arrangement allowing conflicting parties to coexist peacefully | modus vivendi |
| Australian-born photographer famed for her baby portraits and calendars | Anne Geddes |
| Bandleader who popularised Latin American music in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s | Edmundo Ros |
| Belgian actor noted for his roles in martial arts and action films | Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| Cake soaked in alcoholic syrup, often served with cream | rum baba |
| Collection of stories with morals, including The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs | Aesop's Fables |
| EastEnders character played by June Brown, 1985-93 and 1987-2020 | Dot Cotton |
| Ecclesiastical council; astrological conjunction of planets | SYNOD |
| Egyptian construction project of the 1960s, completed with assistance from Soviet Russia | aswan dam |
| Firearm intended to disperse crowds rather than cause serious injury | riot gun |
| Former boxer nicknamed The Dark Destroyer | Nigel Benn |
| Former state given nominal independence by South Africa in 1976, part of the Eastern Cape province since 1994 | TRANSKEI |
| Goldsmith play first called The Mistakes of a Night | She Stoops to Conquer |
| Historically, a band of Zulu warriors | IMPI |
| Holland and Belgium | the Low Countries |
| Impressionist Alfred ____ painted rural scenes around Paris | SISLEY |
| In maths, a ___ equals zero when multiplied by itself | NILPOTENT |
| Italian recipient of the 1997 Nobel literature prize | Dario Fo |
| Joints with flaring tenons fitting into matching mortises | DOVETAILS |
| Madagascan lemur; a nautical term showing compliance | aye-aye |
| Manhattan area between Houston Street and Canal Street | SOHO |
| Member of the sect associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls | ESSENE |
| Moon of Jupiter discovered from photographs taken by Voyager 1 in 1979 | THEBE |
| Pesticide banned in some countries since 1972 | DDT |
| Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death in 1984 | Sir John Betjeman |
| Proper conduct in Confucianism | TAO |
| Russian city on the Dnieper River, near the Belarus border | SMOLENSK |
| Site of the tower mentioned in Genesis 11 | BABEL |
| Sponging off others | on the scrounge |
| Tennis player ranked world No 1 in singles for a record 237 consecutive weeks | Roger Federer |
| The 1521 ____ declared Martin Luther to be an outlaw | diet of worms |
| The director of Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee |
| The scapula | shoulder blade |
| The single-word anagram of DENOMINATE | EMENDATION |
| The ____ flows through New York (state), Pennsylvania and Maryland | Susquehanna River |
| Theme song for the former soap opera Howards' Way | Always There |
| US English term meaning "allocated proportionately" | PRORATED |
| Vegetable called rutabaga in the US | SWEDE |
| ____ pear is an apple-shaped variety native to eastern Asia | NASHI |
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