The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 325 | |
Clues | Answers |
"He play'd an ancient ditty ____ mute, / In Provence call'd, ‘La belle dame sans merci'" (Keats) | long since |
"The main ____ of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history" (Harold Wilson) | ESSENTIALS |
"You've had a cream of a ____ dream" (Sweeney Agonistes, TS Eliot) | NIGHTMARE |
A dictator or despot | absolute ruler |
A malicious written or verbal attack | hatchet job |
A shrimp, crab or lobster | DECAPOD |
A structure protecting plants; informally, a military prison | GLASSHOUSE |
A symptom of this hereditary disease is difficulty in absorbing nutrients from food | cystic fibrosis |
An important contest in cycling or horse racing | CLASSIC |
Austrian-born winner of the 1945 Nobel physics prize for his exclusion principle | Wolfgang Pauli |
Author whose best-known character first appeared in an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995 | Helen Fielding |
Boise is the capital of this US state | IDAHO |
Central character of Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel of 1748 | Clarissa Harlowe |
County in which many Hardy novels are set | DORSET |
English actress remembered for her husky voice and double entendres | Fenella Fielding |
English spelling of a name for soccer teams in Bucharest, Tirana and Zagreb | DYNAMO |
Equipment on which engines etc are trialled before production | test bed |
First sequel to a novel about a red-haired Canadian girl | Anne of Avonlea |
French stew, usually of beef, with wine and herbs | DAUBE |
German group who had a 1984 hit with Big in Japan | alphaville |
Great Britain or England, in Australian and NZ slang | Old Dart |
Holder of the female 100m and 200m British records | Dina Asher-Smith |
In a fugue, a section with overlapping contrapuntal voices | STRETTO |
In Greek mythology, the brother of Electra | ORESTES |
In IT, a set of rules about a type of data, such as the presence of a grid and clues in a file representing a crossword | SCHEMA |
Informally, a portable music source that preceded the Walkman and iPod | TRANNIE |
Informally, in the US, to achieve profitable success | hit pay dirt |
Iron-tipped spear used historically in southern Africa | ASSEGAI |
Italian baritone who sang as Scarpia in many Tosca performances with Maria Callas | Tito Gobbi |
Mainly North American name for a notebook | scratch pad |
Musical genre popularised by Saturday Night Fever | DISCO |
Mystery thriller film set in swinging Sixties London, winner of the 1967 Palme d'Or at Cannes | blow-up |
Palma is the capital of this archipelago | Balearic Islands |
Perchance | UNINTENTIONALLY |
Poetic repetition of sounds, as used in Poe's "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" | ASSONANCE |
Possible result of (UK) annual inflation over 9 per cent | pay rise |
Roger Moore's first James Bond film | Live and Let Die |
State whose capital, Salvador, was Brazil's first capital city | BAHIA |
Stopping of parliamentary activity without dissolution | prorogation |
The earliest known printing of this US slang term for "excellent" was in 1951 | NEATO |
The little ____ is an aquatic bird also called "dabchick" | GREBE |
The only character seen in all of CS Lewis's Narnia books | ASLAN |
The second of David Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" albums | HEROES |
The Smiths and the "Madchester" scene both influenced this musical genre | BRITPOP |
To verbally intimidate an opponent in cricket | SLEDGE |
Toto's debut single of 1978 | Hold the Line |
Where to see Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights | Museo del Prado |
World ____ are events showcasing national achievements, held quinquennially since 2000 | EXPOS |
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