| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 329 |
| Clues | Answers |
| "In ____, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles" (David Ben-Gurion) | ISRAEL |
| "Life is very short and there's no time / For fussing and fighting my friend" (____, The Beatles) | We Can Work It Out |
| "Nixon was so crooked that he ____ servants to help him screw his pants on every morning" (Hunter S Thompson) | NEEDED |
| "Oh I want to take you home / I want to give you children / You might be my ____, yeah" (Pulp) | GIRLFRIEND |
| "On the _____, nobody knows you're a dog" (from a Peter Steiner New Yorker cartoon) | INTERNET |
| "Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a ____" (Blondie) | Heart Of Glass |
| "The ____ is political" (Feminist political slogan) | PERSONAL |
| "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery" (_____) | John Lennon |
| 1932 film in which Greta Garbo wanted "to be alone" | Grand Hotel |
| 1997 Booker prize winner, for The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| A brandy made from morello cherry juice | KIRSCH |
| A more common term for potassium carbonate | POTASH |
| A portable cooking appliance and food warmer | HOTPLATE |
| A ____ implant may help deaf people to perceive sounds | COCHLEAR |
| According to a wartime saying, American soldiers in England were "____, oversexed and over here" | OVERPAID |
| Actor nominated for Oscars for roles in The English Patient and Schindler's List | Ralph Fiennes |
| Actor whose 1959 autobiography My Wicked, Wicked Ways was published posthumously | Errol Flynn |
| Actress who played the lead in Atonement | Keira Knightley |
| Best-selling Ford model of the 1980s and 1990s | ESCORT |
| Billy Joel hit covered by Westlife in 2001 | Uptown Girl |
| Birth and burial place of potter Josiah Wedgwood | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Chinese romanization system, used by the UN since 1986 | PINYIN |
| Danny Boyle's directorial debut, a 1994 Edinburgh-set black comedy | Shallow Grave |
| Effete men overly-concerned with appearance | FOPS |
| First non-Oxbridge university to be ranked first in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide (2022 edition) | Saint Andrews |
| Glenn Miller hit covered by Celine Dion in 2002 | at last |
| Henry ____ coined the phrase "She who must be obeyed" | Rider Haggard |
| In football, this is increased by injuries, but not throw-ins | stoppage time |
| In Greek myth, a monster such as Medusa | GORGON |
| In human anatomy, this is connected to the caecum | APPENDIX |
| In simple music, other words for the same notes as "Three blind mice" | hot cross buns |
| Insects that steal and enslave the pupae of other insects | Amazon Ants |
| Member of a left-wing society founded in 1884, named after a Roman general known as Cunctator | FABIAN |
| Mumtaz Mahal's mausoleum was built in this city | AGRA |
| Name for Gabriel Syme in a 1908 GK Chesterton novel | THURSDAY |
| Nationality of a person born in Bamako | MALIAN |
| New York borough containing Prospect Park | BROOKLYN |
| Novel about the sex life of poet Isadora Wing on a trip to Europe | Fear of Flying |
| Pontiff and scholar who, according to medieval legend, gave birth during a procession | Pope Joan |
| Second film in a franchise starring Sigourney Weaver | ALIENS |
| Shipping forecast area between Lundy and Malin | irish sea |
| Singer who had a Superbowl "wardrobe malfunction" | Janet Jackson |
| Specialised cutting tool, sometimes called shears | tin snips |
| Term for the larva of an insect such as a beetle | GRUB |
| Thetford is home to a statue of actor Arthur ____ | LOWE |
| Title held by a religious leader like a Sufi master | SHEIKH |
| Waters off the coast of Vietnam where the USS Maddox was allegedly attacked twice in August 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin |
| ____ played Tony Montana in Scarface | Al Pacino |
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