The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 204 | |
Clues | Answers |
& 34: The first line of Peter Pan | all children except one |
"Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the ____ doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again" (David Mitchell, in Cloud Atlas) | craftiest |
"The secrets of the hoary deep, ____ without bound" (Paradise Lost) | a dark illimitable ocean |
"There's such a ____ in melancholy / I would not, if I could, be gay" (Samuel Rogers) | CHARM |
"____ / Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard" (Cymbeline) | WEARINESS |
A colloquial description of someone or something unwanted, especially when reappearing | bad penny |
A mournful song, especially performed by a single voice | MONODY |
A second burial, normally in a different place | reinterment |
A state or culture characterised by humanitarianism, equality and political freedom | open society |
Actress who starred as Miss Marple on ITV, 2004-09 | Geraldine McEwan |
American term for a pushchair | STROLLER |
An animal that eats seeds | granivore |
An illusion of countryside created within a city | rus in urbe |
An Italian dish, literally a medley of fried things | fritto misto |
Art of making timepieces, or science of measuring time | HOROLOGY |
As a pejorative term, an alternative to "blackleg" | SCAB |
Bertie Wooster's haughty and overbearing aunt | AGATHA |
British astronomer credited with coining the phrase "big bang" | Fred Hoyle |
British guitarist, the only person to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame three times | Eric Clapton |
Car manufacturer, of Model S and Model X | TESLA |
Central character of a Hardy novel with seven "phases" | Tess Durbeyfield |
Features of Wagner's Ring, sometimes given names like "Magic sleep" or "Wotan's will frustrated" | LEITMOTIFS |
Goethe play for which Beethoven wrote incidental music including an overture | EGMONT |
Grammatical term describing Mary in both "Mary loved John" and "John was loved by Mary" | AGENT |
In Othello, the jealous lover of Cassio | BIANCA |
Informally, "a lot" | no end |
Joseph ____ wrote Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim | CONRAD |
Male given name which means "protector of wealth" | EDWARD |
Member of a Turkic ethnic group in eastern Siberia | YAKUT |
North American insect, with notable eyespots | io moth |
Of film, music etc, recorded and ready for release | in the can |
On an Italian menu, secondi piatti | main courses |
One of the two forms of English in Orwell's 1984 | oldspeak |
One who believes there is no universe, or no universe separate from God | acosmist |
Partner in an activity who watches out for another's safety | BUDDY |
Pat ____ was a player in Arsenal's 1971 double-winning team, and assistant manager when they won two other doubles | RICE |
Pennsylvania is known as the ____ state | KEYSTONE |
Russian dog, the first animal to orbit the earth, in 1957 | LAIKA |
See 31 | grow up |
The nearest city to the ruins of ancient Carthage | TUNIS |
The term "impressionism" was derived from a painting by this French artist | Claude Monet |
Those who, in law, are now commonly called claimants | PLAINTIFFS |
To add a new part to something originally made without it | RETROFIT |
To date, Denmark's only female prime minister, currently chief executive of Save the Children | Helle Thorning-Schmidt |
Type of stamp which may be produced in wartime, or when a currency changes | OVERPRINT |
William Morris was a leader of this decorative trend | Arts and Crafts Movement |
Work done by IGN and Freytag & Berndt | MAPMAKING |
____ sang with Lionel Richie in the 1981 hit Endless Love | Diana Ross |
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