| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 215 |
| Clues | Answers |
| 1999 romantic comedy film starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant | Notting Hill |
| A brood-pouch or egg capsule | OVISAC |
| A cricketer such as Glenn McGrath or Courtney Walsh | seam bowler |
| A house in Italy or Spain | CASA |
| A passage used in injection moulding, or the material from it, such as the framework holding parts in a modelling kit | SPRUE |
| A state of Brazil, its name meaning “thick bush” | Mato Grosso |
| A strong, crease-resistant synthetic fabric | TERYLENE |
| A venomous arachnid of the Latrodectus genus | black widow spider |
| American folk hero killed during a card game by Jack McCall | Wild Bill Hickok |
| American football position close to the tackle | tight end |
| An indigenous people of Kenya and Tanzania | MASAI |
| Author and broadcaster who gained fame as co-presenter of Through the Keyhole | Loyd Grossman |
| Burt Reynolds made his directorial debut with this 1976 action comedy film set in a swamp | GATOR |
| Capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | KINGSTOWN |
| Caravaggio work depicting the resurrected Jesus revealing himself to two disciples | Supper at Emmaus |
| Disastrous, devastating | CATASTROPHIC |
| Governing body of open-wheel racing in the USA | INDYCAR |
| Henry James novel of 1879 set in Switzerland and Italy | Daisy Miller |
| Host of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 since 2015 | Miles Jupp |
| Jennifer ____’s first TV appearance was as Calypso in Channel 4’s 1992 adaptation of The Camomile Lawn | EHLE |
| Leonid Brezhnev replaced ____ in 1964 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Maker of the “violin” bass guitar much used by Paul McCartney | HOFNER |
| Many energy drinks are labelled as ____ | ISOTONIC |
| Narrow-minded principles | insularism |
| Neighbours is set primarily in ____ Street | RAMSAY |
| Netherlands city which is a hub of radio and television broadcasting | HILVERSUM |
| Northanger Abbey character who leaves James Morland in favour of the wealthier Captain Tilney | Isabella Thorpe |
| One who studies fossils | PALAEONTOLOGIST |
| Poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, as often found in bullet-proof vests | KEVLAR |
| Property between Community Chest and Income Tax on a standard UK Monopoly board | Whitechapel Road |
| Punt mooring poles | ryepecks |
| Retired athlete who sometimes commentates in TV coverage of field events | Steve Backley |
| Ridden by Ben De Haan, winner of the 1983 Grand National | corbiere |
| Scottish-born philanthropist who said “The man who dies … rich dies disgraced” | Andrew Carnegie |
| Sheets of this plastic material are used on overhead projectors | ACETATE |
| Sole living member of the order Tubulidentata | AARDVARK |
| The “way of gentleness” as a martial art | JUDO |
| The bird stylised in the logo of Lufthansa | CRANE |
| The capital of Austria, to Austrians | WIEN |
| The capital of Upper Austria | LINZ |
| The chairing of the Bard is an important moment in the National ____ of Wales | EISTEDDFOD |
| The daughter of Al Hirschfield, whose name was frequently hidden in his illustrations | NINA |
| The Prime Minister of Belgium | Sophie Wilmes |
| The Vatican stands in Rome’s ____ City | LEONINE |
| The wetland plant purple ____ is visible in the Ophelia painting by John Everett Millais | LOOSESTRIFE |
| To divide a word into speech segments | syllabicate |
| Train of attendants or a funeral procession | CORTEGE |
| Verse form first used by Dante in the Divine Comedy | terza rima |
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