| The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 267 |
| Clues | Answers |
| "I am determined to be ____ after my long day's botheration" (Mr Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities) | PEEVISH |
| "It is better to make mistakes than to ____" (Sri Chinmoy) | lie idle |
| "Those who trust us educate us" (____ by George Eliot) | daniel deronda |
| 1996 gothic horror film starring Julia Roberts as Dr Henry Jekyll's housemaid | Mary Reilly |
| 1998 Scottish black comedy film about four siblings preparing for their mother's funeral | ORPHANS |
| A benign fatty tumour | LIPOMA |
| A broad bay | BIGHT |
| A glazed opening in a roof | SKYLIGHT |
| A message and its replies on an Internet forum | THREAD |
| Actress who has had roles in Footballers' Wives, The Bill and Hollyoaks, as well as EastEnders | Gillian Taylforth |
| Although a box office failure, this 1991 Coen brothers film won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or award | Barton Fink |
| Arthur Sullivan's popular 1877 setting of an Adelaide Anne Procter poem | The Lost Chord |
| At the start of Red Dwarf, Dave Lister wakes from three million years in ____ | STASIS |
| Bert's roommate in Sesame Street | ERNIE |
| Car manufacturer whose models include the Aventador | LAMBORGHINI |
| Chewed stimulant of the Andes | COCA |
| Co-star of Jimmy Edwards in the BBC radio comedy series Take It From Here | Dick Bentley |
| Company which merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997 | BOEING |
| Croydon transmitting station is in the Upper ____ area of south London | NORWOOD |
| CS Lewis's fictional land, south of the River Shribble | NARNIA |
| English physicist who suggested the existence of a particular ionosphere layer | Oliver Heaviside |
| Extraordinary ____ is governmental transfer of a person to another country, to circumvent laws on human rights | RENDITION |
| Former monastery in North Yorks Moors National Park | Rievaulx Abbey |
| Former movement in India promoting the use of Indian-made products rather than imports | SWADESHI |
| French general who accepted Germany's request for an armistice to end the First World War | Ferdinand Foch |
| In bridge, if a contract is defeated, the penalty awarded to the defending side depends on the number of ____s | undertrick |
| Informally, prominent people, such as those in show-business | GLITTERATI |
| Leggings which formerly protected clothing from mud | spatterdashes |
| Louisiana and Yucatan both lie on this ocean basin | Gulf of Mexico |
| Music's Romantic period is sometimes described as ____ | post-classical |
| Percussion instrument with jingles on its perimeter | TAMBOURINE |
| Protagonist of a novella which ends with "God bless Us, Every One!" | Ebenezer Scrooge |
| Rhyming games | cramboes |
| Star of many films including Enter the Dragon | Bruce Lee |
| Strips on the side of woven fabric, preventing unravelling | SELVEDGES |
| Subordinate added items | ADJUNCTS |
| Swiss Alpine resort and, informally, the World Economic Forum hosted there annually | DAVOS |
| The capital of Jordan | AMMAN |
| The capital of Peru | LIMA |
| The imbalance between use of fossil fuels and counteractive measures | carbon debt |
| Tver, Kazan and Astrakhan are on this river | VOLGA |
| Watt-seconds | JOULES |
| West Indies bowler who took seven wickets for one run against Australia in 1993 | Curtly Ambrose |
| Willy Loman is the lead role in this Arthur Miller play | Death of a Salesman |
| Word for "beaten" which, in internet lingo, often has its first letter changed to P | OWNED |
| x.y.com is a ____ of y.com | subdomain |
| ____ has represented England in all formats of cricket | Moeen Ali |
| ____ warfare is named from its use in the Peninsular War | GUERRILLA |
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