The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 399 December 3 2023 Answers
The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 399
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| #001 in Pokémon’s monster index | bulbasaur |
| “From ____” means all the way through | start to finish |
| “Much have I travell’d in the ____ of gold / And many goodly states and kingdoms seen” (Keats) | REALMS |
| “True ease in writing comes from ____, not chance” (Alexander Pope) | ART |
| “When your own life is threatened, your sense of ____ is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival” (Yann Martel in Life of Pi) | EMPATHY |
| 1977 comedy film based on The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark | Nasty Habits |
| 1982 film about “Dorothy Michaels” | TOOTSIE |
| A conservative shot in golf and an easy one in basketball | lay-up |
| Advertising slogan of Skittles confectionery | taste the rainbow |
| African port capital on the Mediterranean Sea | TUNIS |
| Author of Notes from a Small Island | Bill Bryson |
| Bird whose name refers to its large bill | GROSBEAK |
| Collective noun for monkeys | TROOP |
| Composer of Limp Preludes for a Dog | Erik Satie |
| Dame ____ was MI5’s first female director general | Stella Rimington |
| English electronics manufacturer bought out by Philips in 1976 | PYE |
| Erich ____ directed the 1924 silent film Greed | Von Stroheim |
| French architect who designed Federal City (later Washington DC) | Pierre Charles L’Enfant |
| French town which was famous for its lace in the 18th century | ALENCON |
| Gullets, in anatomy | OESOPHAGI |
| In bridge, to bid in the same suit as your partner | RAISE |
| In the words of Basil Fawlty, one who “appreciates the boudoir of the grape” (US spelling) | enophile |
| Kneading technique used in massage | petrissage |
| L’épouse d’un roi | REINE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Lead single from the Nirvana album Nevermind | Smells Like Teen Spirit |
| Novel character portrayed by Vivien Leigh in 1939 | Scarlett O’Hara |
| One of the three sub-atomic particles which are the lightest hadrons | pi-meson |
| Parma, Ferrara and Rimini are cities in this Italian region | Emilia-Romagna |
| Pertaining to prescribed drugs | PHARMACEUTICAL |
| Pertaining to wedlock | MARITAL |
| Pink single released in September 2002 | Family Portrait |
| Polish footballer who scored 19 goals for Arsenal (2012-2015) | Lukas Podolski |
| River which flows into the North Sea at Cuxhaven | ELBE |
| Shane Warne and Anil Kumble were notable ____s | leg spinner |
| Shellfish mentioned in the title of a 1980 single | MUSSELS |
| Sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler | The Thin Blue Line |
| Sport in which a player must release the ball within three seconds of receiving a pass | NETBALL |
| Subject of airline etiquette discussion | ARMREST |
| Surname of baseball’s “Sultan of Swat” | RUTH |
| Technical term for a living organism | BIONT |
| The birthplace of Christopher Columbus | GENOA |
| The coloured rings of irises | AREOLAE |
| The parasitic flatworm Fasciola hepatica | liver fluke |
| Town near Salisbury where carpets were made for about 250 years until 1995 | WILTON |
| Unemployed and claiming benefit, in Scotland | on the broo |
| US series of programmes and reforms which started in 1933 | new deal |
| ____ played the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire | Christian Slater |
| ____ Sky was Elton John’s 1969 debut album | EMPTY |