The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 408 February 4 2024 Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “I am surprised with an ____ fear” (Titus Andronicus) | UNCOUTH |
| “The children were ____ all snug in their beds” (The Night Before Christmas) | NESTLED |
| “You’ll make a mutiny among my guests, / You will set ____! You’ll be the man!” (Romeo and Juliet) | cock-a-hoop |
| 1928 Charlie Chaplin film in which he plays an unintentionally funny clown | The Circus |
| A potentially dangerous kind of antidote | counterpoison |
| A song or other work expressing praise | PAEAN |
| A withdrawal symptom of alcoholism | delirium tremens |
| Actor who played Captain Holt in Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Andre Braugher |
| Advanced hearing aid invented in 1957 | cochlear implant |
| Alien in a US sitcom seen on ITV 1987-89, also called Gordon Shumway | ALF |
| Aquatic plant which gives its name to an asana in yoga | LOTUS |
| Audi slogan used in a slightly amended form in the Blur song Parklife | Vorsprung Durch Technik |
| Author of Western novels including Shalako | Louis L’Amour |
| Before birth | in utero |
| Card game with Wellington or Blücher as the highest bid | NAP |
| Coniferous tree resin used in varnishes | gum sandarac |
| Device used to strengthen muscles | EXERCISER |
| Egg-shaped | OVOIDAL |
| Genus which includes pinks and sweet william | DIANTHUS |
| Graham Greene adapted his short story The Basement Room to produce the screen play for the 1948 film The ____ | Fallen Idol |
| Heroine of The Old Curiosity Shop | little nell |
| Humza Yousaf is leader of the ____ | Scottish National Party |
| Lazy Bones, developed in 1950, was the first ____ for television | remote control |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| National Park including the USA’s lowest point at Badwater Basin | Death Valley |
| Nevada location of F1 Grand Prix races in 1981 and 1982 | Caesars Palace |
| Oh ____ was the title of tennis commentator Dan Maskell’s autobiography | i say |
| Old light source with a type of grass used as a wick | rush candle |
| One of five events in a 1990s comedy film nominated for the best picture Oscar | FUNERAL |
| One type of contract in bridge | no-trump |
| Plant commonly called African daisy | GERBERA |
| Political exiles or refugees | EMIGRES |
| Popular cartoon character, as called by nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie | Unca Donald |
| Real-life footballer signed by Melchester Rovers in the Roy of the Rovers comic strip | Emlyn Hughes |
| Short item of attire originally worn by cheerleaders | ra-ra skirt |
| South Africa’s Drakensberg mountain range is on the eastern edge of the Central ____ | PLATEAU |
| Spanish port attacked twice by Francis Drake | VIGO |
| The cross of ____ appears on the flags of Genoa and Barcelona | st george |
| The name of the main location in this book series is based on that of a hill town in Umbria | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| The world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles | HONDA |
| Things being what they are | under the circumstances |
| To no longer have to tolerate something is to be ____ it | rid of |
| Tralee is the county town of ____ | KERRY |
| US informal term for new recruits | TENDERFEET |
| ____ and Nabucco are the well-known operas with prisoners’ choruses | FIDELIO |
| ____ Dei means Lamb of God | AGNUS |
| ____ minerals are those containing gold | auriferous |