The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 100
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Burns’ and ‘Bonfire’ can both precede this word | NIGHT |
| ‘Cain […] dwelt in the land of Nod, on ____ of Eden’ (Bible) | The East |
| ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be ____’ (The white rabbit, in the first words spoken in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) | Too late |
| ‘____ Superbrain’, Annie Jones’s character in Neighbours | Plain Jane |
| A birthmark | NAEVUS |
| A former lace-making town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire | Long Eaton |
| A serf in ancient Sparta | HELOT |
| Advertised aggressively or questionably | huckstered |
| An instance of sternutation | SNEEZE |
| Austrian social reformer Rudolf ____ founded an educational philosophy, still used in schools named after him | STEINER |
| Author of the 1687 work The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | Isaac Newton |
| Ballerina ____ Sibley often danced with Anthony Dowell | ANTOINETTE |
| Ben ____’s first TV success was as a co-writer of The Young Ones | ELTON |
| Body of water such as Bass, Otranto or Torres | STRAIT |
| Characteristic of old age | SENESCENT |
| Chemical solution which softens colours in a photographic work | TONER |
| Clay extracted near St Austell; its discovery crucially developed the manufacture of English porcelain | China stone |
| Communist state founded in 1922 | Soviet Union |
| Cumbrian village on the Kent estuary, in the northeast corner of Morecambe Bay | arnside |
| Cut of lamb for the Sunday joint | Leg of mutton |
| Dismiss a naughty pupil from class | Send out |
| Dramatist Joe ____ wrote Loot and What the Butler Saw | ORTON |
| Elgar’s Chanson de ___, was originally for violin and piano | MATIN |
| Flaring skirts on suits of armour | tonlets |
| Folk who lead a routine monotonous life | AUTOMATONS |
| Founding member of the Football League which won the European Cup in 1982 | Aston Villa |
| In 1841, John ____ became the first US vice president to succeed to the presidency without election | TYLER |
| In county cricket, Warwickshire’s home ground | EDGBASTON |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| In pantomime, Baron Hardup’s servant, who is often dressed in a bellboy’s costume | BUTTONS |
| Isabella, who wrote the Book of Household Management | Mrs Beeton |
| Island group reigned over by Queen Salote from 1918 to 1965 | TONGA |
| Ivan ____ won every tennis grand slam singles title except Wimbledon, and later coached Andy Murray | LENDL |
| John ___, English logician, best known for diagrams used in set theory | VENN |
| Limb of Dover in the Confederation of Cinque ports, and HQ of Saga | FOLKESTONE |
| Liverpool comedian ____ Sayle was the Comic Strip’s first emcee in the 1980s | ALEXEI |
| Magic, supposedly involving communication with the dead | NECROMANCY |
| Monteverdi opera, the earliest still regularly performed | ORFEO |
| One of 24 in an octave | Quarter tone |
| Prospector in the Californian gold rush | Forty-niner |
| Russian for ‘no’ | NYET |
| Savings for a future rainy day | Nest eggs |
| School founded by Henry VI in 1440 | Eton College |
| Simultaneously or immediately | at once |
| Something used to start an explosion | DETONATOR |
| State capital of Louisiana | Baton Rouge |
| Steve ____ was the 1980 Olympic 800m champion | OVETT |
| Summer outfit for a baby or young child | SUNSUIT |
| The only Celtic language spoken on mainland Europe | BRETON |
| The Spanish provinces of Alava and Vizcaya are such | BASQUE |
| The weight of a merchant ship’s cargo | TONNAGE |
| This craftsman may use an agraffe to hold blocks together | STONEMASON |
| Travelling at over 100 miles per hour | Ton-up |
| Type of sculpture originated by Alexander Calder | MOBILE |
| Type of vitreous pottery noted for its strength and durability | IRONSTONE |
| Virginia county, part of the Washington metropolitan area, where the Pentagon and a national cemetery are located | ARLINGTON |
| ____ Hill, 152m above sea level, is the highest point in Greater London north of the Thames | stanmore |
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