The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 101
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Jumping bow’, as an instruction for string players | arco saltando |
| 1970s Austin car, noted for its ‘Quartic’ steering wheel | ALLEGRO |
| 1982 single by Arrow, used in the film Blame It On Rio | Hot Hot Hot |
| A Buddhist shrine in Sri Lanka | dagoba |
| A file used to speed up the production of digital documents with consistent formatting | TEMPLATE |
| A fixed or unnatural grin or grimace | RICTUS |
| A guitar body finish, an orange-yellow centre fading to a black edge | SUNBURST |
| A name for the period approximately AD500-1000 | Dark Ages |
| A religious or philosophical doctrine | TENET |
| A substance producing colour, especially a powder mixed with liquid | PIGMENT |
| African member of the mongoose family | MEERKAT |
| American feminist author of Sexual Politics | Kate Millett |
| Comedy drama series set on the Chatsworth council estate | SHAMELESS |
| Comic actor whose roles included Lord Flashheart in Blackadder | Rik Mayall |
| Decorative container for a flowerpot | CACHEPOT |
| Deer ticks are the vector for ____ disease | LYME |
| East London Thames crossing, opened in 1897 | Blackwall Tunnel |
| Emma ____, anarchist deported by the USA to the Soviet Union in 1919 | GOLDMAN |
| Flat round bread of Scottish origin | BANNOCK |
| Fleshy envelope surrounding a seed | ARIL |
| Former editor of The Times, 1967-81, later chairman of the Arts Council | William Rees-Mogg |
| Founder of an American fashion house which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year | Calvin Klein |
| Freundel Stuart is the prime minister of this island | BARBADOS |
| German art historian (1866-1929), whose library became a research institute, now located in London | Aby Warburg |
| German musical equivalent of lento | langsam |
| Global sporting goods retailer founded in France in 1976 | DECATHLON |
| Greek muse of dance, often portrayed with a lyre | TERPSICHORE |
| Historical musical instrument, often played in an ensemble with cornetts | SACKBUT |
| Host city of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games | SOCHI |
| House to which Juliet belongs in Romeo and Juliet | CAPULET |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Ibsen play, Et dukkehjem in (Bokmal) Norwegian | A Doll’s House |
| In ballet, a bending of the knees while upright | PLIE |
| Instrument used for examining the ear | OTOSCOPE |
| Japanese port at the mouth of the Yodo River | OSAKA |
| Jewish calendar month in which the shofar is blown every morning except on Shabbat | ELUL |
| Latin for ‘tortoise’, also a formation of shields used as protection by Roman soldiers | TESTUDO |
| Lead single from Pink’s 2017 album Beautiful Trauma | What About Us |
| Lower part of a ridge, between two peaks | SADDLE |
| Luigi was a character in this 1985 Nintendo video game (spoken form) | Super Mario Brothers |
| Naval battle at which Nelson was mortally wounded | TRAFALGAR |
| Ogden Nash completed this author’s unfinished work The Scroobious Pip | Edward Lear |
| Popular Christmas plant named after a US diplomat and amateur botanist | POINSETTIA |
| Region of France noted for crêpes and galettes | BRITTANY |
| Rome’s ____ fountain is at the junction of three roads | TREVI |
| Scottish equivalent of mayor | PROVOST |
| Stages in the manufacture and distribution of a product | supply chain |
| Stephen King novel which followed his debut Carrie | ‘Salem’s Lot |
| Stretch of water in which the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989 | Prince William Sound |
| Substances such as agar gel, as used in Petri dishes | culture media |
| Substances which remove moisture | desiccants |
| The lover of Acis, originally in Ovid’s Metamorphoses | GALATEA |
| The maple and sycamore genus | ACER |
| The original route of New York State’s ____ Canal was from Albany to Buffalo | ERIE |
| The team defeated by 38A | New England Patriots |
| The ____ du Midi is a mountain near Mont Blanc, with a cable car service to the summit | AIGUILLE |
| To be of the same mind, or to happen simultaneously | CONCUR |
| Walt Disney character who said ‘When the baby moves in, the dog moves out’ | TRAMP |
| Washington’s state capital | OLYMPIA |
| White-spotted fish similar to turbot | BRILL |
| Winners of the 2018 Super Bowl | Philadelphia Eagles |
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