The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 106
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| … or this crested European bird with pink plumage | HOOPOE |
| ‘Everything a Motorhome Should Be’ is the slogan of this US brand | WINNEBAGO |
| ‘Not a wery nice neighbourhood’ according to Sam Weller | WHITECHAPEL |
| & 38 Savoy duo whose first collaboration was Thespis [three-word answer] | GILBERT |
| A chain for a fob watch | ALBERT |
| A fine strong silky fabric | NINON |
| A German count with jurisdiction over a territory | LANDGRAVE |
| A judge’s comments made in passing, but of persuasive authority | Obiter dicta |
| A person’s particular fears and dislikes | Betes noires |
| A plastic explosive, originally made in Czechoslovakia | SEMTEX |
| A program replacing the usual monitor image when a computer is not in use | Screen saver |
| A severe reprimand | Talking-to |
| A slender hardwood spear from southern Africa | ASSEGAI |
| A space-walking astronaut’s essential connection to the spacecraft | Umbilical cord |
| A state in western Brazil, and a high plateau which extends further | Mato Grosso |
| A volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea | ISCHIA |
| Alfred ____, English poet, best known for his ballad The Highwayman | NOYES |
| American cats which resemble leopards | OCELOTS |
| An early type of oboe | HAUTBOY |
| Ancient British tribe which rebelled against the Romans in AD61 | ICENI |
| Australian cricket captain banned after the ball-tampering episode during the Cape Town Test in March | Steve Smith |
| Bexhill, Hastings and Uckfield are in this county | East Sussex |
| Burghley House is near to this Lincolnshire market town | STAMFORD |
| Cartoonist and illustrator Gerald ____ has worked for The Sunday Times and Pink Floyd | SCARFE |
| Citizens of Entebbe | UGANDANS |
| Custard dessert covered in caramelised sugar | Creme brulee |
| Danish city where Hans Christian Andersen was born | ODENSE |
| Diluted perfume | Eau de toilette |
| Ductless gland in the neck producing white blood cells in one’s early years | THYMUS |
| Either of the two cavities of the heart into which blood passes from the veins | ATRIUM |
| Florentine painter of The Birth of Venus | BOTTICELLI |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| French author of the novel series La Comedie Humaine | BALZAC |
| Friar’s lantern or ignis fatuus | Will-o’-the-wisp |
| Historically, this industry was located in stannaries | Tin mining |
| Ibsen drama about gender roles in marriage | A Doll’s House |
| In March, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi was controversially re-elected as the president of this country | EGYPT |
| Japan’s largest island where Mount Fuji is located | HONSHU |
| Jean-Honoré ____ painted The Stolen Kiss which hangs in the Hermitage Museum | FRAGONARD |
| Judith ____, lead singer of the Seekers | DURHAM |
| London area where Bartholomew Fair was held, 1133-1855 | smithfield |
| Mike ____, the boxer who bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a 1997 fight | TYSON |
| Name linking Fittipaldi, Ralph Waldo and Roy | EMERSON |
| Namely | To wit |
| One exploring Gaping Ghyll or Rhino Rift | POTHOLER |
| One observing a mavis, merle or goatsucker … | ORNITHOLOGIST |
| Related on the father’s side | AGNATE |
| Relating to dreams | ONEIRIC |
| Scottish dance for four couples | Eightsome reel |
| See 48 | and sullivan |
| Swiss city which is the seat of the International Olympic Committee | LAUSANNE |
| Thane of Lochaber whose ghost appears in Macbeth | BANQUO |
| The 19th century’s supreme piano virtuoso, and composer of the Faust Symphony | LISZT |
| The cashew tree; a kind of mahogany | ACAJOU |
| The Centre of Alternative Technology is near this town in Powys | MACHYNLLETH |
| The ____ Sea is the place where eels breed | SARGASSO |
| Title borne by certain Muslim princes | AMEER |
| Town in southern Herefordshire which promotes itself as ‘the birthplace of tourism’ | Ross-on-Wye |
| Toxic element formerly used in rat poison | THALLIUM |
| TV comedian who did things ‘in the best possible taste’ | Kenny Everett |
| US jazz pianist whose big band played Li’l Darlin’ | Count Basie |
| Violent action leading to a change in government | coup d’etat |
| Waters separating Korea from the east coast of China | Yellow Sea |
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