| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 127 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Old”, or barley wine | strong ale |
| 1996 film in which Tom Hanks was co-star, director and screenwriter | That Thing You Do |
| A degree, or part of one, awarded when exams are missed because of illness | AEGROTAT |
| A generous or gullible person | easy touch |
| A reindeer skin boot with the fur on the outside | finnesko |
| A tiny circus performer | FLEA |
| A vehicle for travel on frozen surfaces | ice yacht |
| Added to a team, usually with a specific objective in mind | drafted in |
| An arthropod’s sensory appendage | ANTENNA |
| Antique British pottery inspired by ancient Greece | Etruscan ware |
| Author who declined the 1958 Nobel prize in literature | Boris Pasternak |
| Author whose best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse | Francoise Sagan |
| Cartoonist who depicted pupils of St Custard’s and St Trinian’s | Ronald Searle |
| Classical author of The Art of Love and Cures for Love | OVID |
| Compact ____ was the official name for this recording format | CASSETTE |
| Conflict of the late 17th century, between France and several other European nations | War of the Grand Alliance |
| Construction of this northern frontier barrier of the Roman empire began around AD142 | Antonine Wall |
| Despite its name, most of this foodstuff is produced in England | Caerphilly cheese |
| Districts of this county include Charnwood and Harborough | LEICESTERSHIRE |
| Drummer Cozy ____ played for bands including Whitesnake and Black Sabbath | POWELL |
| Flann ____, pseudonymous author of The Third Policeman | O’Brien |
| Floyd ____ won 1952 Olympic middleweight gold and became world heavyweight champion in 1956 | PATTERSON |
| Form of rapture expressed by Nanki-Poo in The Mikado | MODIFIED |
| Former power source for dental drills | TREADLE |
| French for “behind” or “backwards” | en arriere |
| Greenham Common was the UK’s best-known example of this form of protest | peace camp |
| Gumbo, or ladies’ fingers | OKRA |
| John ____ was the BBC’s first and longest-serving director general | REITH |
| Landscape gardener ____ is best known for his work at Versailles | Andre Le Notre |
| Lava before we can see it | MAGMA |
| Lewis Carroll’s caricature of himself in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | DODO |
| Mark Twain’s real name | Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| Member of a medieval trade association | GUILDSMAN |
| Member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Coming | SHAKER |
| Mrs Flintstone | WILMA |
| Muhammad’s father-in-law, the first Muslim caliph | Abu-Bakr |
| Nationality of every 1960s Olympic marathon champion | ETHIOPIAN |
| One of the south Oxfordshire towns which combine to produce Causton in Midsomer Murders | THAME |
| Ores of this metal include sphalerite and smithsonite | ZINC |
| Reptile which can live for many decades | Galapagos giant tortoise |
| Roman Catholic organisation founded by Josemaria Escriva in 1928 | Opus Dei |
| Russia’s Republic of ____ has a coast on the Caspian Sea | DAGESTAN |
| Sicilian coastal town where DH Lawrence lived in the early 1920s | taormina |
| Squirrel-sized New World monkey | TAMARIN |
| Study of past mining, manufacturing, transport and public utilities | industrial archaeology |
| Swedish for Sweden | SVERIGE |
| Tartan garments | TREWS |
| The Citroën 2CV and Renault 4 both had a dashboard-mounted ____ | gear lever |
| The sacred river of Coleridge’s Xanadu | ALPH |
| The theme song for this Bond film was Nobody Does It Better | The Spy Who Loved Me |
| The ____ Us is a video game set in a post-apocalyptic America | last of |
| This city is the successor to Citium, birthplace of Zeno the Stoic | LARNACA |
| To awaken a memory | ring a bell |
| To match or surpass, usually by imitation | EMULATE |
| Types of this device include piston and poppet | VALVE |
| Un homme d’____ is a French businessman | AFFAIRES |
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