| The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 277 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “It is especially important to encourage ____ thinking when the situation is critical” (Boris Yeltsin in his autobiography) | UNORTHODOX |
| “You always tell me / ____, ____, ____” (Eponymous song lyrics, probably best-known in a cover version by Doris Day) | PERHAPS |
| 2015 drama film named after a David Hockney painting | A Bigger Splash |
| A go-between or negotiator | INTERMEDIARY |
| A strongly scented herb with green-yellow flowers | RUE |
| A ____ digit is either 0 or 1 | BINARY |
| As an American term for everything, “the whole ____” is an alternative to “the whole nine yards” | ENCHILADA |
| August ____ patented his alternative to the Qwerty keyboard layout in 1936 | DVORAK |
| BBC sitcom starring Ricky Gervais as Andy Millman | EXTRAS |
| Codename of the D-Day landing beach closest to Caen | SWORD |
| Colloquial instruction to calm down | take a chill pill |
| Coming into being | NASCENT |
| Commune of Brittany noted for lines of standing stones | CARNAC |
| Dilbert character, an engineer with a distinctive triangular hairstyle | ALICE |
| Eric Partridge was a ____ who specialised in slang | LEXICOGRAPHER |
| Europe’s most sparsely populated nation | ICELAND |
| Florentine artist, seen as the founder of the main tradition of Western painting because he broke away from Byzantine stylization | GIOTTO |
| Formal base of the royal court in London | St James’s Palace |
| Former name of the region where the Klondike gold rush took place in the 1890s | Yukon Territory |
| French town which gave its name to a wall tapestry | ARRAS |
| Home ground of Cambridge United, the first Football League ground name to use its second word | Abbey Stadium |
| In 1839, Theodor ____ identified cells as the basic components of both animal and plant tissue | SCHWANN |
| Influential blues singer and guitarist who toured in the USSR in 1979 | B B King |
| Informal name for a tachometer | rev counter |
| Informally, an Academy Award | OSCAR |
| Insulated container which a Kiwi might take on a picnic | chilly bin |
| Irish mixed martial arts fighter and boxer, ranked as the world’s highest paid athlete in 2021 | Conor McGregor |
| Italian name of the art style which replaced Mannerism as Europe’s dominant one, around 1600 | barocco |
| Maori ceremonial war dances | hakas |
| Muslim exhortation meaning “God is most great” | Allahu Akbar |
| Nickname of the winner of the 1920, 1921 and 1930 Wimbledon men’s singles | Big Bill Tilden |
| Online campaign which “votes down” a product or service to damage its reputation | review bomb |
| Padre ____ was banned by the Vatican from celebrating mass in public in the 1920s, but made a saint by John Paul II in 2002 | PIO |
| Pharisee mentioned in St John’s gospel | NICODEMUS |
| Sockets which accommodate the roots of teeth | ALVEOLI |
| Suite of nine dance movements by Stravinsky, composed for a 1944 Broadway revue | Scenes de Ballet |
| The capital of Tibet | LHASA |
| The capital of Venezuela | CARACAS |
| The first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury | Thomas Cranmer |
| The ____ had a UK No 1 hit in 1975 with Can’t Give You Anything (But My Love) | stylistics |
| The ____ is a promotional nickname for Foster’s Lager | Amber Nectar |
| Time during which there is no active monarch | INTERREGNUM |
| Waterway linking Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland | River Neva |
| Winner of the 2021 Wimbledon men’s singles | Novak Djokovic |
| Winner of the 2021 Wimbledon women’s singles | Ashleigh Barty |
| ____ is significant when writing in languages like Chinese | Stroke order |
| ____ only lost eight states in the 1928 US presidential election, but only won six in 1932 | Herbert Hoover |
| ____, banned in warfare by the Geneva Protocol of 1925, is still used for riot control | tear gas |