January 20 2019 The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 145 Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 145

Clues	Answers
1936 poem and documentary film about a postal train	Night Mail
1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat about the crew of HMS Compass Rose during the Second World War	The Cruel Sea
1960s French cinematic movement with a simple underrated style, and sometimes dogmatically political content	Nouvelle Vague
A Braeburn or Tydeman’s Late Orange is such a fruit	Winter apple
A business deal, or a set of related changes to a database	TRANSACTION
A female foreigner, in French	etrangere
A nickname for Melbourne or Sydney, first used by Australian aborigines	The Big Smoke
A preface or preliminary matter	Avant-propos
A proposed slogan, “Browns, Seasons, Thickens In One” was supposedly the source of this product’s name	BISTO
A quack	CHARLATAN
Argol, the acidic deposit on the inside of a bottle of port	CRUST
Asian river on the banks of which the ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa flourished between 2600BC and 1900BC	INDUS
Athenian courtesan who induced Alexander the Great to set fire to the palace of the Persian kings at Persepolis	THAIS
Avoider of military service, such as Donald Trump	Draft dodger
Breed of large white beef cattle	CHAROLAIS
Cambridge Footlights star who later played Patsy’s mother in Absolutely Fabulous	Eleanor Bron
Canadian prime minister after whom Montreal’s international airport is named	Pierre Trudeau
Cavalry soldier fighting with a curved single-edged sword	SABREUR
Charles ____ directed the 1953 film version of 34 Down	frend
Claudio ____, Chilean pianist famed for his absorbing master classes	ARRAU
Composer born in Dresden (a district of Stoke-on-Trent)	Havergal Brian
Court with a reputation for harshness, abolished in 1641	Star Chamber
David ____ was the tenth Doctor to travel in the Tardis on BBC television	TENNANT
Display stands with shelves for small objects or ornaments	ETAGERES
Edward ____ wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	ALBEE
Form of pasta traditionally served with ragu bolognese	TAGLIATELLE
Frederick ____ & Co, publisher of the Observer’s series of books and Beatrix Potter’s tales	WARNE
From the Latin for “shoe”, another name for slipperwort	CALCEOLARIA
Germany’s northern state which borders Denmark	Schleswig-Holstein

Clues	Answers
Godfrey ____, “arguably the best wicket keeper the game has ever seen” according to Wisden	EVANS
Hic ____, “here lies” on a tombstone inscription	JACET
His latest (2018) novel is Middle England	Jonathan Coe
In an orchestra, these instruments are sometime seen both left and right of the conductor	VIOLINS
Inhabitants of an ancient kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, maybe living in Assur or Nineveh	ASSYRIANS
It helps to maintain one’s dignity or prestige	face-saver
Lives in basic and unaccustomed circumstances	Roughs it
Meaning of the “clearway” road sign	No Stopping
Numbers such as 512, 2197 and 8000	CUBES
One of Tom Stoppard’s “dead” tragicomic characters	ROSENCRANTZ
One quarter	Twenty-five percent
Pen y Fan is the highest mountain in this Welsh national park	Brecon Beacons
Peninsula forming the western part of County Galway	CONNEMARA
Pictorial logic puzzles also called griddlers	nonograms
Quick recovery wish	Get well soon
Seat of Florida State University since 1857	TALLAHASSEE
Soft fresh cheese with the consistency of thick yoghurt	Fromage frais
Suburb of Brussels where Erasmus lived, or Belgium’s most successful football team in European competitions	anderlecht
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization	Star Wars
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band’s Death Cab for ____ was an Elvis Presley parody	CUTIE
The capital of France’s Aveyron department	rodez
The chief Norse gods dwelling in Asgard	AESIR
The smallest European rodent, for which old tennis balls with a drilled hole make good nests	Harvest mouse
The ____, 1 Across’s portrait of the 1970s	Rotters' Club
Thomas ____, whose Summer’s Lost Will and Testament contains the song Spring, the Sweet Spring	NASHE
What a player leading 6-5 and 40-30 has in tennis	Set point
Winner of the 1957 Nobel prize for literature	Albert Camus
Writes down music	NOTATES
____ Arantes do Nascimento is better known as Pelé	EDSON