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Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 537
The Times · GK Jumbo · Sunday, July 26, 2026
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Actions leading to scoring, listed in some team sport stats
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Actions leading to scoring, listed in some team sport stats
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Actions leading to scoring, listed in some team sport stats
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Abdulmecid II was the first elected Ottoman ____, in 1922
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In
Gargantua and Pantagruel
, Rabelais restated an idea attributed to Aristotle as “Natura abhorret ____”
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The G of MSG
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Throat inflammation, most common in childhood
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Hapless protagonist played by Simon Jones, Chris Langham, and Martin Freeman
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Sir Andrew ____ is a hapless fool in
Twelfth Night
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A worm with an unsegmented body, very often parasitic
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“Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, / A crowd flowed over ____” (
The Waste Land
, TS Eliot)
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Actress who played Yvette Carte-Blanche in
’Allo ’Allo!
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The ____ of Red Hot Chili Peppers is known as Flea
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Song featured in the
Red Dwarf
episode
Parallel Universe
, and later released as a 1993 single by “The Cat”
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Author of
The Catcher in the Rye
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Sedimentary rock made up of angular rock fragments
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In Daphne du Maurier's
Rebecca
, Jasper is a ____
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Letters in the first two columns of a Linotype keyboard, often typed as a signal to newspaper proofreaders about an error, but sometimes inadvertently published
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Qualified in some way to do, be, or receive something
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“Great fleas have little fleas […], / And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ____” (Augustus De Morgan)
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Ornamental glass often used to make paperweights
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Anti-hero of a Mozart opera, dragged to hell by demons
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A Muslim may use this five times a day
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Nuts eaten by the pigs used in the top grade of jamón ibérico
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Salad ingredient etymologically linked to Greek for parsley
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US TV show which introduced the phrase “names have been changed to protect the innocent”
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Mythical ship of Jason
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With Mark Radcliffe, co-host of BBC Radio 6 Music’s weekend breakfast show
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The Gravelly Hill Interchange, familiarly
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Engaged in ring training, as a boxer
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Battlement indentation used for firing arrows and other missiles
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2009 compilation album of songs by George Harrison
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Paraesthesia
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Tool used to pierce holes in leather and similar materials
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An economic improvement
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“Ohne ____ wäre das Leben ein Irrtum” (Nietzsche)
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Herb Alpert’s backing band
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Singer who featured on the Maroon 5 single
Moves like Jagger
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Sure to happen
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“I am a Jew, but I am ____ by the luminous figure of the Nazarene” (Albert Einstein)
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“Short con” game also known as find the lady
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Of a verb, not taking a direct object
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Joseph Cotten’s co-star in the 1944 film
Gaslight
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Pantomime character in a love triangle with Harlequin and Pierrot
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____ XIII was the last king of Spain before Juan Carlos
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There are ____ Islands in the Caribbean and French Polynesia
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Informally, an outdated storage medium
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The only country name in the Nato phonetic alphabet
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Engaged in an activity, especially a reprehensible one
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An atom which has lost or gained one or more electrons