The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times August 13 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 070 August 13 2017  

Clues	Answers
“Set meals”, as we might call them	TV dinners
A Jamaican street gang in the USA	POSSE
A musician performing without preparation	SIGHTREADER
A version of baccarat in which the role of banker moves between players	Chemin de fer
Albert and Harold of Oil Drum Lane	Steptoe and Son
An Iranian Shi’ite religious leader	AYATOLLAH
Beyond Our Ken star who later played ARP Warden Hodges in Dad’s Army	Bill Pertwee
Beyond Our Ken star who played Ricky Livid	Hugh Paddick
Bird with a conspicuous chestnut-coloured tail	REDSTART
Bramblings, linnets and siskins, eg	FINCHES
Carry On star who portrayed Arthur Fallowfield in Beyond Our Ken	Kenneth Williams
Christian rite acknowledging one’s faith and full participation in the church	CONFIRMATION
Craftsman from the Guarneri, Amati or Stradivari families	Violin-maker
Department of south-western France with a sizeable British community	DORDOGNE
Departures from Cape Canaveral	BLASTOFFS
En ____ is a way of capturing a pawn in chess	PASSANT
Eponymous straight man of Beyond Our Ken	Kenneth Horne
First line of romantic verse ending “And so are you”	Roses are Red
French department in the north of the Pays de la Loire region	sarthe
From an item of clothing, an old name for a working-class woman	SHAWLIE
Frozen encrustation on a window	Ice fern
Geddington in Northamptonshire has the best preserved ____, a memorial to Edward I’s first wife	Eleanor Cross
Gem State resident	IDAHOAN
Genre of French painting of courtly figures in a rural setting associated with Watteau	Fete galante
Grade II-listed building in Birmingham’s Bull Ring, completed in 1965	ROTUNDA
Gyorgy ____, Hungarian-born composer whose music was used in 2001: A Space Odyssey	LIGETI
Informally, a member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing	SHAKER
Italian stew of knuckle of veal cooked in tomato sauce	Osso bucco

 

Clues	Answers
James Joyce’s prose work about Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker	Finnegans Wake
Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s nickname	SATCHMO
Large container for shopping	Tote bag
Living beyond the continental shelf in depths over 200 metres	OCEANIC
Lower Saxony port from which the first regular shipping service between continental Europe and the USA began in 1847	bremerhaven
Machines which merge sets of decks of punched cards	COLLATORS
Mexican hat with a wide brim	SOMBRERO
Musical director of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra from 1946 to 1970	George Szell
Norbert ____ of Manchester United was in England’s 1966 World Cup team	STILES
Oxfordshire town where Blenheim Palace is situated	WOODSTOCK
Political editor for BBC News since June 2015	Laura Kuenssberg
Portrayer of Sam Malone in Cheers	Ted Danson
Queen consort of Richard II	Anne of Bohemia
Reverend Ndabaningi ____ founded Zanu in 1963	SITHOLE
She portrayed Fanny Haddock in Beyond Our Ken	Betty Marsden
Stiffened, as corsets and bras may be	BONED
Strong impulse to steal with no apparent motivation	KLEPTOMANIA
Tenor aria from Turandot, used as the theme song for the BBC’s 1990 World Cup coverage	Nessun Dorma
The English, according to Napoleon	shopkeepers
These may be stone, iron or stony-iron	Motmots
Thick dairy product with a high fat content	Double cream
This feudal knightly vassal of a baron also had his own vassals	vavasour
Those who play an ancient string instrument with a body like a sliced pear	lutenists
Walden; or, Life in the Woods was the original title of Henry David ____’s best-known book	THOREAU
Well-reasoned estimate based on available information	Educated guess
____ Gas is liquefied butane in a portable cylinder	CALOR
____ Loos wrote Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1925	ANITA
____ played Ralph Ernest Gorse in The Charmer	Nigel Havers