The Times - Specialist October 15 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 079. October 15 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
'Tinopolis' in South Wales, home of the Scarlets rugby union team	LLANELLI
A feeling of horror or revulsion	CREEPS
A name for some shrikes	BUTCHERBIRD
A young Italian man	signorino
An Etonian oarsman, rather than a cricketer	Wet bob
Andrea Newmans novel ____ of Barbed Wire was adapted for a 1976 ITV drama series starring Frank Finlay	BOUQUET
Arkwright and Granville sitcom	Open All Hours
Armenian composer of the ballets Gayane and Spartacus	KHACHATURIAN
Bellini opera based on the English Civil War	I Puritani
Capital of France’s Eure department, whose name comes from the Gallic Eburovices tribe	evreux
Cocktails with vodka, coffee liqueur and cream or milk	White Russians
Crackling on a vinyl record	STATIC
Director of Rosemary’s Baby in 1968 and Chinatown in 1974	Roman Polanski
Distance calculator	RANGEFINDER
England’s World Cup-winning manager	Sir Alf Ramsey
Eponymous outlaw in a Walter Scott novel	Rob Roy
Formally install in office	INDUCT
Former Parisian palace designed for Catherine of Medici and burnt down in 1871	TUILERIES
Garden plants with bright red, orange or yellow flowers and edible leaves	NASTURTIUMS
German art song — usually for solo voice with piano	LIED
Home of Nigeria’s oldest university, and capital of the state of Oyo	IBADAN
Hypnotic, tranquillising drug taken for the relief of insomnia	nitrazepam
Impose beliefs upon	Force-feed
In botany, split into three parts	TRIFID
In showjumping, a fence made of rough branches	RUSTIC
In which Ventôse, Germinal and Thermidor appeared	Revolutionary calendar
Informally, parts of the human heart	COCKLES
John Timpson’s co-presenter on Today from 1975 to 1986	Brian Redhead

 

Clues	Answers
Latin phrase indicating that something is the direct consequence of an action	Ipso facto
Liliaceous plant, or its juice used in skin and hair preparations	aloe vera
London metropolitan borough which became part of Tower Hamlets in 1965	POPLAR
Magnus Magnusson's Mastermind catchphrase	I've started so I'll finish
Millwall’s football ground in Cold Blow Lane from 1910 to 1993	The Den
Mozart opera in which Pamina and Papageno appear	The Magic Flute
Music-hall entertainer Harry ____ wrote and sang Roamin' in the Gloamin'	LAUDER
Name first used for François Leclerc du Tremblay, Richelieu’s right-hand man	Eminence grise
Official South African governmental policy of racial segregation, renounced in 1992	APARTHEID
Old English epic in which the dragon Grendel is mortally wounded	BEOWULF
Pants and knickers	UNDIES
Public transport route from Stanmore to Stratford	Jubilee Line
River in Guyana, or a type of brown sugar	DEMERARA
Small portable organs	REGALS
Soviet president who introduced glasnost and perestroika	GORBACHEV
Spanish port on the Bay of Biscay, where a film festival has been held since 1953	San Sebastian
Spike of small flowers on trees and shrubs such as willow	CATKIN
Stricken with reverential fear	AWED
The capital of Croatia	ZAGREB
The Crewe ____ were featured in Gridiron UK, a film about American football	railroaders
The decisive 1942 second battle of ____ was the watershed of the Western Desert campaign	El Alamein
The dramatic ____ relate to action, time and place	UNITIES
The eviction of tenants from large Scottish estates in the early 19th century	CLEARANCES
The king is persuaded to marry Reignier's daughter ____, at the end of Henry VI Part 1	MARGARET
The principal presenter of Today from 1958 to 1970	Jack de Manio
The privatisation of the bus industry following the 1985 Transport Act	DEREGULATION
The ____ Times or 'Pink ’Un' was founded in 1888	FINANCIAL
Writer of contemptible verse	POETASTER