The Times - Specialist - October 8 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 078 October 8 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
“At the present moment, the whole ____’s lit up. When I say ‘lit up’ I mean lit up by fairy lamps” (Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Woodrooffe, in a notorious radio broadcast)	FLEET
“With maximum effort”, referring to old technology	full steam ahead
'And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers …' (The Tempest)	FABRIC
100 cents in South Africa	RAND
1978 John Irving novel, later a film starring Robin Williams	The World According To Garp
2007 war drama starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, adapted from an Ian McEwan novel	ATONEMENT
A decorative frill around the neck, also a variety of sandpiper	RUFF
A former insurance clerk who won 1984 Olympic skating gold with a former policeman	Jayne Torvill
A Roman greeting or a soothing ointment	SALVE
Actress who gained fame as a medium in Blithe Spirit	Margaret Rutherford
Actress who played Nefer in The Egyptian	Bella Darvi
An abbreviated word form such as photo or telly	APOCOPE
Anglicised name for Mongolia’s capital	Ulan Bator
Another name for an artist or illustrator	iconographer
Area of central Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea	TURKESTAN
BBC comedy show famous for its “going out for an English” sketch	Goodness Gracious Me
Capital of Australia's Victoria state	MELBOURNE
Clergyman ranked below priest	DEACON
Company for whose frozen peas advert Patsy Kensit made a popping sound	Birds Eye
Conic section with two focal points	ELLIPSE
Connection used to attach a hose to a water main	HYDRANT
Cumbrian river which enters the Irish Sea at Workington	DERWENT
Devotional name for Communion bread and wine	blessed sacrament
European explorer who discovered New Zealand	Abel Tasman
Father McKenzie is also named in this Beatles song	Eleanor Rigby
Gourd fruit with a striped skin	Ogen melon
Henchman of Auric Goldfinger	ODDJOB
In America, any fizzy soft drink	SODA
Largest living lizard species	Komodo dragon

 

Clues	Answers
Main antagonist of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy	steerpike
Of a payment, made with no acceptance of liability	ex gratia
Official language of Cambodia	KHMER
Owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire	Heston Blumenthal
Pauley Perrette plays gothic forensic scientist ____ Sciuto in NCIS	ABBY
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s 1960s TV show	Not Only But Also
Phylum of segmented worms	ANNELIDA
Popular music pianist born Trevor Stanford	Russ Conway
Punk band featuring guitarist (formerly bassist) Captain Sensible	The Damned
Release eggs	OVULATE
River which forms part of the border between Germany and Poland	ODER
Silky cloth with raised design	BROCADE
Simon and Garfunkel song which starts with boarding a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh	AMERICA
Site of a notorious massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho natives in 1864	Sand Creek
Small marsupial made popular in a game, originally for the Sony PlayStation	BANDICOOT
State capital of Maine	AUGUSTA
Strong tissue connecting bones	LIGAMENT
Terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, some of which slowed the progress of Allied forces in Operation Overlord	BOCAGE
The opposite of zenith	NADIR
The ____ is based on memoirs of governess Anna Leonowens	King and I
This instrument of Austria and Switzerland inspired a theme in the finale of Brahms’s first symphony	ALPENHORN
To sing while rapidly switching from natural to falsetto	YODEL
To stop a sailing vessel’s progress	heave to
Truro, Chatham, and Barnstable are on this peninsula	Cape Cod
Urchin	RAGAMUFFIN
US golfer who hit the honorary starting tee shot of the US Masters from 1984 to 2002	Sam Snead
Variety of winter-ripening pear	Nelis
Water-borne sheet detached from an ice field	FLOE
Wordsworth poem popularly known as Daffodils	I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud