The Times - Specialist - December 10 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 087 December 10 2017 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the ____'	WIT
'Merciful' — based on a Latin word meaning to soothe	LENIENT
'We’ll go to ____, / Where true love conquers' (Manhattan song lyrics)	YONKERS
1896 collection of sixty-three poems, most of which have been set to music	A Shropshire Lad
1957 British film noir starring Stanley Baker and Herbert Lom	Hell Drivers
A bowler may approach from the Radcliffe Road End of this cricket ground	Trent Bridge
A Tibetan spiritual leader	Dalai Lama
According to New Scientist in July this year, this bone is present in the legs of frogs	PATELLA
Actor who starred as police sergeant TJ Hooker	William Shatner
Al Hillah in Iraq is built alongside this ancient city	BABYLON
An E flat or B flat bass in a brass band	TUBA
Archaic name for single-reed woodwind instruments	clarionets
Author of the comic novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Anita Loos
Bad language is said to turn the ____	air blue
Belgian driver who had four World Rally Championship wins in 2017	Thierry Neuville
Bos grunniens is the domesticated form of this wild ox	YAK
British actress who presented the first four Eurovision Song Contests hosted in the UK	Katie Boyle
Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice	MOLOCH
Co-presenter, since 2004, of Strictly Come Dancing	Tess Daly
From ____, hatred and malice […], Good Lord deliver us (Litany, 1662 Book of Common Prayer)	ENVY
German word for a year of apprenticeship	lehrjahr
Guardians of golden apples in Greek mythology	HESPERIDES
In classical Greek architecture, a continuous pedestal supporting a series of columns	stylobate
Informally, a pound sterling	SOV
Insurance company which traded as Norwich Union until 2009	aviva
Jack ____ wrote TV scripts for The Lovers, Bar Mitzvah Boy, and The Knowledge	ROSENTHAL
Leaked set of over thirteen million investment documents partly made public on November 5, 2017	The Paradise Papers
Likely to be able to answer clues in this puzzle	well-read
Lou Reed’s 1972 double A-side single featured Walk on the Wild Side and ____	Perfect Day
Mad Max: ____ was a 2015 reboot of the film franchise	Fury Road
Main protagonist of The Hunger Games	Katniss Everdeen
Maori name for a humanoid sculpture	TIKI
Mythological ship which sailed from Iolcos to Colchis	ARGO
Nickname of Lord of the Rings character Fredegar Bolger	FATTY
Nikolai ____ wrote Taras Bulba	GOGOL
Northamptonshire village, home to the Force India team	SILVERSTONE
Not the sort of person to do clerical work!	LAYMAN
Oil reservoir at the bottom of a crankcase	SUMP
Olympic 10,000m gold medallist in 1996 and 2000	Haile Gebrselassie
Pertaining to the brain	CEREBRAL
Pulp-filled tooth cavities	root canals
Russian name for the capital of Moldova	kishinev
Series of three films based on the sitcom Police Squad!	The Naked Gun
Short stanza which finishes some forms of verse	ENVOI
Sir Charles ____ did not invent the bridge named after him	WHEATSTONE
Sixteen nails	YARD
Snakes, as a sub-order of reptiles	OPHIDIA
Some of Guy de ____’s short stories were set during the Franco-Prussian war	MAUPASSANT
Someone from Tyneside or, in Australia and New Zealand, a Scotsman	GEORDIE
Supporters close to goalies	UPRIGHTS
Symbol which is also called “pound sign” in the US	HASHTAG
Telephone system requiring no operator	subscriber trunk dialling
The chapter before Wool and Water in Through the Looking Glass	Tweedledum and Tweedledee
The main public space of this Italian city is the Piazza del Campo	SIENA
The poems set to music in William Walton’s Facade were from a collection of the same name by Edith ____	SITWELL
The ____ Boy and The Mad Mother were two of Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads collection	IDIOT
This author’s surname is one letter short of an example of his work	POE
To surround on all sides	ENCLOSE
Traditional Hindu system of medicine	AYURVEDA
Western	OCCIDENTAL