The Times - Specialist - February 18 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 097
Clues	Answers
'____ is not the art of scholars, but illiterates' (Werner Herzog)	FILM
1976 musical gangster comedy movie with a cast of children	Bugsy Malone
2009 film starring Colin Firth, based on a Christopher Isherwood novel about a gay academic	A Single Man
A constellation named after an ancient Greek musical instrument	LYRA
A deadly sin	ENVY
A kitchen mill or grater, both with three choices for the rotating component	mouli
A long-legged wading bird	STILT
A poem with six verses, all ending with the first or last line of the first verse	VILLANELLE
A ____ is the last entire pet called Eric in Monty Python’s Fish Licence sketch	fruit bat
Adjustable diaphragm used in most modern cameras	IRIS
Alfredo ____ scored for Real Madrid in five European Cup victories	Di Stefano
Ancient Roman military unit with about 500 soldiers	COHORT
As at least some people think	SUPPOSEDLY
As sold in the UK, this Italian sausage comes from Bologna	MORTADELLA
As something to be on, an opposite to 'wagon'	Razzle
At sea, 'stop!'	AVAST
Austrian abbot whose work started modern genetics	Gregor Mendel
Avoid going to bed	sit up
Backward movement of a fired gun	RECOIL
Behaviour matching that of most other people	CONFORMITY
Britain’s highest chalk sea cliff	Beachy Head
Character who does not eat Sophie in a Roald Dahl book	The BFG
Czech composer of The Bartered Bride	SMETANA
Emily Brontë character played in films by Laurence Olivier, Timothy Dalton and Ralph Fiennes	HEATHCLIFF
English syllable, maybe repeated, equivalent to 'grunz' in German, 'boo' in Japanese, and 'nöff' in Swedish	OINK
Former centre of Catharism in France’s Tarn department	ALBI
Former name for the western part of New Guinea, annexed by Indonesia in 1962	Irian Jaya
French mathematician, whose topological Conjecture was proved in 2003	Henri Poincare
Group of museums informally called 'America’s attic'	Smithsonian Institution
Gut feelings may also be located ____	in one's bones
In Australia, genuine or true	DINKUM
In marketing, ____ time is the period during which a customer waits in a queue	DWELL
Informally, the first US president to win the Nobel peace prize	Teddy Roosevelt
International ecological non-governmental organisation, whose logo is a panda	World Wide Fund for Nature
Lowest possible rating in many online reviews	one-star
Lytton ____ wrote Eminent Victorians, which revolutionised biographical writing	STRACHEY
Of a business, no longer operating	closed down
Old Testament book of poems grieving for the destruction of Jerusalem by a Babylonian army	Lamentations of Jeremiah
One of the 'ines herbes' in French cuisine	TARRAGON
One recipe for ____ uses mayonnaise, chopped pickles, ketchup, lemon juice and minced garlic	Thousand Island dressing
Permission to be absent from a school or college	EXEAT
River in Devon, with a small population of beavers	OTTER
Someone who makes tight-fitting undergarments	CORSETIERE
Sydney is its largest city	OCEANIA
The 'apple of love' in some European languages	TOMATO
The 1942-3 battle of ____ is possibly the bloodiest in history	STALINGRAD
The first talkie feature film, starring Al Jolson	The Jazz Singer
The last major British TV drama series made in black and white, first shown in 1967	The Forsyte Saga
The police of this port 'dismisseth us' in a tongue-twister	LEITH
The second electronic digital stored-program computer, first used at the University of Cambridge in 1949	edsac
The ____ Channel is between Mexico and Cuba	YUCATAN
Thomas Love Peacock novel, similar to his previous Headlong Hall	Crotchet Castle
Type of missile used to destroy other missiles	surface-to-air
Urban railway system in Germany	S-bahn
Widespread hatred, often incurred as a result of one’s actions	ODIUM
Winston Churchill’s birthplace	Blenheim Palace
Woven fabric with a pattern of diagonal ridges	TWILL
____ and the Range of Light is a book of Ansel Adams photos	YOSEMITE