The Times - Specialist - April 8 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 104
Clues	Answers
“Mad Dan” ____, a character in The Goon Show	ECCLES
'Religion's in the heart, not the ____' (Douglas Jerrold)	KNEE
'They dined on mince and slices of quince, / Which they ate with a ____' (Edward Lear)	runcible spoon
1941 Disney animation whose protagonist’s only friend is a mouse called Timothy	DUMBO
1987 legal drama film starring Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley	SUSPECT
1997 historical drama starring Morgan Freeman	AMISTAD
A 100th anniversary	CENTENNIAL
A Manhattan made with Scotch instead of rye or bourbon	Rob Roy
A small tree with pale purple flowers	LILAC
A type of thick gruel	LOBLOLLY
Alternative name for the eleventh month of the French revolutionary calendar	fervidor
American Indian, the first to meet the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony	samoset
Australian state whose capital is Brisbane	QUEENSLAND
Author of The Glass Menagerie	Tennessee Williams
Automobile executive whose 1984 autobiography was a best-seller	Lee Iacocca
Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease	pneumococci
Capital of the East Flanders province of Belgium	GHENT
Column in a newspaper, by its chief writer	EDITORIAL
Compatriot team beaten by FC Porto in the 2011 Europa League final	BRAGA
Crime drama series whose central characters were Crockett and Tubbs	Miami Vice
Director of the 1971 film The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich
Enclosed saltwater area in which sea animals such as dolphins are kept and tamed	SEAQUARIUM
English cricketer who took his 400th Test wicket against New Zealand in March 2018	Stuart Broad
Fictional captain, also known as Prince Dakkar, created by Jules Verne	NEMO
First wife of Henry VIII	Catherine of Aragon
Former BBC newsreader and presenter of the first two series of Top Gear	Angela Rippon
Herb used in Scandinavian and eastern European cuisine	DILL
In computing, a single instance of a repeated instruction	ITERATION
In Greek mythology, the last king of Troy	PRIAM
Influential blues guitarist, a long-standing collaborator of Beth Hart	Joe Bonamassa
Jockey who won the 2016 Grand National on Rule The World	David Mullins
Marsh bird noted for its booming call	BITTERN
Members of one branch of Islam	SHIITES
Minister for the Olympics 2005-2010	Tessa Jowell
Name of French origin for a horse-drawn hackney carriage	FIACRE
Nebraska’s largest city	OMAHA
Organisation headed by Audrey Azoulay and headquartered in Place de Fontenoy, Paris	UNESCO
Pharisee who helped prepare Christ’s body for burial after the crucifixion	NICODEMUS
Practical joker of German folklore, depicted in a Richard Strauss tone poem	Till Eulenspiegel
Richard ____ wrote Watership Down	ADAMS
Samuel Johnson’s Prince of Abissinia	RASSELAS
Sculpture by Auguste Rodin	The Thinker
Siamese cat with dark brown fur on face, paws, and tail	SEALPOINT
Significant escape of blood from the circulatory system	HAEMORRHAGE
Site of an infamous 1960 massacre in South Africa	sharpeville
South American rodent related to the guinea pig	CAVY
South Korean car manufacturer, defunct since 1999	DAEWOO
Spanish city with a Burial of the Sardine festival on the Saturday after Easter	MURCIA
The garden where Jesus and his disciples slept the night before the crucifixion	GETHSEMANE
The Jewish Feast of Lots	PURIM
The plump, winged boy of renaissance and baroque art	PUTTO
The twin city of Saint Paul	MINNEAPOLIS
There are approximately 2025 yards in a ____ mile	NAUTICAL
Thin strip of wood often used in plastering	LATH
To believe, or to assume provisionally	SUPPOSE
Type of sun hat; an African antelope	TOPI
Workplace for some political journalists	press gallery
____ I ruled Macedon from 413 to 399 BC	ARCHELAUS
____ Upon Everything was a book with advice on topics such as 'Invalid soup', 'To kill flies', and 'Charades'	Enquire Within
____... with Jools Holland, a BBC live music show	LATER