The Times - Specialist - May 20 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 110
Clues	Answers
'I awoke one morning and found myself famous' (Lord Byron, about the instantaneous success of ____)	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'Or have we eaten on the ____ / That takes the reason prisoner?' (Macbeth)	insane root
1993 comedy drama starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan	Sleepless In Seattle
A pharmacologically inactive drug	PLACEBO
A Sanskrit religious or philosophical text	UPANISHAD
Actress who played Nora Charles in The Thin Man	Myrna Loy
Aggressively carnivorous freshwater fish	PIRANHA
Arboreal lizard with spiny back	IGUANA
Artillery fire aimed at aircraft	ack-ack
Biblical figure depicted on film by Hedy Lamarr and Liz Hurley	DELILAH
Chef whose three UK restaurants currently have six Michelin stars between them	Heston Blumenthal
City where Sweden's oldest university is based	UPPSALA
Colloquial name for the throat	Red Lane
Common sense	NOUS
Cub Scout leader, from a Jungle Book character	AKELA
English rock band and the name of a 2010 arcade racing game	BLUR
First name of the actor who starred in The King and I and The Magnificent Seven	YUL
Flightless insect of the order Siphonaptera	FLEA
For the time being, briefly (Latin)	pro tem
Former heavy metal band fronted by bass guitarist Ian Kilmister	MOTORHEAD
Formerly, one sixteenth of a rupee	ANNA
Four inches	HAND
Francois ____ wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel	RABELAIS
Grammatical change to a word, often via a prefix or suffix	INFLECTION
Hollow lower part of a feather's shaft	CALAMUS
In architecture, a cross-rib used in vaulting	LIERNE
Informally, what happened yesterday at Windsor and Wembley	big match
Merchant sailing ship, such as a tea clipper	INDIAMAN
Nursie's real name in Blackadder II	BERNARD
Part of Australia's Northern Territory, an aboriginal reserve since 1931	Arnhem Land
Philosopher who influenced Richard Wagner's later operas	Arthur Schopenhauer
Plant of the ginger family used in making curry powder	TURMERIC
Priest who wrote the Summa Theologiae	Thomas Aquinas
Resistance to motion through a fluid	DRAG
Robert Burns was born in what is now a suburb of this Scottish town	AYR
Runner-up to Steffi Graf in the 1991 ladies' singles final at Wimbledon	Gabriela Sabatini
Site of the house built by Soames Forsyte in A Man of Property	Robin Hill
Six ____ can be seen in the pit in a performance of Wagner's Ring cycle	HARPISTS
Someone who may carry nuts and hexes	rock climber
Spherical winner of the 'Great sweet revival' poll held by Waitrose in 2009	aniseed ball
Sulphide of mercury, used to make the pigment vermilion	CINNABAR
That which a creditor may chase	DEBT
The 'a' of p.a. as applied to a salary	ANNUM
The man who took responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion	Joseph of Arimathea
The radiating gills of certain mushrooms	LAMELLAE
The wife of Rupert Murdoch	Jerry Hall
The ____ Mountains run from Newfoundland to Alabama	appalachian
The ____'s London base is the Barbican Theatre	Royal Shakespeare Company
Title of plays by Aeschylus and Percy Bysshe Shelley	Prometheus Unbound
To approach and speak to, often menacingly	ACCOST
Trigonometrical function whose abbreviation is a type of lettuce	COSINE
Type of bow tie or sunglasses	clip-on
US equivalent of BSI or DIN	ANSI
Waterway which links the Pacific and Atlantic oceans	Panama Canal
Willie Garvin is the sidekick of this comic strip character	Modesty Blaise
With strength and durability	SOLIDLY
____ substances turn litmus paper red	ACIDIC
____ won the TS Eliot prize for poetry for her collection Stag's Leap	Sharon Olds