The Times - Specialist - May 27 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 111 May 27 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 111
Clues	Answers
'The curfew tolls ____' (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)	The knell of parting day
1988 film starring Winona Ryder about four girls with the same first name	HEATHERS
A cluster of stalked flowers emanating from the stem	RACEME
A vein in a leaf, or in an insect's wing	NERVURE
Airport whose motto is 'Making every journey better'	HEATHROW
Among themselves (Latin)	inter se
An archive file format for data compression	RAR
An ornamental typographical character	DINGBAT
Assumed name of 19th-century US civil rights activist Isabella Baumfree	Sojourner Truth
Author of An Inconvenient Truth	Al Gore
Author of Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
Author of The Tin Drum	Gunter Grass
Belief contrary to that of one's religion	HERESY
Berkshire town; virginity	MAIDENHEAD
Bristle-like projection on a grain sheath	AWN
Celebrity; the name of several Royal Navy battleships	RENOWN
Cellmate of Lennie Godber	Norman Stanley Fletcher
Cocktail whose primary alcohol is the same as for a Tom Collins	Singapore sling
Collectively, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva	TRIMURTI
Comedian who was the first female to host a late night network TV talk show in the US	Joan Rivers
Comedic Greek writer, author of Dyskolos (The Grouch)	MENANDER
Dabbling duck of the Anas genus	TEAL
Detective in a series of eleven novels by Jo Nesbo	Harry Hole
Drooping of the upper eyelid	PTOSIS
Either of two side posts on which a lintel rests	JAMB
Female first name ultimately derived from a word meaning 'pearl'	MARGARET
Footballer who earned 125 England caps	Peter Shilton
Frederick George ____ was a key figure in the development of the teleprinter	CREED
Genus of curved bacteria, including the one causing cholera	VIBRIO
German footballer who joined Chicago Fire from Manchester United in 2017	Bastian Schweinsteiger
I very much agree	too right
In a line of battle, a projection into enemy territory	SALIENT
In Australia, a large pigeon and an evergreen vine	wonga-wonga
Indian state, formerly Portuguese territory for 450 years	GOA
Informally, everything related to the subject just mentioned	and that
Informally, the obverse side of a coin	HEADS
Item of clothing and, unhyphenated, a 1976 album by Loudon Wainwright III	T-shirt
Liverpool's 'Britannia Adelphi' was the subject of this 1997 fly-on-the-wall BBC documentary	HOTEL
Loss of memory	AMNESIA
Native American tribe whose language is called Heenetiit	ARAPAHO
Novelist John ____ sometimes wrote as Lucas Parkes	WYNDHAM
One name for a singer such as Michael Chance or Andreas Scholl	contratenor
Originally in the US, open two-seater cars	ROADSTERS
Principal bass appointed by Sadler’s Wells Opera Company in 1969 and the Royal Opera House in 1972	Robert Lloyd
Semicircular recess, often at the east end of a church	APSE
Stand-up comedian, a regular panellist on The Apprentice: You're Fired!	Romesh Ranganathan
The first children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett	Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Lord's Prayer or a large rosary bead indicating that it should be recited	PATERNOSTER
The mother of Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall	Princess Anne
The number of people present at an event	ATTENDANCE
The supreme Teutonic deity	WOTAN
The ____ empire was dominant in Mexico until the 12th century	TOLTEC
The ____, a novel by Wilkie Collins	MOONSTONE
Two shillings and sixpence	half crown
Type of bird, or a talk	CHAT
UK name for a TV show known elsewhere as The Tigers of Money and Shark Tank	Dragons' Den
Union which became part of RMT in 1990	NUR
US vice president who resigned after pleading no contest to a tax evasion charge and was replaced by Gerald Ford	Spiro Agnew