The Times - Specialist - May 6 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 108 May 6 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 108
Clues	Answers
'The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us' (The Tragedy of King Lear)	PLAGUE
1963 film starring Shelley Winters, based on a Jean Genet play	The Balcony
A title of Riccardo in Verdi’s opera A Masked Ball	Earl of Warwick
A two-masted boat and an abbreviation of an army rank	BRIG
A young herring	SILD
Actress who gained fame as the sitcom character Barbara Good	Felicity Kendal
Adam ____, host of The Last Leg	HILLS
African country whose capital is Accra	GHANA
An amphibian of the Anura order	FROG
An orange roan is a type of ____	cocker spaniel
Applied retrospectively (of a law)	ex post facto
Arabian kingdom thought to be modern day Yemen	SHEBA
Archaic term for an unspecified day in the near future	odd-come-shortly
Area of dead tissue caused by loss of blood supply	INFARCT
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia	C S Lewis
Author of The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins
Belgian defender who joined Tottenham Hotspur in 2015	Toby Alderweireld
Bob Seger single, from the album Beautiful Loser, a less common spelling of its subject	KATMANDU
Canine friend of Blue Peter presenter John Noakes	SHEP
Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc	Steve Wozniak
Cocktail made with vodka and orange juice	SCREWDRIVER
Coined in 1975, term for a wealthy Chelsea resident	Sloane Ranger
Country of northwest Africa, its capital Nouakchott	MAURITANIA
Cricketers like Alan Knott, Tariq Iqbal, and Thomas Box	wicketkeepers
Enchantress of Greek myth who turned sailors into swine	CIRCE
Familiar alternative name for a German shepherd dog	ALSATIAN
Foot-operated lever	TREADLE
Former teletext service of ITV and Channel 4	ORACLE
Forward part of a ship	PROW
German equivalent of 'that is'	das heisst
Greek mathematician considered the father of geometry	EUCLID
Group of people serving a (usually) important person	RETINUE
Hapless fictional character played by Simon Jones, Chris Langham, and Martin Freeman	Arthur Dent
Harry Potter headmistress played by Maggie Smith	Minerva McGonagall
Home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club	St Andrews
Hordeolum, a swelling of the eyelid	STYE
Ice skating jump from one foot to the other, including a half turn	AXEL
In zoology, to use arms for locomotion	brachiate
Informally, a black eye	SHINER
Ireland’s Rockabill Island has the largest European colony of ____ terns	ROSEATE
Joseph Kesselring black comedy play about the Brewster family	Arsenic and Old Lace
Monterrey is the capital of this Mexican state	Nuevo Leon
One of two second-row players in a rugby union scrum	LOCK
Political style introduced under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown	new labour
Probiotic drink containing lactobacillus casei, launched in Japan in 1935	yakult
Republic bordered by Libya, Niger, and Sudan	CHAD
Severe inability to do simple arithmetic, caused by cerebral impairment	dyscalculia
Situation last declared in the UK by Edward Heath’s government	State Of Emergency
Soren ____ is considered a founder of existentialism	KIERKEGAARD
South African dish of curried mince and various other ingredients	bobotie
Spanish town just across the border from Gibraltar	La Linea
The class of tapeworms	cestoda
The original family name of Darth Vader	SKYWALKER
The world’s first female president of a republic	Isabel Peron
Type of neckwear named after Slavic mercenaries of the 17th century	CRAVAT
Unintended, accidental	INADVERTENT
When describing cloud cover, one eighth of the sky	okta
Wine of the Loire Valley, usually white	SANCERRE
Word for 'outstanding' thought to date from around 2003 but popularised by Perez Hilton in 2009	AMAZEBALLS
____ drinks are used to replace minerals and salt lost by sweating	ISOTONIC