The Times - Specialist - June 3 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 112 June 3 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 112
Clues	Answers
'One a penny, two a penny' pastry in a nursery rhyme	Hot cross bun
A nickname of the state of Virginia	Old Dominion
A possible home for a billionaire	Tax haven
A possibly easier alternative to the original version of a musical passage	OSSIA
A triangle with angles of 60 degrees is ____	EQUILATERAL
About six miles northwest of Ullapool, these include Tanera Mor and Tanera Beg	Summer Isles
British order of knighthood founded by Queen Victoria in 1861, but obsolescent since 1948	Star of India
Broadway or the West End, eg	theatreland
Cask-conditioned beers	Real ales
Cats with a long body and a short brown coat with black or dark brown markings	ABYSSINIANS
Chancellor of the exchequer from 1983 to 1989	Nigel Lawson
City on the Rhine; its gothic cathedral was the tallest building in the world, 1880-4	COLOGNE
Dark and gloomy, like a river in Hades	STYGIAN
Football stadium or cricket ground in Manchester	Old Trafford
Former mining town in the Somerset coalfield	Midsomer Norton
German composer whose first symphony took him 21 years to write	BRAHMS
Glenda ____, actress and former Labour MP	JACKSON
Housing for a ship's compass	BINNACLE
In Il Trovatore, ____ is courted by the Count di Luna, but in love with Manrico	LEONORA
Italy’s most-visited art gallery, in Florence	UFFIZI
Items to be crossed out	DELENDA
Jean Simmons plays the title role in this 1954 historical movie, with Marlon Brando as Napoleon	DESIREE
Large bird of prey with yellow-tipped head feathers	golden eagle
Large black and tan rough-haired terrier	AIREDALE
Linen-weaver who adopts Eppie in a George Eliot novel	Silas Marner
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is a well-known example of this art form	objet trouve
Marshland plant used as a vegetable since antiquity	CELERY
Martin Freeman played ____ Baggins in The Hobbit films	BILBO
Max Beerbohm novel, featuring mass drowning in Oxford's Eights Week	Zuleika Dobson
Member of a religion regarding Haile Selassie as a manifestation of God	RASTAFARIAN
Move them to change aims to ensure the result you want	GOALPOSTS
Nickname for British commandos or US special forces	Green Berets
Outstanding, like famous entertainers	STELLAR
Peat moss	SPHAGNUM
People given to indulgence in pleasure and luxury	Lotus-eaters
Presteigne was the county town of this former Welsh county	RADNORSHIRE
Privates ____, 1977 farce (later filmed) about camp song and dance shows in late 1940s Singapore	On Parade
Rachel ____, Countdown's 'numbers girl'	RILEY
Rouen’s département	Seine-Maritime
Saxony's capital, on the Elbe	DRESDEN
States which are weaker than they seem	Paper tigers
Successor to Harold Macmillan as prime minister	Alec Douglas-Home
The city where John of Gaunt was born	GHENT
The first Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan	GOLDENEYE
The hod carrier who dies in James Joyce's final novel	FINNEGAN
The main London residence of the monarch, from 1698 to 1837	St James's Palace
The strait of ____, location of Charybdis in The Odyssey	MESSINA
The ____ stone provided the key to the deciphering of ancient Egyptian texts	ROSETTA
This fish is salted and smoked to produce a bloater	HERRING
This may be plain, keema, or peshwari	NAAN
Title bestowed on Meghan Markle on her wedding day	Duchess of Sussex
Type of cormorant which is not seen on inland water	SHAG
US TV western series whose title sequence included a burning map	BONANZA
Vanessa Redgrave starred in this 1968 film about a pioneer of modern dance	ISADORA
West African country or the river that forms its boundary with Mauritania	SENEGAL
Worldwide crime-fighting organisation	INTERPOL
____ Dawg, US cartoon series with catchphrases 'Just a cotton-picking moment' and 'Dagnabbit Muskie'	DEPUTY
____; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor	HMS Pinafore