The Times - Specialist - July 29 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 120 July 29 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 120
Clues	Answers
“Her chariot is an empty hazelnut / Made by the joiner ____” (Mercutio, in Romeo and Juliet)	SQUIRREL
“Let’s ____” sang Olivia Newton-John in a 1981 song censored or banned by some radio stations	get physical
1993 film in which Rita Wilson, wife of Tom Hanks, played his sister Suzy	Sleepless In Seattle
2001 single by Linkin Park, their most frequently played live song	in the end
A code of 15 Across in southern Italy	OMERTA
A form of clay pigeon shooting	SKEET
Animal which, theoretically, may be both alive and dead	Schrodinger's cat
Author who wrote “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded”	Terry Pratchett
Author whose 1963 debut novel was A Summer Bird-Cage	Margaret Drabble
Balding	thin on top
Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve	neuromata
Capital of Saudi Arabia	RIYADH
Caribbean island whose capital is Oranjestad	ARUBA
Charles ____, author of The Cloister and the Hearth	READE
Charms or amulets	TALISMANS
City in which one may walk along the Promenade de la Croisette	CANNES
Control of a situation	whip hand
County Durham town where John Walker invented the friction match in 1827	Stockton-on-Tees
D:Ream single used by the Labour Party in their 1997 General Election campaign	Things Can Only Get Better
During the Cold War, we spoke of an eastern on but not a western one	BLOC
Endowed with initiative and resourcefulness	gumptious
Enjoyment derived from inflicting pain on others	SADISM
Extending platform of a warship on which a cannon is mounted	sponson
Form of torture in which the victim is dropped from a height with hands bound behind the back	STRAPPADO
Headgear symbolising manumission, also a small “magic” mushroom	liberty cap
In bridge this is worth at least 500 points above the line	SLAM
In Greek myth, the primordial deity followed by Gaia	CHAOS
In various sports, a pass allowing a teammate to score a goal	ASSIST
Informally, blunt language, often using taboo words	Anglo-Saxon
Island whose capital is Basseterre	St Kitts
Large relative of the weasel, noted for its pungent scent	POLECAT
Low altitude missile, its name derived from the French for “flying fish”	EXOCET
MP who made the controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech in 1968	Enoch Powell
Musician and comedian who starred as Luther Hobdyke in later series of Last of the Summer Wine	Russ Abbot
Name for the British Isles in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four	Airstrip One
National personification usually depicted with top hat and goatee beard	Uncle Sam
Nephrite is one of the two minerals with this name, used in jewellery and ornaments	JADE
Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit	SYMBIOTIC
One twentieth of a US dollar	NICKEL
Part of the University of Cambridge, with two areas connected by the Mathematical Bridge	Queen's College
Resonant transformer producing alternating current with high voltage and frequency	Tesla coil
Scottish council area containing Forfar and Carnoustie	ANGUS
Scottish singer whose debut solo album was Diva, released in 1992	Annie Lennox
Short nickname of the fictitious adventurer Henry Walton Jones Jr	INDY
Sitcom whose central characters live in Nelson Mandela House, Peckham	Only Fools and Horses
Tendency of a body to remain still or maintain motion without external force	INERTIA
The “King of Skiffle” of the 1960s	Lonnie Donegan
The actor who played Li Mu Bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Yun-Fat Chow
The fourth movement of Schubert’s best-known piano quintet is a set of variations on this lied	Die Forelle
The largest moon of Uranus	TITANIA
The main antagonist group in the Star Wars franchise	SITH
The musical content of John Cage’s composition 4’33”	SILENCE
The only standard constellation named after a musical instrument	LYRA
The Parliamentarian Sir Hugh ____ later became a Royalist leader during the English Civil War	cholmeley
The pitcher and torch logo on a ____ bible symbolises implements used by the biblical judge of the same name to scare the Midianite army	GIDEON
Thin white edible mushroom native to Japan	ENOKI
Using an approach based on results rather than theory	PRAGMATIC
Usually abbreviated, a 1974 single by Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, with vocals by The Three Degrees	The Sound of Philadelphia