The Times - Specialist - December 22 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 193
Clues	Answers
1937 French film, remade as Algiers in the US, which reputedly inspired The Third Man	Pepe Le Moko
A French boarding school	PENSIONNAT
A native of, say, Maine, Vermont, or Connecticut	New Englander
A sailor qualified to captain a merchant vessel	master mariner
Capital of Burma	RANGOON
Captain of Europe’s 2006 winning Ryder Cup team	Ian Woosnam
Children’s TV show whose original intended name was 123 Avenue B	sesame street
Coach of Scotland’s football team between caretaker managers Billy Stark and Malky Mackay	Gordon Strachan
Comestible sometimes called forcemeat	STUFFING
Dresden and Hamburg both stand on this river	ELBE
Event which, in the US, is called a bachelorette party	hen night
Fruit tree native to China, where recent research suggests cultivation before 5000BC	PEACH
Goes potholing as a pastime	SPELUNKS
Grass whose shiny grains are used as beads	Job's tears
Hairstylist who repopularised the bob cut in the 1960s	Vidal Sassoon
Half of the songs on this Blondie album were released as singles	Parallel Lines
Hideo Kojima video game with an apocalyptic setting, launched in November 2019	Death Stranding
Imitation or representation of the real world in art	MIMESIS
Informally, a kind of radio popular about 50 years ago	TRANNIE
Italian princely house of which Britain’s Hanoverian monarchs were descendants	ESTE
Jaguar sports car manufactured 1961-1975	E-Type
Lifestyle magazine founded in Paris in 1945, and launched in Britain and the US in 1985	ELLE
Literary island partner of Blefuscu	LILLIPUT
London church sometimes called “Britain’s Valhalla”	Westminster Abbey
Maori greeting, used as a brand name for fruit juice sold in British cinemas in the 1970s	kia ora
Metallic element whose name comes from the Latin for a Scandinavian capital	HOLMIUM
Nancy is the capital of this French department	Meurthe-et-Moselle
National park with Britain’s only herd of reindeer	CAIRNGORMS
Newspaper with 'mots croisés du jour' on its website	le monde
Possibly ironic words of approval or encouragement	way to go
Singer who played Nellie Melba in Downton Abbey	Kiri Te Kanawa
Spanish wine punch __ its name means 'bleeding'	SANGRIA
Stage surname of Edward McGinnis, comedy partner of straight man Cyril Mead	LARGE
The 'space traveller' in the name of an island in Baffin Bay	METEORITE
The chorus of a song	REFRAIN
The first complete month of British Summer Time	APRIL
The killer whale	ORCA
The largest island in the Bay of Naples	ISCHIA
The optician’s machine that makes you blink, used to measure fluid pressure in your eye	TONOMETER
The ____, a 1951 war novel by Nicholas Monsarrat	cruel sea
Theory that moral statements reflect feelings and not objective truth	emotivism
Variety of quartz once believed to prevent inebriation	AMETHYST
Words shared by catchphrases of Sybil and Manuel in Fawlty Towers	I know
____ in the wild in Britain may be smooth, palmate or great crested	NEWTS
____ played Bond’s adversary Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006), and Cliff in 18D	Mads Mikkelsen
____ played Daryl Dixon in the TV series The Walking Dead, and Sam in 18D	Norman Reedus
____ played the Bionic Woman in the 1970s TV series, and Amelie in 18D	Lindsay Wagner
____’s albums include Innervisions and Talking Book	Stevie Wonder