The Times - Specialist - September 10 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 074 September 10 2017  

Clues	Answers
“The mere ____ pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great …” (Dr David Livingstone)	ANIMAL
“____, and quit my sight!” (Macbeth, to Banquo’s ghost)	AVAUNT
A female kangaroo	DOE
A length of four inches	HAND
A noted ornithologist gave his name to this fictional secret agent	james bond
A secret organisation, or any group thought to resemble it	MAFIA
Actress who played Laura Jesson in Brief Encounter	Celia Johnson
Actress whose most notable character was Yvette Carte-Blanche in ’Allo ’Allo	Vicki Michelle
Another name for a dowser	DIVINER
Another name for the weaver’s knot or hitch	sheet bend
Band whose song Live It Up featured in the film Crocodile Dundee	Mental as Anything
Bomber pilot and close friend of Yossarian in Catch-22	ORR
Breed of dog whose name is based on a word meaning “land”	TERRIER
Canadian province between Manitoba and Quebec	ONTARIO
Current venue of the US Open tennis tournament	Flushing Meadows
Disc formerly used instead of a coin in French payphones	Jeton
F1 team for whom Esteban Ocon and Pascal Wehrlein raced in 2016	MANOR
First words in verse 51 of Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	The moving finger writes
Folded veil used as a nun’s headdress	WIMPLE
Form of transport which must be booked in advance	MINICAB
Fragile porcelain from a town in Fermanagh	belleek
Gathered mass of carded wool ready for spinning	rolag
Greta Garbo starred as a Russian emissary in this 1939 film	NINOTCHKA
H Rider Haggard’s fictional game hunter	Allan Quatermain
Harry ____ played Mr Bumble in the film version of Oliver!	SECOMBE
Hornby model railway brand, introduced in 1938	dublo
Influential 20th-century US architect	Robert Venturi
Influential musician and producer, originally a member of Roxy Music	Brian Eno
Jordan’s only coastal city, near Eilat in Israel	AQABA
Location of public executions in London, 1783-1868	NEWGATE

 

Clues	Answers
Material on which another material is deposited	SUBSTRATE
Midfielder who joined Arsenal from Southampton in 2011	Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Mob Quad is in this part of Oxford University	Merton College
Most of this national park is in Wyoming	YELLOWSTONE
Musician, played by Suzi Quatro, in some episodes of Happy Days	Leather Tuscadero
Narrator and purported author of epic poems by James Macpherson	OSSIAN
Notable feature of Jupiter	Great Red Spot
Prince ____ Road is a street in London’s “Albertopolis” area	CONSORT
Proprietary name for a type of rechargeable battery	NICAD
Scattered or scanty	SPARSE
Sir ____ Fuchs led a land crossing of Antarctica in 1957-8	VIVIAN
Stage name of the singer born Robyn Fenty	RIHANNA
Strong wind which blows on the South African coast	Cape doctor
Sweet, nut-based filling in chocolate	PRALINE
Taxonomy grouping equivalent to a division in botany	PHYLUM
The City of London’s main shopping street since medieval times	CHEAPSIDE
The deep inner layer of the skin	DERMA
The first stage of the 2014 Tour de France ended in this spa town	HARROGATE
The influential philosophy text Critique of Pure Reason was written by Immanuel ____	KANT
The most popular variety of this vegetable is calabrese	BROCCOLI
The UK’s best-selling single of 1974	Tiger Feet
The ____ Mob drove the Bulletproof Bomb in Wacky Races	Ant Hill
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior was written by John von ____ and Oskar Morgenstern	NEUMANN
Tour de France winner in 2015, 2016 and 2017	Chris Froome
Trollope’s fictional English county, in the title of the final novel in a six-volume series	BARSET
Vertical feature of staircases	newel post
Vessel displaying the consecrated host in Catholic Masses	MONSTRANCE
Vladimir ____ wrote Lolita	NABOKOV
Wild asses, or historical stone-throwing devices	ONAGERS
Winner of the 2009 Grand National on Mon Mome, at 100-1	Liam Treadwell