The Times - Specialist - November 19 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 084 November 19 2017  

Clues	Answers
“What’s gone and what’s past help / Should be past ____” (The Winter’s Tale)	GRIEF
“____; the centre cannot hold” (WB Yeats)	Things fall apart
1857 volume of poems by Charles Baudelaire	Les Fleurs du Mal
19th-century mechanical musical instrument intended to sound like a complete orchestra	panharmonicon
A cricket pitch is ____ yards long	twenty-two
A gourd, or a tobacco pipe made from its shell	CALABASH
A nitrogenous basic compound found in plants, such as morphine or nicotine	ALKALOID
A place name	TOPONYM
A pub which, hyphenated, might be regarded as nutritionally healthy	LOCAL
Ancient Greek warship with three tiers of oars	TRIREME
Ancient Roman ceremony which followed the census; a period of five years	LUSTRUM
Around 1900, the cheapest ship accommodation	STEERAGE
Ballad set to the tune of Londonderry Air	Danny Boy
Bedfordshire house used as a location in Never Say Never Again and The World Is Not Enough	Luton Hoo
Chewy sweetmeat containing nuts and cherries	NOUGAT
Cinema award which, in Australia and New Zealand, is a colloquial word for money	OSCAR
City where many demonstrations in the 2005 Cedar Revolution took place	BEIRUT
Colour of shirt and shorts in Chelsea’s home strip	royal blue
Cornelius “____” Warmerdam held the pole vault world record from 1940 to 1957	DUTCH
Corporate leader who reports to the board of directors (abbreviation)	CEO
Creator deity of Incan mythology	VIRACOCHA
Deceitful sorcerer of The Faerie Queene	archimago
Division of General Motors which closed in 2010	PONTIAC
Element first made and used in the Second World War	PLUTONIUM
Forerunner of the sextant	ASTROLABE
Former Liberal Democrat leader who succeeded Charles Kennedy	Menzies Campbell
Former Radio 4 presenter of Woman’s Hour and Today	Sue MacGregor
Formerly, a drink like beer produced without hops	ALE
German phrase meaning “yes indeed”	ja wohl
In biological taxonomy, an alternative to “vascular plant”	tracheophyte
In the distant past	years ago
Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio ____ was first to note “canals” on the surface of Mars	SCHIAPARELLI
Lars ____ is Denmark’s prime minister	RASMUSSEN
Longest side of a right-angled triangle	HYPOTENUSE
Milton poem originally published with Samson Agonistes	Paradise Regained
Most notable landmark of Paris, to a Parisian	La Tour Eiffel
Multinational retail chain founded in the Netherlands in 1932	SPAR
Nato alphabet member between a weight and a boy’s name	LIMA
Of a legal proceeding, carried out without a judge, proper venue or jurisdiction	coram non judice
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark single which followed Souvenir	joan of arc
Pertaining to the calculation of insurance risks and premiums	ACTUARIAL
Piano made in New York or Hamburg	STEINWAY
Prime minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013	Morgan Tsvangirai
Primordial cells from which a body part develops	blastema
Psychoactive drug made from the bark of African trees, used in some countries to combat drug and alcohol addiction	ibogaine
Radio 1’s first female presenter	Annie Nightingale
Radio comedian of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s	Ted Ray
River which forms part of the border between the US and Mexico	Rio Grande
Rock outcrops smoothed by glaciation	roches moutonnees
Spiny cactus of the southwest US and northern Mexico	CHOLLA
Symbol used to indicate a ratio in mathematics	COLON
The beard of barley	AWN
The buck stopped at her husband’s desk	Bess Truman
The Great ____ is a headland northeast of Llandudno	ORME
The Great ____ of 1952 killed many Londoners	SMOG
The seed of Pisum sativum	PEA
The ____ are America’s most successful vocal group to date	SUPREMES
The ____ is the longest river in Europe	VOLGA
US vice-president succeeded by George Bush in 1981	Walter Mondale
Washington ____ wrote Rip Van Winkle	IRVING