The Times - Specialist - March 25 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 102 March 25 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
“Discord oft in music makes the sweeter ____” (Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene)	LAY
“Terms like grace, new birth, justification […] which with St Paul are ____ terms, theologians have employed as if they were scientific terms” (Matthew Arnold)	LITERARY
A flower and a stringed instrument	VIOLA
A long lock of hair	TRESS
A Russian city with a Brandenburg Gate	KALININGRAD
Abatements	let-ups
After the four “great Latin Fathers”, the earliest Doctor of the Church	Thomas Aquinas
Alcoholic drink named after the Tower of London’s Yeoman Warders	Beefeater Gin
Alcoholic drinks given to departing horse riders	stirrup cups
American business family with companies selling oil and stock photographs	GETTY
An occasion when the sun is furthest from the equator	SOLSTICE
Archduke ____’s assassination in 1914 prompted Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia	Franz Ferdinand
Architect and minister for armaments and war production under Hitler	Albert Speer
Bent brace, used to gain headroom in an attic	knee rafter
Borneo and Sumatra are part of this geographical feature	Malay Archipelago
Central American plant bearing small edible berries	TOMATILLO
Cock-eyed	ASKEW
Comic strip by Alex Graham, first published in 1963	Fred Basset
Doctrines listed in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer	Thirty-nine Articles
Dravidian language of Sri Lanka and southern India	TAMIL
EastEnders character, first married to Trevor Morgan	Little Mo
English blues band who released their 22nd album, 13 Shades of Blue, in 2016	Nine Below Zero
Footballer with 52 caps for Wales, who played for Hull City and Bolton Wanders in the Premier League	Sam Ricketts
Former cricketer appointed England batting coach in November 2014	Mark Ramprakash
Former eyot of the Thames on which Westminster Abbey was built	Thorney Island
In a political context, to run in order to sit	STAND
Investment instrument which moves risk away from a lender or debtholder	Credit Derivative
John ____ rose to fame as a panellist on Whose Line Is It Anyway?	SESSIONS
Language used with HTML and CSS in webpage content	JAVASCRIPT
Legislation imposing tax on the transfer of particular documents	Stamp Act
Liverpool paid £35 million for striker Andy ____ in 2011 — more than £5 million for each goal he scored for them	CARROLL
Maritime organisation whose work is currently shown on Tuesdays on BBC2	rnli
Measuring device attached to inverted bottles of spirits	OPTIC
Mexican dish of fried food in soft tortillas	FAJITAS
Musician and actor who won a Golden Globe for his role in A Star Is Born	Kris Kristofferson
Name popularised by a Victorian novel subtitled Little by Little	ERIC
Native people originally occupying what is now the southeastern United States	CHOCTAW
Navigable lakes in East Anglia	BROADS
Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously	polyrhythmic
Peer who won eleven Paralympic Games gold medals	Tanni Grey-Thompson
Pertaining to a second-year student (US)	SOPHOMORIC
Play whose titular character journeys from Norway to North Africa	Peer Gynt
Semi-aquatic mammal, hunted and later farmed for its fur	MINK
Short-tailed African eagle	BATELEUR
Song from Evita which uses the same tune as Don’t Cry For Me Argentina	Oh What A Circus
Space to the left of a paragraph, or before its first word	INDENT
Spanish city famed for its sword blades	TOLEDO
Stage name of rapper and actor Lesane Crooks	Tupac Shakur
Stuffy, both literally and metaphorically	FUSTY
The fixed ridge at one end of a stringed instrument’s fingerboard	NUT
The point directly over the origin of an earthquake	EPICENTRE
The side of a cathedral choir which is not cantorial	DECANAL
The third and only extant play of a trilogy by Aeschylus	Seven Against Thebes
The UK’s largest clothing retailer	NEXT
The ____ of Confucius were compiled by his followers	ANALECTS
TV presenter whose most famous catchphrase was invented by impressionist Mike Yarwood	Max Bygraves