The Times - Specialist - April 15 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 105 April 15 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
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'Pay attention to your ____, because everyone else will' (Hillary Clinton)	HAIR
100 cubic metres	hectostere
1969 comedy western starring James Garner	Support Your Local Sheriff
A fortified retreat for a garrison	REDUIT
A heavy but soft type of satin	DUCHESSE
A rolled and filled tortilla	TACO
A ruler of the Church	ecclesiarch
Actress who played Kevin’s mother in We Need to Talk About Kevin	Tilda Swinton
Actress who won an Oscar for her role as Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets	Helen Hunt
African mountain range named after a Greek Titan	ATLAS
Bill ____, cartoonist who created The Fosdyke Saga	TIDY
Boxer who, after forced retirement, returned to defeat Mike Tyson in 1996	Evander Holyfield
Boy band who became a foursome after Zayn Malik’s departure in 2015	One Direction
Canadian jockey best known for riding Seabiscuit	Red Pollard
Capital de Andalucía	SEVILLA
Chess piece whose name possibly derives from a Persian word meaning “chariot”	ROOK
Colloquially, both 'expensive' and the northernmost area of Australia's Northern Territory	Top End
Current manager of Chelsea FC	Antonio Conte
Durable wood of the Tectona grandis tree	TEAK
First of the major Hebrew prophets (OT)	ISAIAH
Former republic whose territory is now divided between six European nations	YUGOSLAVIA
Found in various places in a published work	PASSIM
German-American pioneer of modernist architecture	Ludwig Mies
Grassy area (often poetic)	SWARD
Gripping device at either end of a jump lead	crocodile clip
Holocaust survivor who wrote If This Is a Man	Primo Levi
In music, a slide from one note to another	PORTAMENTO
In Spanish, a mule driver	ARRIERO
In the Middle East, a counterpoise device for gathering water	shaduf
Indian side dish of yoghurt, typically with cucumber	RAITA
Informal American name for one supporting democratic capitalism	NEOCON
Lack of worldliness	NAIVETE
Large vase, typically with a pedestal or feet	URN
Long-handled spoon used for serving soup	LADLE
Lowest part of the small intestine	ILEUM
Martin ____ wrote the novel Time’s Arrow	AMIS
Means of world wide web access for small devices such as mobile phones	microbrowser
Novel whose first narrator is Mr Lockwood	Wuthering Heights
Number from which another is subtracted	MINUEND
Opening line of the Shelley poem To a Skylark	Hail to thee blithe Spirit
Peninsula which is the only part of Egypt in Asia	SINAI
Peter Shelley wrote and sang Alvin ____’s 1973 debut hit My Coo-Ca-Choo	STARDUST
Place of religious retreat	CLOISTER
Popular houseplant presented as a symbol of middle class values by George Orwell	ASPIDISTRA
Proprietary name of a disposable cleaning rag	J-cloth
Sea monster described by Milton as the 'hugest of living creatures'	LEVIATHAN
Spanish footballer who played his last game for Bayern Munich in May 2017	Xabi Alonso
Teflon	POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE
The dried seeds of an Asian plantain, used in the treatment of dysentery	ispaghula
The maidenhair tree	GINGKO
The poster tag line for this film was 'This is Benjamin. He’s a little worried about his future.'	The Graduate
The ____ Bengals have never won the Super Bowl	CINCINNATI
TV broadcasting system used in most of Europe	PAL
Two-part collection of preludes and fugues for solo keyboard by Bach	The Well-Tempered Clavier
What Mumble is able to do in the 2006 film Happy Feet	tap-dance
Willy Russell stage comedy which debuted in 1980	Educating Rita
Writer of lyric poetry	ODIST