The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 106 April 22 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 106
Clues	Answers
… or this crested European bird with pink plumage	HOOPOE
'Everything a Motorhome Should Be' is the slogan of this US brand	WINNEBAGO
'Not a wery nice neighbourhood' according to Sam Weller	WHITECHAPEL
& 38 Savoy duo whose first collaboration was Thespis [three-word answer]	GILBERT
A chain for a fob watch	ALBERT
A fine strong silky fabric	NINON
A German count with jurisdiction over a territory	LANDGRAVE
A judge’s comments made in passing, but of persuasive authority	Obiter dicta
A person’s particular fears and dislikes	Betes noires
A plastic explosive, originally made in Czechoslovakia	SEMTEX
A program replacing the usual monitor image when a computer is not in use	Screen saver
A severe reprimand	Talking-to
A slender hardwood spear from southern Africa	ASSEGAI
A space-walking astronaut’s essential connection to the spacecraft	Umbilical cord
A state in western Brazil, and a high plateau which extends further	Mato Grosso
A volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea	ISCHIA
Alfred ____, English poet, best known for his ballad The Highwayman	NOYES
American cats which resemble leopards	OCELOTS
An early type of oboe	HAUTBOY
Ancient British tribe which rebelled against the Romans in AD61	ICENI
Australian cricket captain banned after the ball-tampering episode during the Cape Town Test in March	Steve Smith
Bexhill, Hastings and Uckfield are in this county	East Sussex
Burghley House is near to this Lincolnshire market town	STAMFORD
Cartoonist and illustrator Gerald ____ has worked for The Sunday Times and Pink Floyd	SCARFE
Citizens of Entebbe	UGANDANS
Custard dessert covered in caramelised sugar	Creme brulee
Danish city where Hans Christian Andersen was born	ODENSE
Diluted perfume	Eau de toilette
Ductless gland in the neck producing white blood cells in one’s early years	THYMUS
Either of the two cavities of the heart into which blood passes from the veins	ATRIUM
Florentine painter of The Birth of Venus	BOTTICELLI
French author of the novel series La Comedie Humaine	BALZAC
Friar’s lantern or ignis fatuus	Will-o'-the-wisp
Historically, this industry was located in stannaries	Tin mining
Ibsen drama about gender roles in marriage	A Doll's House
In March, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi was controversially re-elected as the president of this country	EGYPT
Japan’s largest island where Mount Fuji is located	HONSHU
Jean-Honoré ____ painted The Stolen Kiss which hangs in the Hermitage Museum	FRAGONARD
Judith ____, lead singer of the Seekers	DURHAM
London area where Bartholomew Fair was held, 1133-1855	smithfield
Mike ____, the boxer who bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a 1997 fight	TYSON
Name linking Fittipaldi, Ralph Waldo and Roy	EMERSON
Namely	To wit
One exploring Gaping Ghyll or Rhino Rift	POTHOLER
One observing a mavis, merle or goatsucker …	ORNITHOLOGIST
Related on the father’s side	AGNATE
Relating to dreams	ONEIRIC
Scottish dance for four couples	Eightsome reel
See 48	and sullivan
Swiss city which is the seat of the International Olympic Committee	LAUSANNE
Thane of Lochaber whose ghost appears in Macbeth	BANQUO
The 19th century’s supreme piano virtuoso, and composer of the Faust Symphony	LISZT
The cashew tree; a kind of mahogany	ACAJOU
The Centre of Alternative Technology is near this town in Powys	MACHYNLLETH
The ____ Sea is the place where eels breed	SARGASSO
Title borne by certain Muslim princes	AMEER
Town in southern Herefordshire which promotes itself as 'the birthplace of tourism'	Ross-on-Wye
Toxic element formerly used in rat poison	THALLIUM
TV comedian who did things 'in the best possible taste'	Kenny Everett
US jazz pianist whose big band played Li’l Darlin’	Count Basie
Violent action leading to a change in government	coup d'etat
Waters separating Korea from the east coast of China	Yellow Sea