The Times - Specialist - July 22 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 119
Clues	Answers
“Human progress never ____ on wheels of inevitability” (Martin Luther King)	rolls in
“Isle” of the Outer Hebrides	HARRIS
“Now a soft kiss — / Aye, by that kiss, I ____ an endless bliss” (Keats)	VOW
“____ children are virtuosos of imagination” (Benjamin Spock)	PRESCHOOL
1965 Petula Clark album, named after her hit single of the previous year	DOWNTOWN
1967 single by the Temptations	All I Need
1976 Tom Robbins novel about Sissy Hankshaw, a girl with enormous thumbs	Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
1985 single by Kool and the Gang	FRESH
28th studio album by the Isley Brothers, released in 2001	ETERNAL
A change to eg a parliamentary bill or motion	AMENDMENT
A cylindrical building, usually domed	ROTUNDA
A ____ was Jonathan Swift’s first major work	Tale of a Tub
Actress who played Gran in the children’s TV series Metal Mickey	Irene Handl
Author of A Passage to India	E M Forster
Books of synonyms, and sometimes antonyms	THESAURI
Buddhist who has reached nirvana, roughly equivalent to a Christian saint	ARHAT
Capital of France’s Aube department and home to the Lacoste clothing factory	TROYES
Cartoonist whose If… strip has appeared in The Guardian since 1981	Steve Bell
Chicken-based soup of Scottish origin	cock-a-leekie
Citizen of the Arabian peninsula’s second largest country	YEMENI
Company which provides access to the internet	ISP
Designer of the first viable helicopter	Igor Sikorsky
Disco group founded in 1977 by Victor Willis	Village People
Drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease	L-dopa
Element whose name comes from a Spanish diminutive for “silver”	PLATINUM
English actor born Krishna Pandit Bhanji	Ben Kingsley
European country which gained full independence in 1830	GREECE
Flowering plant with varieties including Indian pink and bladderpod	LOBELIA
French philosopher whose observations on the power of love were quoted during the royal wedding of May 2018	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
German term for sparkling wine	sekt
Her 2000 debut novel White Teeth became a bestseller	Zadie Smith
In mathematics, another name for a factor	DIVISOR
Informally, an upper class person	posho
Institution whose first director was Sir Henry Cole	Victoria and Albert Museum
Island whose two parts are linked by La Coupée	SARK
Knot used for joining ropes together	sheet bend
Max ____ helped to formulate quantum theory	PLANCK
Nautical instruction to stop	AVAST
News reporter whose coverage of Ethiopian famine inspired the Band Aid charity	Michael Buerk
Old Testament prophet who God knowingly instructs to marry a woman who will be unfaithful	HOSEA
Police who may use shields and water cannons	riot squad
Ridden by Olivier Peslier, winner of the 2010 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot	HARBINGER
Rugby union player who captained Scotland 20 times	Gavin Hastings
Second of the Jack Reacher novels written by Lee Child	Die Trying
Shakespeare’s (rightful) Duke of Milan	PROSPERO
Shallow pit of the retina, with high visual acuity	FOVEA
Social networking site founded in 2007 by David Karp	TUMBLR
Spanish city founded in 221BC, a naval station in Murcia	CARTAGENA
State of Malaysia, in northern Borneo	SARAWAK
Supernatural novel by James Herbert set in 2006 and 1943	The Secret of Crickley Hall
The central point of an infection, from Latin for “nest”	NIDUS
The collective noun for larks	EXALTATION
The Old Man of ____ is on Skye’s Trotternish peninsula	STORR
The shortest book of the Old Testament	OBADIAH
The water opossum of south and central America	Yapok
This kind of lens or adapter may produce a circular image	FISHEYE
Town whose football fans are jokingly called codheads	GRIMSBY
Ulrich ____ gave his name to a figure skating jump	SALCHOW
Welsh footballer who spent all of his professional playing career at Manchester United	Ryan Giggs
____ juice is often used in cosmetics and shampoo	aloe vera