The Times - Specialist - August 5 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 121 August 5 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 121
Clues	Answers
"Always ____ trams" (Highway Code)	give way to
"Shee, you guys are so ____ it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off" (Zaphod Beeblebrox)	UNHIP
480 grains = 1 _____	troy ounce
A bone attached to the sternum	true rib
A friction hitch devised by an Austrian mountaineer	prusik knot
A rock transported by glacial action	ERRATIC
A short poem, especially a pastoral dialogue or soliloquy	ECLOGUE
Arthur ____ was the resident antiques expert on the BBC show Going for a Song	NEGUS
Band name seen on a fictitious band’s bass drum in the video for New Order’s Crystal, later used by an American rock band	The Killers
Brand of black and white film, now made in Cheshire	ILFORD
British vehicle launched at the Amsterdam motor show in 1948	Land Rover
Charles Édouard Guillaume invented this nickel/iron alloy	INVAR
Chelsea or Manchester City will win the ____ today	FA Community Shield
Component of cash registers and some calculators	ink roller
Content of a snow dome in titles for BBC World Cup 2018 coverage	St Basil's Cathedral
Done to satisfy superstition or ensure adequate provision	for luck
Earning no rent	UNLET
Eastbourne’s ____ Park is the home of a tennis tournament	DEVONSHIRE
Emperor who killed his mother, two wives, and himself	NERO
Engineer whose SR-N1 hovercraft first crossed the English Channel in 1959	Sir Christopher Cockerell
Fictional country in Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda	RURITANIA
Film starting with a four-letter word used five times	Four Weddings And A Funeral
For some, these include slow drivers and noisy eaters	pet hates
Iconic headgear for Ena Sharples in Coronation Street	HAIRNET
If necessary, ____ sugar can be made from granulated sugar with a pestle and mortar	ICING
In cliched language, this is wreaked	HAVOC
Indian unleavened flatbread	CHAPATI
Informally in backgammon, make a move that puts one of your opponent’s pieces on the bar	hit a blot
Informally, "La grande ____" is the Tour de France	BOUCLE
Informally, a parasitic mite larva, causing skin itching	CHIGGER
Informally, Surrey Country Cricket Club’s home ground	the oval
Iris Murdoch novel set in a lay religious community next door to a convent	The Bell
Jacques ____ originated deconstruction as a form of semiotic analysis	DERRIDA
John ____’s architecture in London includes the terraced houses of Park Crescent	NASH
Judging other cultures by the standards of one’s own	ethnocentric
Location where 51D of Citium taught, and the origin of the name for his followers	the Stoa
Lockheed wide-body aircraft produced between 1968 and 1984	TRISTAR
Loose skin hanging from the throat of various mammals	DEWLAP
Member of an eastern European church acknowledging papal supremacy but using its own liturgy	UNIAT
Mullein is the common name for this flowering plant genus	VERBASCUM
New York suburb, whose name comes from a Dutch equivalent to "esquire"	YONKERS
Novel partly about Billy Pilgrim’s wartime experiences	Slaughterhouse-Five
Originally American terpsichorean fitness classes	DANCERCISE
Rainbow-coloured arboreal parrot from the Lesser Sunda Islands	Iris Lorikeet
Recess where you might find seating or shelving	ALCOVE
Rhyming facetious slang for common office equipment	wagger-pagger-bagger
Sansevieria trifasciata, an evergreen perennial plant	mother-in-law's tongue
Someone in a dodgy business	RACKETEER
Spanish name for a gully, especially in the SW USA	ARROYO
The (non-biblical) supposed abode of the souls of unbaptised infants	LIMBO
The Hawthorne ____ is the modification of behaviour by those who know they are being observed	EFFECT
The kind of eclipse that is always safe to look at	LUNAR
The only successful defender of the Olympic heptathlon title	Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The RNLI use all-weather and ____ lifeboats	INSHORE
Thomas ____ had a research lab at Menlo Park, New Jersey	EDISON
To care, as Rhett Butler famously didn’t	give a damn
What you do to sauce with a whisk	AERATE
When accused by Debussy of ignoring form, Erik ____’s response was the piano duet Three Fragments in the Form of a Pear	SATIE
____ of Citium and ____ of Elea were both ancient Greek philosophers	ZENO
____ tides are those with the smallest range	NEAP