The Times - Specialist - August 19 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 123 August 19 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 123
Clues	Answers
"Il serenissimo principe" was a name for the ____ of Venice	DOGE
"It is better to have a permanent ____ than to be fascinating" (Oscar Wilde)	INCOME
"The Brain__is wider than the Sky__ / For__put them side by side__ / The one the other will ____" (Emily Dickinson)	CONTAIN
18th-century composer Thomas ____ wrote Rule Britannia	ARNE
1933 Fannie Hurst novel, filmed in 1934 and 1959	Imitation Of Life
1997 action thriller starring Nicolas Cage and John Cusack	Con Air
A heroic poem, or modern retail technology	EPOS
Alcoholic drink, consumed in the Second World War US navy, which included grain alcohol fuel	torpedo juice
An Indian game hunter	SHIKARI
Andrew ____ was George Michael's partner in Wham!	ridgeley
Artist who said "I don't do drugs. I am drugs"	DALI
Author of Nana and Germinal	Emile Zola
Binary code used to represent font characters	ASCII
British rock band led by Ritchie Blackmore	RAINBOW
Cadbury Roses chocolate in a pink wrapper	Strawberry Dream
Canopied seat on an elephant's back	HOWDAH
Central defender for Benfica in the 1980s and 1990s who won five caps for Portugal	Samuel Quina
Cheapside watering hole frequented by Elizabethan literary figures in the Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen	Mermaid Tavern
Colombia's second largest city	medellin
Construction toy invented by Joel Glickman in 1992	K'Nex
English adaptation of Jacques Brel's Le Moribond, a hit for Terry Jacks in 1973 and Westlife in 1999	Seasons In The Sun
Famously soft-voiced snooker commentator who died in 2011	Ted Lowe
Fee paid to secure professional services; a household servant	RETAINER
Fictional character besotted with classmate Becky Thatcher	Tom Sawyer
Flapping	in a panic
French philosopher and priest who took part in the discovery of Peking Man	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Frozen dew, hoarfrost	RIME
Full name of the character played by Hannah Murray in Skins	Cassandra Ainsworth
Heavy metal band whose albums include Master of Puppets	METALLICA
Henry VIII's almoner and later Archbishop of York	Thomas Wolsey
Herring-like fish, its name sometimes extended to ____ shad	TWAITE
In drama, Aristotle's three unities are those of ____, time and place	ACTION
Journal-like posting on a platform such as YouTube	VLOG
Known as Baby Face Nelson, the criminal partner of John Dillinger	Lester Gillis
L Frank ____ wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	BAUM
Measurement or datum derived from an experiment	OBSERVATION
Polish biochemist noted for his work on, and naming of, vitamins	Casimir Funk
Published in 1920, F Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel	This Side of Paradise
Rank held by a warrant officer class 1 in the army or Royal Marines	regimental sergeant major
Shakespeare play, more fully ____, King of Britain	CYMBELINE
Surname shared by male and female British comedians	BRAND
The "raving ones", females who took part in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus	MAENADS
The epiploon or greater ___ is a fold of membrane supporting the viscera	OMENTUM
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	QUASIMODO
The only recording artist to have had (US) No 1 albums in each of the past six decades	Barbra Streisand
The Roman god of death	MORS
The superhero alter ego of Peter Parker	Spider-Man
The United States Army Special Forces	Green Berets
Thick Japanese noodles	UDON
To take away enthusiasm or courage	DISHEARTEN
Treasurer of, typically, a college or university	BURSAR
Using a rod and line	ANGLING
Where it is allowed, a plea of nolo ____ is often part of a plea bargain	contendere
____ Lee is the central character in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	LORELEI
____ won 52 titles as John McEnroe's doubles partner	Peter Fleming
____'s Decathlon was a computer game released in 1984	Daley Thompson