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The Times - Specialist - August 26 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 124
CluesAnswers
"A play for voices" set in Llareggubunder milk wood
"Crazy" was one of US country music singer Patsy ____'s greatest hits, in 1961CLINE
"The greatest batsman of all time", whose Test batting average was 99.94Sir Don Bradman
A cricketer's garb, colloquiallyWHITES
A male ____ has a reddish body, blue-grey head and black and white wingsCHAFFINCH
A possible birthplace for trout or turkeysHATCHERY
A real mess or muddleDog's breakfast
A white Rhine wineRUDESHEIMER
Athenian tragedian who wrote Antigone and ElectraSOPHOCLES
Australian Betty ____ is the only runner to have won Olympic gold in the 100m, 200m and 400mCUTHBERT
Baronetcy assumed by John Buchan when he was ennobled in 1935TWEEDSMUIR
Ben Kingsley, Whoopi Goldberg and Bono, egStage names
Caesar's comment about his victory at Zela in 47BCveni vidi vici
Captain of England in 2009 when they won their first Ashes Test at Lords since 1934Andrew Strauss
Charitable organisation whose logo includes a gearwheelROTARY
Comedian who played Inspector Raymond Fowler in the BBC series The Thin Blue LineRowan Atkinson
Concrete causeways, built in the Second World War, linking mainland Orkney with Burray and South RonaldsayChurchill Barriers
Dealer in textiles and apparelCLOTHIER
Easter ____, 1916 rebellion in Dublin which included the proclamation of an Irish RepublicRISING
Forename created for the heroine of an Exmoor novelLORNA
Former Pakistan cricket captain, elected as the country's president in JulyImran Khan
Geoff Boycott's signature headgearPanama hat
Headland of northwest Scotland, ten miles from DurnessCape Wrath
Ian Rankin's Edinburgh-based inspectorREBUS
Ill-suited as partnersMISMATCHED
In ancient Greece, six ____ made a drachmaOBOLS
In sporting cliché, form is temporary but ____ is permanentCLASS
In which we are all down for the count every ten yearsCENSUSES
Infection transmitted by ticks which may affect joints, heart or brainLyme disease
Joined other passengers on the Flying Scotsman or EurostarENTRAINED
Lord Mountbatten's home in Hampshire where Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh honeymoonedBROADLANDS
Master of the ____, the head of the civil division of the Court of AppealROLLS
Memorial to Queen Victoria at one end of The MallAdmiralty Arch
Nationality of Maria Bueno and Emerson FittipaldiBRAZILIAN
Native Americans who once lived in and around the southern AppalachiansCHEROKEES
Northern arm of the Pacific Ocean, renowned for its king crab fisheriesbering sea
Pass in a mountain rangeCOL
Refusing to yield to authority, rebelliousINSUBORDINATE
Royal dynasty which reached its zenith in the reign of Emperor Charles Vhabsburgs
Small shrimp-like crustaceans, main food of baleen whalesKRILL
Southernmost point of Campbeltown's peninsula, and the 1977 Christmas No 1 for WingsMull of Kintyre
Sticky, heavy and unhealthy foodSTODGE
Stops briefly — as Dave Brubeck might?Takes five
Tallis ____, ensemble specialising in early choral musicSCHOLARS
Tax on goods produced for the home marketEXCISE
The common ____ is the largest antelope of southern and eastern AfricaELAND
The family skeleton which should not be exposed to public gazeDirty linen
The Irish monk who founded Lindisfarne PrioryAIDAN
This gemstone is a greenish-blue form of berylAQUAMARINE
US actor, the star of Midnight Cowboy and Rain ManDustin Hoffman
Vegetable used in hummus and falafelsCHICKPEA
Wading bird with a long horizontally flattened beakSPOONBILL
Weaken in qualityIMPAIR
Wendy ____'s first sitcom role as a middle-class housewife was in Not in Front of the ChildrenCRAIG
Wife of Louis XIII of France and daughter of Philip III of SpainAnne of Austria
Winter sport with cross-country and jumping eventsNordic skiing
Without complications or conditionsNo strings attached

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