The Times - Specialist - September 16 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 127
Clues	Answers
“Old”, or barley wine	strong ale
1996 film in which Tom Hanks was co-star, director and screenwriter	That Thing You Do
A degree, or part of one, awarded when exams are missed because of illness	AEGROTAT
A generous or gullible person	easy touch
A reindeer skin boot with the fur on the outside	finnesko
A tiny circus performer	FLEA
A vehicle for travel on frozen surfaces	ice yacht
Added to a team, usually with a specific objective in mind	drafted in
An arthropod’s sensory appendage	ANTENNA
Antique British pottery inspired by ancient Greece	Etruscan ware
Author who declined the 1958 Nobel prize in literature	Boris Pasternak
Author whose best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse	Francoise Sagan
Cartoonist who depicted pupils of St Custard’s and St Trinian’s	Ronald Searle
Classical author of The Art of Love and Cures for Love	OVID
Compact ____ was the official name for this recording format	CASSETTE
Conflict of the late 17th century, between France and several other European nations	War of the Grand Alliance
Construction of this northern frontier barrier of the Roman empire began around AD142	Antonine Wall
Despite its name, most of this foodstuff is produced in England	Caerphilly cheese
Districts of this county include Charnwood and Harborough	LEICESTERSHIRE
Drummer Cozy ____ played for bands including Whitesnake and Black Sabbath	POWELL
Flann ____, pseudonymous author of The Third Policeman	O'Brien
Floyd ____ won 1952 Olympic middleweight gold and became world heavyweight champion in 1956	PATTERSON
Form of rapture expressed by Nanki-Poo in The Mikado	MODIFIED
Former power source for dental drills	TREADLE
French for “behind” or “backwards”	en arriere
Greenham Common was the UK’s best-known example of this form of protest	peace camp
Gumbo, or ladies’ fingers	OKRA
John ____ was the BBC’s first and longest-serving director general	REITH
Landscape gardener ____ is best known for his work at Versailles	Andre Le Notre
Lava before we can see it	MAGMA
Lewis Carroll’s caricature of himself in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	DODO
Mark Twain’s real name	Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Member of a medieval trade association	GUILDSMAN
Member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Coming	SHAKER
Mrs Flintstone	WILMA
Muhammad’s father-in-law, the first Muslim caliph	Abu-Bakr
Nationality of every 1960s Olympic marathon champion	ETHIOPIAN
One of the south Oxfordshire towns which combine to produce Causton in Midsomer Murders	THAME
Ores of this metal include sphalerite and smithsonite	ZINC
Reptile which can live for many decades	Galapagos giant tortoise
Roman Catholic organisation founded by Josemaria Escriva in 1928	Opus Dei
Russia’s Republic of ____ has a coast on the Caspian Sea	DAGESTAN
Sicilian coastal town where DH Lawrence lived in the early 1920s	taormina
Squirrel-sized New World monkey	TAMARIN
Study of past mining, manufacturing, transport and public utilities	industrial archaeology
Swedish for Sweden	SVERIGE
Tartan garments	TREWS
The Citroën 2CV and Renault 4 both had a dashboard-mounted ____	gear lever
The sacred river of Coleridge’s Xanadu	ALPH
The theme song for this Bond film was Nobody Does It Better	The Spy Who Loved Me
The ____ Us is a video game set in a post-apocalyptic America	last of
This city is the successor to Citium, birthplace of Zeno the Stoic	LARNACA
To awaken a memory	ring a bell
To match or surpass, usually by imitation	EMULATE
Types of this device include piston and poppet	VALVE
Un homme d’____ is a French businessman	AFFAIRES