The Times - Specialist - November 11 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 135
Clues	Answers
“Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant […]. Please ____ and join me there.” (Sherlock Holmes)	come at once
“The ____ is the avenue to the heart” (Voltaire)	EAR
A conjuror	ILLUSIONIST
A solid component of fat	STEARIN
Actress who played Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day	Halle Berry
Alter ego used by William Makepeace Thackeray	Arthur Pendennis
An isometric saturated hydrocarbon found in motor fuel	OCTANE
An upper room in a medieval manor house	SOLAR
Area of England between the North and South Downs	the Weald
Black and white diving bird of northern seas	AUK
Carl ____ is Denmark’s best-known composer	NIELSEN
Character in a Dickens short story, who “must have been an offshoot of the Blue Beard family”	Captain Murderer
Covert military or government activities	black ops
Danica ____ is the only woman to win an IndyCar series race	PATRICK
Dutch theologian whose attempted reforms of Calvinism created the Remonstrant movement	Jacobus Arminius
Electronic conversion of printed or written text	OCR
Europe’s second-longest river	DANUBE
Ferdinand ____ was the supreme commander of Allied forces in the First World War	FOCH
Former Dutch coin, one twentieth of a guilder	STIVER
Hard-wearing cotton twill fabric	DENIM
Holiday resort between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries	BLACKPOOL
Ian ____’s first novel was The Cement Garden	MCEWAN
Ide is another name for this fish	ORFE
Improvisational comedy show hosted by Clive Anderson	Whose Line Is It Anyway
In 1926, Gertrude ____ became the sixth person and first woman to swim the Channel	EDERLE
Italian motorcycle racer known as The Doctor	Valentino Rossi
Lodging for the poor, provided by a charity	ALMSHOUSE
Macromolecule found in all living cells	RNA
Male head of a household	PATERFAMILIAS
Marlon ____ is a Jamaican cricketer who plays for the West Indies in all three international formats	SAMUELS
Mos Eisley’s dimly-lit tavern with a jazz band in Star Wars	CANTINA
Mountain area in which Grenoble and Chamonix are situated	French Alps
Muscular terrier, originally bred for blood sports	pit bull
Noel Coward play adapted for film as Brief Encounter	still life
Nursery rhyme possibly about the Scottish general Sir Alexander Leslie	There Was A Crooked Man
Punning; a 2006 film featuring contestants in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament	WORDPLAY
Rider of Mon Mome, 100-1 winner of the 2009 Grand National	Liam Treadwell
Singing cowboy Gene Autry’s equine companion	Champion the Wonder Horse
Small crustacean native to the coast of South Africa	Cape lobster
Sound made by covering and uncovering the bell of a brass instrument	wah-wah
Stage name of Peter Martin, bass guitarist of 1980s soul/funk band Linx	SKETCH
Stand-up comedian who hosts his own Comedy Roadshow for BBC 1	Michael McIntyre
Syria’s ancient city of ____ was added to Unesco’s world heritage in danger list in 2013	ALEPPO
The evergreen climber Hedera helix	IVY
The nave of a wheel	HUB
The non-existent virus named in an early case of hoax virus warnings, first seen by email in 1994	Good Times
The Outer Hebrides are also called “the ____”	Long Island
The singer of Che Gelida Manina in Puccini’s La Bohème	RODOLFO
The theory that members of a hierarchy rise to their level of incompetence	Peter Principle
The weight carried by a horse in a handicap race	IMPOST
The ____ became The Times in 1788	Daily Universal Register
The ____ coast is a popular tourist destination in Italy	AMALFI
Type of bridge contract in which the honours are the four aces	no trumps
Unable to produce new cells, causing defects in organs or tissue	aplastic
Veteran singer who had a No 1 hit with My Son, My Son	Vera Lynn
War galley with three banks of oars	TRIREME
Wigan-based inventor voiced by Peter Sallis	WALLACE
Word and picture puzzles	REBUSES