The Times - Specialist - November 4 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 134
Clues	Answers
"The nodding ____ bends before the wind" (The Fear of Flowers, John Clare)	ox-eye
"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to ____" (Voltaire)	ERROR
1968 Charles Portis novel and a 1969 John Wayne film	true grit
2017 Pixar film based on Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday	COCO
A dietary ____ deficiency is the main cause of goitre	IODINE
A sliding step in ballet	GLISSADE
A small German hotel	GASTHAUS
Achieves something — often one of many similar achievements	notches up
Actor noted for his roles as serial killer Freddy Krueger	Robert Englund
Actress who appeared in many Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "road" movies	Dorothy Lamour
Author of The Blue Flower	Penelope Fitzgerald
Author of The Good Soldier	Ford Madox Ford
Charles Dickens novel divided into five "staves"	A Christmas Carol
Classical Latin name for Ireland	HIBERNIA
Colloquial name for concrete obstacles intended to hinder the progress of tanks	dragons teeth
Connection between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara	BOSPHORUS
County whose Wikipedia article currently says "Not to be confused with South Essex"	East Sussex
Epithet for Peter Walker in the 1980s Conservative party	WET
Expression like "Ten items or less" or "you should of said"	SOLECISM
Final game or match which settles the outcome	DECIDER
Foodstuff possibly named after a Belgian city or region	PATE
Former Chelsea player-manager who made 66 appearances for the Netherlands	Ruud Gullit
Germany’s largest urban area	RUHR
Hilary Mantel novel, a follow-up to Wolf Hall, and winner of the 2012 Man Booker prize	Bring Up the Bodies
Hungary’s 27 per cent is currently the highest standard rate of ____ in Europe	VAT
In American whiskeys, the main alternative to bourbon	RYE
In Greek cuisine, a meat stew with onions	STIFADO
In Greek myth, a beautiful youth killed by a discus thrown by Apollo, his lover	HYACINTH
Informally, members of his party opposed to reforms started by Neil Kinnock	Old Labour
Informally, remove oneself from an online notification list	UNSUB
Jean-François Champollion is best-known as the ____ of Egyptian Hieroglyphs	DECIPHERER
Like mistletoe on trees	PARASITIC
London Weekend Television sitcom starring John Alderton as schoolteacher Bernard Hedges	Please Sir
Main protagonist of The Hunger Games	Katniss Everdeen
Margherita Taylor is the newest host of this BBC property programme	Escape to the Country
Name of the ranch, and its owner, reached by Chuck Noland at the end of Cast Away (2000 film)	BETTINA
One of the three Theban plays by Sophocles	Oedipus Rex
Open country or grassland of South Africa	VELD
Owing (rent, for example)	in arrears
Parasol which can also be used as an umbrella	en-tout-cas
Part of a series appearing on the internet rather than broadcast or cable TV	WEBISODE
Popular name for Phaseolus coccineus, grown ornamentally and for food	scarlet runner
Real Madrid manager who resigned after their 2018 UEFA Champions League victory	Zinedine Zidane
Roman Senator who played a leading role in the assassination of Julius Caesar	Marcus Brutus
Series of eight paintings by William Hogarth	A Rake's Progress
Small restaurant which, traditionally, brewed its own beer	BRASSERIE
Smallest of the Great Lakes	ONTARIO
The alligator pear	AVOCADO
The European ____ is a civil rights treaty, created in 1961	Social Charter
The person who had to be told about the 1986 privatisation of British Gas	SID
The S in HTTPS	SECURE
The son of an Austrian emperor	ARCHDUKE
Title of songs by Pink Floyd and the Spice Girls	STOP
To fall asleep, diminish, or leave someone at the airport?	drop off
Tom ___ starred in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence	CONTI
Vega is the brightest star in this small northern constellation	LYRA
Writer, philosopher and, for 51 years, partner of Jean-Paul Sartre	Simone de Beauvoir
Yuri is the first name of the protagonist in this Boris Pasternak novel	Doctor Zhivago