The Times - Specialist - December 16 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 140
Clues	Answers
"But you forget, sir, you only bought the property a year ago, and the ___ on your baronial castle is scarcely dry" (Pirates of Penzance)	STUCCO
"Fate cannot harm me, __ I have ____ to-day" (Sydney Smith)	DINED
"[…] if a monster were out roaming northern England we’d have seen it on the ____" (An American Werewolf in London)	TELLY
1975 Booker Prize winner for Heat and Dust	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1982 Hot Chocolate single, reissued in 1993 and 1998	It Started With A Kiss
1994 hit single by The Brand New Heavies	Midnight at the Oasis
1999 film starring Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall, with a title presumably inspired by a 1966 comedy film	Guest House Paradiso
2001 single by Sophie Ellis-Bextor	Murder on the Dancefloor
2004 album, and a single from it, by Natasha Bedingfield	UNWRITTEN
A baton used by a constable rather than a conductor	TRUNCHEON
A contribution of work or information	INPUT
A French vineyard or group of vineyards, especially of high quality	CRU
A German town hall	rathaus
Abbreviated, this single-currency agreement is a bird	European Monetary Union
Actor who played Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws and Jaws 2	Roy Scheider
Alloy of copper and gold used in Japanese decoration	shakudo
An area which foreign aircraft, vessels etc may not enter	exclusion zone
An Ursuline or Poor Clare	NUN
Arthur ____ is the only black player to win a men’s singles Grand Slam title other than the French Open	ASHE
Bird of prey which may be booted, fish, snake or harpy	EAGLE
Boat which, as a dugout, may be called a pirogue	CANOE
Detective fiction writer who dismissed W G Grace with his only first-class wicket	Arthur Conan Doyle
Dutch footballer who won Champions League titles with Ajax, Real Madrid, and Milan	Clarence Seedorf
Egypt, Syria, and North Yemen confederation, 1958-61	United Arab States
Equilateral quadrilaterals	RHOMBI
Forename which originally meant the same as Lily	SUSAN
General James ____ died in the hour of victory, over the French at Quebec in 1759	WOLFE
German model who was the face of Armani and Chanel Cosmetics	Claudia Wagner
Grain for grinding	GRIST
Harassed or pressured	chivvied
Informally, a historic state which included Goa	Portuguese India
Information gathered, prior to any processing to remove anomalies	raw data
Irish town on the River Boyne	DROGHEDA
Italian island whose Blue Grotto attracts tourists	CAPRI
Jack ____ wrote On the Road	KEROUAC
Made without machinery	HANDCRAFTED
Malaysian fashion designer noted for handmade women’s shoes	Jimmy Choo
Milvus milvus, a bird of prey easily recognised by the shape of its tail	red kite
Mythological hero of the Trojan war, a cousin of Achilles	AJAX
Nathan Zuckerman is the fictional alter ego of US novelist Philip ____	ROTH
Nothing	NADA
Official minutes of proceedings	ACTA
Patronymic name for Hercules, also a genus of Australasian moths	alcides
Prefix denoting the windpipe	tracheo
Rank from which a soldier might be promoted to Hauptmann	oberleutnant
Skin disease causing a flushed appearance	acne rosacea
Snakeweed	adderwort
The first European explorer to reach India by sea	Vasco da Gama
The Greek goddess of discord, and the name of a jumping spider	ERIS
The introduction to a discourse	EXORDIUM
The island of magicians in Gulliver’s Travels	glubbdubdrib
The right-hand page of an open book	RECTO
The Taj Mahal is located in this city	AGRA
The unit for measuring doses of X-rays	ROENTGEN
To improvise music, usually in a group	JAM
Tool used to remove weeds or break up soil	HOE
Type of cabbage with curly leaves	KALE
Vaccine which some people believe causes autism	MMR
Withdrew or diminished	RECEDED
Worldwide manufacturing company, founded in 1920 by brothers who owned the Puerto Rico Telephone Company	ITT