The Times - Specialist - December 2 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 138
Clues	Answers
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, ____” (Winston Churchill)	Hoping it will eat him last
“Love and ____ are the best sweeteners of tea” (Henry Fielding)	SCANDAL
“The smiles of love adorn, __ / ____ / Makes countless thousands mourn!” (Robert Burns)	man's inhumanity to man
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without ____” (W H Auden)	WATER
(Attempted) reconciliation between different religions or philosophies	SYNCRETISM
1981 film about a paralysed sculptor, adapted from a TV drama and stage play by Brian Clark	Whose Life Is It Anyway
1990 action film starring Jean-Claude van Damme as a legionnaire	LIONHEART
A pig's ____ is the source of pork chops	LOIN
A plain cotton cloth	CALICO
A sleeveless pullover	tank top
A word for a large boat from the Mediterranean, apparently not related to a famous boat of Greek myth	ARGOSY
Agony aunt whose autobiography was titled How Did I Get Here from There?	Claire Rayner
Athlete whose winning heptathlon score at the 1988 Olympics is still the world record	Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee
Book identification code, with 13 digits since 2007	ISBN
Cannabis sativa	Indian hemp
Charles ____ created the cartoon strip Peanuts	SCHULZ
City in Florida's Greater Orlando area	KISSIMMEE
Computer file extension for programs rather than data	EXE
Director of films including Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
Eponymous time-traveller, played by Geoffrey Bayldon in a 1970s children's TV series	catweazle
Exempt from payment	toll-free
Feast day held on November 1	All Hallows
Final word in the text of Puccini's La Bohème	MIMI
Fluid-carrying tube in a plant or animal	VAS
Former German figure skater, a judge in one series of Dancing on Ice	Katarina Witt
Former Russian gymnast with seven floor, beam, and vault skills named after her	Nellie Kim
James single which, in three different versions, charted in 1989, 1991, and 1998	Sit Down
Jane Austen novel set in the fictional village of Highbury	EMMA
Largest city in France's Moselle department	METZ
Latin legal term for trespass with force and violence	vi et armis
Latin-based name for rock fragments ejected from a volcano, between volcanic bombs and volcanic ash in size	LAPILLI
Line behind which a darts player stands	OCHE
Machine often used to clean the exterior of stone buildings	SANDBLASTER
Male chicken fattened for eating	CAPON
Old Testament book about an attempt to exterminate the Jewish nation	ESTHER
Old-fashioned term for left-handedness	sinisterity
One of the two vegetables used to make vichyssoise	LEEK
One who provokes others to anger	NEEDLER
Opinion expressed in interviews with members of the public	vox pop
Piedmont province noted for its sparkling wine	ASTI
Poetry collection by Arthur Rimbaud, and a Benjamin Britten song cycle setting parts of it	Les Illuminations
Presenter of ITV's The Big Fight Live, 1984-2010	Jim Rosenthal
Racing driver known as The Stig on Top Gear	Ben Collins
The current 10 Down for Defence	Gavin Williamson
The final studio album by the Beatles	Let It Be
The first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels	Casino Royale
The muse of epic poetry	CALLIOPE
The Swedish version of mulled wine	GLOGG
The trumpet major of Thomas Hardy's novel	John Loveday
Title given to a cabinet minister in charge of a department	Secretary of State
Title given to a Muslim fighter against infidels	GHAZI
To soften or smooth	EMOLLIATE
Tropical tree or the orange food dye derived from it	ANNATTO
Turn into vinegar	acetify
Weeds with yellow flowers, milky juice and edible leaves	sow thistles
What a judge does before the jury retires	sum up
Wood also known as “African teak”	IROKO
____ beat Serena Williams in the 2018 Wimbledon women's singles final	Angelique Kerber