The Times - Specialist - December 9 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 139
Clues	Answers
“Finding bad ____ for what one believes for other bad ____ — that’s philosophy” (Aldous Huxley)	REASONS
“Our people grumbled for more ____ and washing machines” (Russian ambassador, in Doctor Strangelove)	NYLONS
“The ____ from the palace has the brew that is true” (Danny Kaye, in The Court Jester)	CHALICE
1980s pop movement which included Duran Duran	New Romantic
A number used to indicate the position of a point	co-ordinate
A theatre’s ____ bar serves interval drinks	CRUSH
Alliterative Scots name for a hanging clock with exposed pendulum and weights	wag-at-the-wa
An adjectival meaning of “desert”	UNINHABITED
Athlete who won the javelin and 80m hurdles at the 1932 Olympics, and under her married name, three US Women’s Opens in golf	Babe Didrikson
Baroness ____ wrote the Scarlet Pimpernel novels	ORCZY
Based in Switzerland, the world’s largest food company	NESTLE
Beast captured by Hercules in the fourth of his labours	Erymanthian boar
Beetle that was sacred in ancient Egypt	SCARAB
Bette Davis starred in this 1948 film about journalists covering a wedding	June Bride
CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain five times	timothy Taylor's Landlord
Card game in which you may have to lie	CHEAT
Coastal drowned river valley, such as Milford Haven	RIA
Contested at the 1912 Olympics, a variant of some throwing events, possibly favouring ambidextrous athletes	Both hands
Deborah ____ has been a Dragons’ Den investor since 2006	meaden
Descriptive name for realgar, an ore of a toxic element	red arsenic
European nation whose flag has blue, black and white stripes	ESTONIA
Faye Dunaway’s co-star and producer in Bonnie and Clyde	Warren Beatty
Ferrero product which apparently uses a quarter of the world supply of hazelnuts	NUTELLA
Foodstuff used in pina coladas and some curry recipes	coconut cream
Gary ____ played Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour	OLDMAN
George and Ira Gershwin’s I Got ____ was written for the musical Girl Crazy	RHYTHM
Glam rock band whose Lonely This Christmas was the UK’s Christmas No 1 in 1974	MUD
Human beings have five ____ organs, two in pairs	SENSORY
International agreement negotiated in the 1960s, intended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons	Non-Proliferation Treaty
Lack of bonhomie	ALOOFNESS
Many ____ are produced with Penicillium roqueforti	blue cheeses
Ornamental loop, originally intended to prevent loss of a weapon in battle	sword knot
PDQ ____ is a composer invented by musical satirist Peter Schickele	BACH
Sculptor of the bronze David in Florence’s Bargello	DONATELLO
Sea stack in the Orkney Islands, first climbed in 1966	Old Man of Hoy
Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in ____	A Study in Scarlet
Sicilian dish usually including aubergines, celery, onions, capers, raisins and vinegar	caponata
Suite for piano, considered Isaac Albeniz’s masterpiece	IBERIA
Surface-ripened cheese, named after an East Prussia town (now called Sovetsk)	TILSIT
Sword with a sharply pointed blade, used to pierce armour	ESTOC
The capital of Niger	NIAMEY
The gravitational equilibrium by which the earth’s crust “floats” over its mantle	ISOSTASY
The most common ester in wine, also used to decaffeinate coffee beans	ethyl acetate
The part of the throat above the larynx and oesophagus	PHARYNX
The title of this Somerset Maugham novel is a quotation from Twelfth Night	Cakes and Ale
This is an unanswerable question for you to think about	KOAN
This is often recommended as a good way to pack a formal jacket in a suitcase	inside out
To convert from liquid to vapour and back again	DISTIL
To pass, survive or win, but only just	squeak through
To place things close together or side by side	JUXTAPOSE
Village at the southern end of the Pennine Way	EDALE
Wading bird named after its feeding technique	TURNSTONE
What Hansel and Gretel left behind (unsuccessfully) to help them find their way home from the forest	BREADCRUMBS
Words attributed to Caesar, crossing the Rubicon	the die is cast
____ and the Trossachs National Park was established in 2002	Loch Lomond
____ law was a legal code, often equated with the exclusion of women from inheritance	SALIC