The Times - Specialist - January 6 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 143
Clues	Answers
"A little ____ now and then keeps life from stagnation" (Fanny Burney)	ALARM
"A thought is an idea in ____" (Pythagoras)	TRANSIT
"Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble ____s" (Einstein)	TEACHER
1965 new wave French film based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White	Pierrot le Fou
1976 gothic horror novel by Anne Rice	Interview With The Vampire
1995 sci-fi horror film starring Natasha Henstridge as Sil	SPECIES
A dog collar which tightens when pulled	choke chain
A reading desk	LECTERN
Actor celebrated (as dead) in a 1979 single by Bauhaus	Bela Lugosi
Actor who played Superman in the 1978 film	Christopher Reeve
Actor who said "A good review ... is just another stay of execution"	Dustin Hoffman
Actress who portrayed 24 Down	Emma Watson
Actress who said "Deep down, I’m pretty superficial"	Ava Gardner
Another name for cassava	MANIOC
As well as fictional gangsters, Damon ____ wrote about baseball	RUNYON
Australian swimmer who won three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing	Stephanie Rice
Birth name of Pope Clement XI, whose ancestors came to Italy from the other side of the Adriatic	Giovanni Francesco Albani
Creamy paste of clay and water used in pottery	SLIP
Device used to pull two skiers uphill	T-bar
Esteban ____ will be the reserve driver for Mercedes in 2019	ocon
Exam between the School Certificate and GCSE in educational history	O-level
Fleetwood Mac’s most successful album	RUMOURS
From Greek, the ruler of a district	TOPARCH
Germany’s armed forces of 1935-45	WEHRMACHT
Gulf on which France and Spain have extensive coastlines	Bay of Biscay
Harry Potter character whose Patronus is an otter	Hermione Granger
Having equal "pulling power" of induction	isomagnetic
Hungarian conductor long associated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra	Georg Solti
Larval amphibian also called a pollywog	TADPOLE
Medical prefix pertaining to resistance to infection or disease	IMMUNO
Mischievous and sometimes evil god Norse god	LOKI
Name given to the stretch of promenade between Blackpool’s North and South piers	Golden Mile
Of a government, to transfer powers to regional administration	DEVOLVE
Old musical instrument, typically with frets and six strings	VIOL
Outdoor swimming pool, named after a beach near Venice	LIDO
Passed on (information, for example)	RELAYED
Photocopying process based on a compound’s decomposition when exposed to light	DIAZO
Racing game which has been exclusive to the PlayStation since its launch in 1997	Gran Turismo
Resembling an earthworm	lumbricoid
River which joins the Tigris at Shatt al-Arab	EUPHRATES
Situated between the two branches of the lower jaw	interramal
Small lizards noted for their ability to climb	GECKOES
Small songbird native to heath or scrubland	STONECHAT
South coast resort with the oldest seaside pleasure pier in the world, opened in 1814	RYDE
Structure which carries US Route 101 between San Francisco and Marin County	Golden Gate Bridge
Tennis player who won the 1973 men’s French Open without dropping a set, the first to do so	Ilie Nastase
The ability of a vehicle to remain stable, especially when cornering at speed	ROADHOLDING
The first golfer to reach $1 million in career earnings on the PGA tour	Arnold Palmer
The Labour Party’s first parliamentary leader	Keir Hardie
The protagonist of Pride and Prejudice	Elizabeth Bennet
The Tonton Macoutes once terrorised this country	HAITI
UN secretary-general who said "There can be no ‘plan B’ because there is no ‘planet B’"	Ban Ki-moon
Virtuoso pianist and composer, student of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt	Carl Czerny
Warty amphibian of the order Anura	TOAD
Yiddish term for non-Jews	GOYIM
____ was hanged for piracy after being assigned to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean	Captain Kidd