The Times - Specialist - March 31 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 155
Clues	Answers
“Dullness is the only crime for which an ____ ought to be hung” (Josephus Daniels)	EDITOR
“Not proven”	Scotch verdict
15th-century French army commander convicted of child murders, possibly an inspiration for Bluebeard	Gilles de Rais
2003 single by Tomcraft which reached No 1 in the UK charts	LONELINESS
A rational horse in Gulliver’s Travels	HOUYHNHNM
A sea slug	NUDIBRANCH
A very formal dress	ball gown
Actress who won an Oscar for her performance in Mrs Miniver	Greer Garson
Along with navigator Fred Noonan, ____ vanished in 1937	Amelia Earhart
Amphibian called the Mexican walking fish	AXOLOTL
Another name for the jack in playing cards	KNAVE
Anti-aircraft fire	ack-ack
Antidote to arsenic or mercury poisoning	dimercaprol
Bird of black plumage, often living in caves or on cliff faces	CHOUGH
City whose Old Calton Burial Ground has a statue of Abraham Lincoln	EDINBURGH
Criticism; abnormal narrowing of a bodily passageway	STRICTURE
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation character played by British actress Louise Lombard	Sofia Curtis
Curved sword originally used in the Middle East	SCIMITAR
Ebbing and flowing	TIDAL
Element used to make magnets commonly used in microphones and speakers	NEODYMIUM
Elisha ____ pioneered the first safety elevator	OTIS
Former comic actor now noted for his wildlife programmes	Bill Oddie
Gaelic kingdom associated with present-day Co Donegal	tyrconnell
God of the dead, afterlife, and rebirth in ancient Egyptian religion	OSIRIS
Joe ____ played Joey LaMotta in Raging Bull	PESCI
Lancashire resort which hosted The Open in 2012	Lytham St Annes
Local name for Sweden’s second-largest city	Goteborg
Location of the battle often called Custer’s Last Stand	Little Bighorn
Major Bantu language of East Africa and the Congo	SWAHILI
Manufacturer of an electric supermini called Zoe	RENAULT
Marine and freshwater fish, a popular Japanese delicacy	AYU
Market in Wentworth and Middlesex streets in London’s Spitalfields	Petticoat Lane
Military abbreviation which means fighting in a war	OAS
Motto of the Prince of Wales	ich dien
Nick Owen’s co-presenter on a BBC One morning show, 1992-96	Anne Diamond
Nickname for a version of the Bedford RL truck deployed during the fire service strike of 1977	Green Goddess
Of the stable elements, ____ has the highest atomic number	LEAD
Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs	acidophils
Scottish polymath known as “the Admirable”	James Crichton
Shakespearean character who says “Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”	OBERON
Sri Lanka’s current limited overs cricket captain, noted for his unusual bowling action	Lasith Malinga
St Augustine of ____ wrote The City of God	HIPPO
The Duke of Illyria in Twelfth Night	ORSINO
The longer (but not full) version of IT	INFOTECH
The unseen eponymous character in a Mike Leigh play	ABIGAIL
There is a statue of Molly ____ in front of Dublin’s tourist information office	MALONE
These Italian “trouser legs” are folded pizzas	CALZONI
Thomas Hardy poem about thrushes, in a cycle set to music by Benjamin Britten	Proud Songsters
To harass	CHIVVY
Tortoise, the last of his species, who died in 2012	Lonesome George