The Times - Specialist - April 14 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 157
Clues	Answers
“‘gh’ ____ ‘cough’” begins a creative respelling of “fish” often attributed to George Bernard Shaw	as in
“Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ____. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash” (Sergei Rachmaninov)	IGNOBLE
“It’s the tobacco that counts” was the slogan for Player’s ____	navy cut
1979 legal drama film starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep	Kramer vs Kramer
1A reached many ____	SUMMITS
A disguised identification, especially for military purposes or in espionage	CRYPTONYM
A lack of red blood cells	ANAEMIA
A North American name for the 24-hour clock	military time
A pink pig floats above ____ on the cover of the Pink Floyd’s album Animals	Battersea Power Station
A route for award nominees	red carpet
A symptom used to identify a disease	DIAGNOSTIC
A technical name for a pun	PARONOMASIA
A very cold or reserved manner	ICINESS
A ____ nose may be the result of a fight	bloodied
Alexei ____ won all-around gymnastics gold at the Sydney Super Dome in 2000	nemov
An old name for iron sulphate	green vitriol
At the 1948 Olympics, 25,000 cups of ____ were served to competitors	OVALTINE
Bjorn Borg’s playing style included heavy ____ on both wings	TOPSPIN
Brothers or sisters, or other relatives	SIBS
Cadair Idris and Tryfan are mountains located in ____	Snowdonia National Park
Calculating the area under a curve in maths	integrating
COM1 or COM2 on a 20th-century PC-compatible computer	serial port
Computer language named after a 19th-century female mathematician	ADA
From agricultural production, a nickname for Tasmania	Apple Isle
Fungal disease of plants, especially cereals, causing black sooty marks on leaves	SMUT
Fuss or commotion	hoo-ha
In 1975 ____ led the first successful ascent of Everest by a face rather than a ridge	Chris Bonington
In human beings, an arm	FORELIMB
In music, “with spirit”	con brio
In the shape of a letter S or its Greek equivalent	sigmate
Italian for “witch”, also a brand of herbal liqueur	STREGA
Joseph ____ built Chatsworth’s Emperor Fountain and Conservative Wall (a long greenhouse)	PAXTON
Peter the Great, Benjamin Franklin and Oscar Wilde could have been described as ____	pro-French
Plectrum used by guitarists	PICK
Press Ctrl+Shift+N to get such a window in Google Chrome	INCOGNITO
Region along the Nile, between Aswan and Khartoum	NUBIA
Speaking or writing a language, but not very well	non-fluent
Storage for cigars or other tobacco	HUMIDOR
Substance obtained by distilling wood or coal	TAR
The first period of the Mesozoic era, in which dinosaurs first appeared	TRIASSIC
The main language spoken in Tashkent	UZBEK
The world’s oldest rowing race, held annually on the River Thames since 1715	Doggett's Coat and Badge
Tilt	tip over
To ____ someone’s heels is to compete intensely with a slightly superior rival	nip at
Tony ____ was England captain until it was known that he had recruited players for Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket	GREIG
Torn skin near the end of a finger	HANGNAIL
TV comedy set in Royston Vasey	The League Of Gentlemen
____ won Oscars for his roles in Mystic River and Milk	Sean Penn