The Times - Specialist - April 7 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 156
Clues	Answers
“A leader who doesn’t ____ before he sends his nation into battle isn’t fit to be a leader” (Golda Meir)	HESITATE
“Mark where his carnage and his ____ cease! / He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace” (Byron)	CONQUESTS
1963 film about fictional rugby league footballer Frank Machin	This Sporting Life
A Ken Loach film; character played by Jennifer Lien in Star Trek: Voyager	KES
A two-masted sailing boat	KETCH
A wine grower or merchant	VINTNER
According to a 2013 survey, one who gives American children an average of $3.70 per “item”	tooth fairy
Andalusia’s second most populous city	MALAGA
Athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin	Jesse Owens
Band whose debut single (1978) was Take Me, I’m Yours	SQUEEZE
Beat it!	SKEDADDLE
Broadcaster who created That Was The Week That Was	Ned Sherrin
Building offering access to computer equipment for those in a rural area	telecottage
Comic opera whose central character has four daughters — Mabel, Edith, Kate, and Isabel	The Pirates of Penzance
Consider something at length	chew it over
Euphuism was the distinctive style of Elizabethan writer and playwright John ____	LYLY
Eva’s henpecked husband in several Tom Sharpe novels	WILT
Form of social protest used in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s	hunger march
Fort William is at the northeast end of ____	Loch Linnhe
Gold or silver coin once used in Europe	DUCAT
Ian ____ fronted Echo and the Bunnymen, 1978-88	mcculloch
In 2006 ____ won the best actress Oscar winner for Walk the Line	Reese Witherspoon
In Greek myth, soothsayer who introduced the worship of Dionysus	melampus
In US criminal law, a plea accepting conviction but not admitting guilt	no contest
Informally, a handgun	GAT
Innkeeper who appears in four Shakespeare plays	Mistress Quickly
Japanese musical instrument, usually with 13 strings	KOTO
Largest city of Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
Listening secretly	EARWIGGING
One who tends the fire on a steam train or ship	STOKER
Poet whose works include The Windhover	Gerard Manley Hopkins
Restaurant in which wine is traditionally served in a decanter rather than a bottle	TRATTORIA
Siberia’s largest city	NOVOSIBIRSK
Sixties band still fronted by Eric Burdon	The Animals
Someone with permanent and absolute tenure of land	FREEHOLDER
Spanish-Venezuelan female tennis player who became world No 1 in 2017	Garbine Muguruza
The Atomium in Brussels was built for ____ 58	EXPO
The golden ____ is an ornamental fish normally kept in outdoor ponds	ORFE
The Jewish feast of Purim celebrates this Persian queen	ESTHER
The most populous island in the US state of Hawaii	OAHU
Type of flag associated with republicanism	TRICOLOUR
Waterside ornamental plant with very large leaves	GUNNERA
Waves running directly against a ship’s course	head sea
Winnie-the-Pooh character whose favourite food is thistles	EEYORE
____, tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838 is a painting by Turner	The Fighting Temeraire