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The Times - Specialist - May 12 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 161
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“____ differ from ordinary mortals by their ability to admire loquacious and complicated delusions” (Anatole France)SCIENTISTS
“____ or Dutch admiral” is one of the 16 species listed under “pea” in Dr Johnson’s dictionaryMARROWFAT
1922 silent film (also called Possession) based on the novel by Anthony Hopephroso
2013 Man Booker prize winner with The LuminariesEleanor Catton
A collection of writings in honour of a scholarfestschrift
A lower-class republican (literally “without breeches”) in revolutionary Francesans-culotte
A meeting hall of the Salvation ArmyCITADEL
A subpoena ____ orders the recipient to produce documentary evidence in courtduces tecum
A type of tapering marine buoy, marking the starboard side of a channel into a harbourNUN
Actor mentioned in the Bangles hit Manic MondayRudolph Valentino
Actress who won an Oscar for her role in Prizzi’s HonorAnjelica Huston
African country whose de jure capital is DodomaTANZANIA
An early species of mankindHomo erectus
Archaic word for “dark brown”, used in ob____ate, to make unclearfusc
BehavedACTED
British sitcom starring Yootha Joyce and Brian MurphyGeorge and Mildred
Dancing in the ____ was Toploader’s biggest hitMOONLIGHT
Deputy leader of the Labour Party under Gordon Brown and Ed MilibandHarriet Harman
Establishments serving Italian food in a casual atmospheretrattorias
Fender guitar produced continuously since 1950TELECASTER
French director of films including Hiroshima mon amour and Stavisky…Alain Resnais
Game show whose presenters included David Vine, Eddie Waring, and Frank BrunoIts a Knockout
German-born philosopher who introduced the concept of the “banality of evil”Hannah Arendt
In darts, a score of 20, double 20, and treble 20SHANGHAI
Indian hemptrue dagga
Informally, the motor racing circuit in Stavelot, BelgiumSPA
Largest city in France’s Haute-Savoie departmentANNECY
Latin phrase used to describe deduction of causes from observed effectsa posteriori
Maize, to a South AfricanMEALIE
Midfielder who made 115 appearances for Liverpool 2014-2018 and now plays for JuventusEmre Can
Musical direction which originally meant “at ease”ADAGIO
New Hampshire is known as the ____Granite State
Nickname of the first female tennis player to win all four Grand Slam titles in one calendar yearLittle Mo
Parisian fashion house owned by Puig since 1998Nina Ricci
Pseudonym under which Karen Blixen wrote her first novel Seven Gothic TalesIsak Dinesen
Tennessee city immortalised in a 1941 song by Glenn Miller and his OrchestraCHATTANOOGA
The anterior narisNOSTRIL
The avifauna of a regionORNIS
The first line of the Jam’s The ____ is “Sup up your beer and collect your fags”Eton Rifles
The Great Orme overlooks this Welsh seaside resortLLANDUDNO
The Lord of the RingsSAURON
The Memorial to the Missing in YpresMenin Gate
The needle of a record playerSTYLUS
The world’s most remote inhabited archipelagoTristan da Cunha
The youngest member of England’s 1966 World Cup winning teamAlan Ball
The ____ River connects lakes Erie and OntarioNIAGARA
Written by Otis Blackwell, a 1957 hit for Elvis PresleyAll Shook Up
____ Homo (behold the man) is a depiction of Christ wearing the crown of thornsECCE

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