The Times - Specialist - May 19 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 162
Clues	Answers
“Fools are my ____, let satire be my song” (Byron)	THEME
“War should never be entered upon until every ____ of peace has failed” (US president William McKinley)	AGENCY
2006 film starring Jason Statham as Chev Chelios	CRANK
Accessory mounting on a camera	SHOE
Actors employed to play roles in the absence of principals	UNDERSTUDIES
Actress for whom George Bernard Shaw wrote the title role in Saint Joan	Sybil Thorndike
Alternative to Spar as a “symbol group” supplying convenience shops in the British Isles	MACE
American TV host who married Portia de Rossi in 2008	Ellen DeGeneres
Bespectacled character in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	DOC
Causing cold or freezing	frigorific
City served by Indira Gandhi International Airport	DELHI
Comedian often seen with a flying helmet and goggles	Roy Chubby Brown
Create a word like “chnage” or “Cathoilic”	MISTYPE
Daniel ____ is Nicaragua’s current president	ORTEGA
Edward Lear nonsense poem inspired by the ruler of a mountainous area in present-day Pakistan	The Akond of Swat
Greek muse often depicted holding a musical instrument	ERATO
Green anthropomorphic dinosaur in Nintendo video games	YOSHI
In Dostoevsky’s The Devils, the novelist Karmazinov is a caricature of Ivan ____	TURGENEV
In the shape of a nail or claw	unguiform
Irish jockey who in 1998 became the youngest to win a classic race	Jamie Spencer
Japanese tennis player currently ranked world No 1	Naomi Osaka
King of Judah, succeeded by Jehoshaphat	ASA
Lancashire town at the eastern end of the M65	colne
Level of proficiency in Japanese martial arts	DAN
Lincolnshire village; stage name of stand-up comedian and musician James Rogers	Boothby Graffoe
Lord Sepulchrave, Steerpike and Barquentine appear in this fantasy fiction series	GORMENGHAST
Mass of lymphoid tissue at either side of the back of the throat	palatine tonsil
Membrane enveloping the lungs	PLEURA
Of protesters, contained in an enclosed area	kettled
Real name of 3 Down and location of 4 Down	Royston Vasey
Red (occasionally white) wine of northern Spain	RIOJA
Serbia’s capital	BELGRADE
Series of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper	Leatherstocking Tales
Settlers in southern Britain in the late 4th century	JUTES
Small harpsichord with obliquely set strings	SPINET
South African opener, the only batsman to carry his bat in two test matches in the same calendar year	Dean Elgar
Statesman imprisoned by Charles I for advocating parliamentary rights	Sir John Eliot
The Battle of Laing’s ____ took place in the first Boer war	NEK
The best-selling type of salad dressing in the US since 1992	RANCH
The first contestant to leave the 2018 series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!	Noel Edmonds
The second section of this Alexander Pope poem begins “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan”	An Essay On Man
The ____ of Cats — a difficult matter according to a TS Eliot poem	NAMING
The ____ virus causes a fever, endemic in west Africa	LASSA
To make Saxon blue dye, dissolve ____ in concentrated sulphuric acid	INDIGO
Tradename for hydrocarbon formerly used in refrigeration	FREON
TV series featuring the members of a comedy troupe of the same name, formed in 1995	The League Of Gentlemen
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32, and co-founder of an institute which is now part of a Pittsburgh university	Andrew Mellon
____ Blofeld, an arch-enemy of James Bond	ERNST