The Times - Specialist - May 26 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 163 May 26 2019  

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 163
Clues	Answers
“That’s me darling. ____ places, ____ love affairs” (Sally Bowles, in the 1972 Cabaret film)	UNUSUAL
“____, could, would — they are contemptible auxiliaries” (George Eliot)	MIGHT
1961 film which ends with a search for a cat	Breakfast At Tiffany's
1990 teen musical romantic comedy film starring Johnny Depp as the eponymous character	Cry-Baby
A participant in certain online auctions	ebayer
According to an Office for Budget Responsibility forecast, Britain’s state ____ could reach 70 by the mid-2060s	pensionable age
An electron or positron emitted in radioactive decay	beta particle
An Englishman after whom a US state capital is named	Sir Walter Raleigh
Asian pear variety which is not “pear-shaped”	NASHI
Baked dessert containing caramelised fruit	tarte Tatin
Bicycle ____ Man was a parody superhero in a Monty Python sketch	REPAIR
Birmingham’s ____ building appears in a Windows 7 desktop background	SELFRIDGES
British commander at the battle of Omdurman, who later appeared on a First World War recruitment poster	General Kitchener
Disease also known as hog cholera	swine fever
English city name translating another Down answer	NEWCASTLE
Euphemistic description of bad sporting performance	off-day
Fantastical creature functioning as a long waterspout	GARGOYLE
Frame marking one square metre areas in plant research	QUADRAT
Gitega has recently replaced Bujumbura as the capital of ____	BURUNDI
Historic Methodist church in London’s City Road	Wesley's Chapel
Hornless cattle breed, originally from northeast Scotland	aberdeen angus
In 1979, Pietro ____ set a 200m world record in Mexico City, which is still the European record	mennea
In astronomy, a point on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator	EQUINOX
In eastern India, the Ganges splits into the ____ and Hooghly	PADMA
In Greek myth, the personification of the evening star	HESPERUS
In ice skating, a toe jump taking off from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot	FLIP
In Scotland, a reel, jig or strathspey	country dance
Indonesian ____ was added to Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009	BATIK
Joint for which the Latin is cubitum	ELBOW
Light brown type of sugar, originally from Guyana	DEMERARA
List of passengers and cargo on a plane or ship	MANIFEST
Long gun of the 15th century	ARQUEBUS
Northernmost point on Great Britain’s mainland	Dunnet Head
People fleeing to escape prosecution or punishment	ABSCONDERS
Philosopher, one of very few Germans commemorated in Kaliningrad, formerly Konigsberg	KANT
Siberian city where Dostoyevsky was imprisoned	OMSK
Terence Rattigan play of 1976, surprisingly for one actor	DUOLOGUE
The Bayer pharmaceutical company is based in this city in North Rhine-Westphalia	LEVERKUSEN
The largest square in Paris	Place de la Concorde
The only winner of three Olympic 100m freestyle golds	Dawn Fraser
The river ____ flows through Carlisle to the Solway Firth	EDEN
The ____ coast is a tourist destination on the gulf of Salerno	AMALFI
The ____ of Greece were 6th-century BC philosophers and politicians renowned for wisdom	Seven Sages
Tony ____ won one grand slam title in singles and thirteen in doubles, twelve with John Newcombe	ROCHE
Town, lake and canton in French-speaking Switzerland	NEUCHATEL
Version of “pale”, normally describing faces	ASHEN
Wine, windows and coal were all once ____ in Britain	TAXED
Yeast is used to ____ dough	AERATE
____ engineering adds or removes DNA	GENETIC
____ set a new record for a single-handed circumnavigation of the world in 2005	Ellen MacArthur