The Times - Specialist - May 5 2019 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 160
Clues	Answers
“What is hope? Nothing but paint on the face of ____” (Byron)	EXISTENCE
1999 Richard Curtis film starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant	Notting Hill
43A would have danced with Chris ____ if he had won his 1976 Wimbledon final	EVERT
A “cabbage” butterfly or a major pig breed	Large White
A 64ft “Contra Trombone” in Sydney Town Hall is one of the world’s longest ____s	Organ pipe
A logical basis for a course of action	RATIONALE
A resident of Baghdad	IRAQI
A short-sighted person	MYOPE
A tiny amount of something like doubt or evidence	SCINTILLA
Art retailer, noted for iconic posters of the 1970s and 1980s	ATHENA
Basil ___, the Cape Coloured cricketer who played for Worcestershire, and England from 1966 to 1972	DOliviera
Basil ____ won the 1950 design competition for the new Coventry Cathedral	SPENCE
Citadel built after the 1745 Jacobite rising, guarding the sea approaches to Inverness	Fort George
Edible, yellow, funnel-shaped mushrooms	CHANTERELLES
European chief negotiator for Britain’s exit from the EU	Michel Barnier
French city famed for enamelware, and later, porcelain	LIMOGES
Inflatable plastic or rubber mattresses	lilos
Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots	SNAKEWEED
Informally, an attraction at the southern end of the A23	Brighton Pier
John Aubrey’s collection of short biographies about contemporaries such as Hobbes and Milton	Brief Lives
Large duck of the merganser genus	GOOSANDER
Large sandpiper with a slightly upturned bill	GREENSHANK
London’s ____ has a zoo, theatre, lake and bandstand	Regents Park
Musical instrument, often used to convey a pastoral mood	Cor anglais
Number of yards in a chain	twenty-two
One concerned with the classification of diseases	nosologist
One who believes that natural objects have desires and intentions	ANIMIST
Part of a sail that may be rolled up to reduce its area	REEF
Plant of the Veronica genus, with small blue or pinkish white flowers	SPEEDWELL
Polish composer whose Venetian Games is his most experimental piece, using “aleatory counterpoint”	LUTOSLAWSKI
Soap in which early characters were Helen Daniels, Des Clarke and Nell Mangel	NEIGHBOURS
Strict secretiveness within a community	Wall of silence
The 17th century in French art and literature	Grand Siecle
The Duke of Medina Sidonia commanded ____ from his flagship, the Sao Martinho	The Armada
The fourth 007 film starring Sean Connery	THUNDERBALL
The Holy Grail is said to have been hidden in the Chalice Well at the foot of this Somerset hill	Glastonbury Tor
The last steam engine built by British Railways	Evening Star
The successor to Enda Kenny as taoiseach, in June 2017	Leo Varadkar
The water boa	ANACONDA
The ____ Sea is bounded by mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica	tyrrhenian
Translation of the second word of Caesar’s attributed comment “Veni, vidi, vici”	I saw
Using very modern technology	Space-age
Variety of peach with a smooth skin	NECTARINE
Winner of the 1972 US Open and 1973 French Open	Ilie Nastase
____ and Pembroke are the only two Oxford University colleges on squares of the same name	ORIEL
____ directed the films Vera Drake and Mr Turner	Mike Leigh
____ Wheel, the sister organisation of Rotary International	INNER
____’s first role with Hammer Film Productions was in The Curse of Frankenstein	Christopher Lee