The Times - Specialist - July 14 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 170
Clues	Answers
“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of ____s” (Steven Wright)	WIDTH
“History begins in novel and ends in ____” (Thomas Macaulay)	ESSAY
1952 children’s novel by EB White, featuring a pig called Wilbur	Charlotte's Web
2010 David Greig play based on events after the defeat of Macbeth	DUNSINANE
A legal contradiction	ANTINOMY
A passage of Latin-based text used to demonstrate layout appearance	Lorem Ipsum
A powerful embrace, possibly as a wrestling hold	bear hug
Actress widely regarded as the first “Bond girl”	Ursula Andress
Agreement from which Albania withdrew in 1968, after the invasion of Czechoslovakia	Warsaw Pact
American actress born Virginia McMath	Ginger Rogers
American band who had UK hits including Bring Me to Life and My Immortal	EVANESCENCE
An open horse-drawn carriage, named after a disastrous charioteer of Greek myth	PHAETON
Any element of the lanthanide series	rare earth
British athlete who won 400m hurdles gold at the 1992 Olympics	Sally Gunnell
Chancellor of Germany 1982-98	Helmut Kohl
Chemical compound first synthesised by Faraday in 1834	ETHANE
City of Morocco which was an English colony, 1661-84 (alternative spelling)	TANGIERS
Comedian seen on Mock the Week from series 3 to 14	Andy Parsons
County town once called Colonia Glevum Nervensis	GLOUCESTER
First two words of the song Chattanooga Choo Choo	pardon me
Founder of the first Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great
German measles	RUBELLA
Greek playwright, a general in the 440BC siege of Samos	SOPHOCLES
HM Prison Manchester	STRANGEWAYS
Imaginary source of fear	BUGABOO
In a press release on June 7, the Financial Conduct Authority announced reforms to “fix a dysfunctional ____ market”	OVERDRAFT
In Hawaii, a roofed patio often used as a living room	LANAI
In The Archers, the accent of Ruth Archer	GEORDIE
In the ____; eventually	long run
Liberian president who resigned in 2003	Charles Taylor
Name for a place of worship, from Greek for “assembly”	SYNAGOGUE
Nocturnal carnivore noted for its “laugh”	HYENA
Novel which opens with “A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys”	brave new world
Nut from a tree of the same genus as cashew	PISTACHIO
Region considered to include parts of six Balkan countries	MACEDONIA
River which rises in North Yorkshire and flows through Clitheroe and Preston to the Irish Sea	RIBBLE
Skills required for wilderness survival	BUSHCRAFT
Tennis competition between UK and American women, last held in 1989	Wightman Cup
The author of Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The last completed novel of George Eliot	daniel deronda
The Oxford martyrs were Nicholas Ridley, Thomas Cranmer and ____	Hugh Latimer
The snow leopard, a name formerly used for other members of the cat family	OUNCE
The stopping of legal action by a judge, or voluntary withdrawal by the plaintiff	NONSUIT
The ____ Massacre took place in Manchester in 1819	PETERLOO
Title of Allen Bathurst, Conservative MP for Southampton 1922-29	Lord Apsley
To enrich with an ability or quality	ENDOW
Women’s Olympic track and field event last held in 1980	PENTATHLON
____ Dirtbag, a 2000 single by Wheatus	TEENAGE