The Times - Specialist - August 18 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 175
Clues	Answers
“Senior” rather than “old”, or “in an interesting condition” meaning “pregnant”	EUPHEMISM
A European head of government who, like Margaret Thatcher, studied and worked in chemistry	Angela Merkel
A speck of soot	SMUT
A steep-sided hill smaller than the similar mesa	BUTTE
A symbol of communism; a former parcels service introduced by British Rail in 1963	red star
Alan Paton’s novel about South Africa, written just before the introduction of apartheid	Cry The Beloved Country
An American name for a conscript	DRAFTEE
Another word for appendix, in its literary meaning	ADDENDUM
Author whose short stories in The Bloody Chamber were based on fairy tales	Angela Carter
Cardinal who succeeded Richelieu as chief minister to Louis XIII	Jules Mazarin
Choose to participate	opt in
Christmas pudding is a form of ____	plum duff
Expression of assent in radio communications	WILCO
Former IOC president who started the curious tradition of calling practically every Olympics the “best ever”	Juan Antonio Samaranch
Grape variety traditionally used in wines from Burgundy	Pinot Noir
Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel was Duane ____’s debut album	EDDY
Illustrator of many books, especially for children, including Stig of the Dump	Edward Ardizzone
In the name of a tourist destination, “blue”	AZUR
Informal name for Maniola jurtina, a common British butterfly	meadow brown
Informally, a Latin American dance in ballroom contests	cha-cha
Informally, a medical procedure which may be carried out during a pregnancy	AMNIO
Italian composer Ruggero ____ wrote the opera Pagliacci	LEONCAVALLO
Latin phrase meaning “which was to be shown”, traditionally abbreviated at the end of a mathematical proof	quod erat demonstrandum
Madrid’s Museo del ____ was originally intended to house natural history exhibits	PRADO
Main muscle used by mammals when chewing	MASSETER
Measure of inflation in the UK, first calculated in 1947	RPI
Medicinal herb traditionally used to treat insomnia	VALERIAN
More modern than others	ahead of the curve
Nautical phenomenon often found where glacial run-off flows into a fjord, slowing down ships using propellers	Dead water
One of the solar system’s gas giants	Jovian planet
One ____ of carbon is buckminsterfullerene	ALLOTROPE
Roman military commander who rose to political prominence after defeating the revolt led by Spartacus	Marcus Licinius Crassus
Small handmade wooden household objects	TREEN
Sporting contestant whose discipline may be Alpine or Nordic	SKIER
Symbol seen on the national flags of Morocco and Ethiopia	PENTAGRAM
The architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid	I M Pei
The best thing to do with difficult questions?	not answer
The Great ____ in Kew Gardens dominates the local skyline	PAGODA
The Last Judgment, or a medieval church painting of it	DOOM
The most popular boules game played in France	PETANQUE
The opening number of the 1975 musical Chicago	All That Jazz
To commemorate its last battle as a military unit at Glenshiel in 1719, Clan Munro held an international ____ last weekend	GATHERING
Trademark for dimenhydrinate, an important drug for some travellers	DRAMAMINE
When New Romney’s harbour silted up, it was replaced as a Cinque port by ____	RYE
Wood commonly used to make fingerboards for violins	EBONY
Worcestershire town with Britain’s only needle museum	REDDITCH
____ and Kashmir is India’s northernmost state	JAMMU