The Times - Specialist - September 1 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 177
Clues	Answers
“Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and ____” (George RR Martin)	TOFU
“Have done with this ____ of impertinence” (Walpole, The Castle of Otranto)	RHAPSODY
“My name means the shape I am”, ____ tells Alice	Humpty Dumpty
“Wasn’t it all okay? Till she showed here. ____, describing me as an ape” (A Streetcar Named Desire)	hoity-toity
2012 global hit single which followed Korea and was followed by Gentleman	Gangnam Style
A container, and the last part of a Silly Party candidate’s name in Monty Python’s Election Night Special	biscuit barrel
A male born between Surrey and the River Medway	Kentish man
A name for various decapod crustaceans	SHRIMP
Actor who played the eponymous character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off	Matthew Broderick
Biblical site of a battle just before the Day of Judgment	ARMAGEDDON
Children’s author who wrote as Dr Seuss	Theodor Geisel
Colloquially, a sensationalist tabloid newspaper	red-top
Comedy panel game featuring Matt Lucas as scorekeeper George Dawes	Shooting Stars
Crown land	royal demesne
Duck which is sometimes called the white merganser	SMEW
English athlete, first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile	Diane Leather
English Civil War battle near a Northamptonshire village	NASEBY
Ffordd Pen Llech in ____ has recently been recognised as the world’s steepest residential street	HARLECH
Fictional land created by Samuel Butler	EREWHON
Form of theatre exemplified by Donizetti’s Don Pasquale	comic opera
Former site of the second Eleanor cross on the route from Lincoln to London	GRANTHAM
Greek poet who lived around 700BC and wrote Theogony, describing origins of the gods	HESIOD
In Malaysia, a whisky and soda on the rocks	STENGAH
In the USA, to study as a subsidiary subject	minor in
Informally, someone from Yorkshire	TYKE
Informally, ____ glasses are those with thick lenses	Coke-bottle
Mediterranean port which is France’s main naval base	TOULON
MSS stands for ____	MANUSCRIPTS
Northumberland castle, about 5 miles southeast of Lindisfarne	BAMBURGH
One of the blue creatures in the Yellow Submarine film	MEANIE
One ____ is approximately 0.000039 inches	MICROMETRE
Ronnie ____ was a member of the “Anfield Boot Room”, and was Liverpool’s caretaker manager twice in the early 1990s	MORAN
Russian city called Molotov from 1940 to 1957	PERM
Second order Franciscan nun, also called a Poor Clare	MINORESS
Standup comedian married to 36A	Gary Delaney
Standup comedian married to 8D	Sarah Millican
Sweet white wine from this commune in France can be sold under its own name or as Sauternes	BARSAC
That which is made by a fletcher	ARROW
The battle of Omdurman was a decisive defeat for the ____ forces in 19th-century Sudan	mahdist
The heroine of Northanger Abbey	Catherine Morland
The pollen-producing part of a stamen	ANTHER
This country’s national anthem is called Hatikvah	ISRAEL
To exhort or advocate	RECOMMEND
Type of nut also called Queensland nut	MACADAMIA
UK government agency which investigates industrial accidents	HSE
With Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Denis ____ edited the Encyclopédie	DIDEROT
____ Sunset, released in 1989, was one of Van Morrison’s most successful albums	AVALON
____, bishop of Bayeux, was a half-brother of William I	ODO