The Times - Specialist - September 15 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 179
Clues	Answers
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious" (Peter ____)	USTINOV
A combination of three letters representing one sound	TRIGRAPH
A concertina or accordion	squeeze box
A Lancashire ____ has a fixed blade with no pivot, and a handle wrapped in string	PEELER
Actor who played scheming private detective Pat Healy in There’s Something About Mary	Matt Dillon
Addis Ababa is the capital of ____	ETHIOPIA
Author of The Color Purple	Alice Walker
BBC Two sitcom starring Steve Coogan as a former roadie	saxondale
Boss, colloquially	GUV
Brahma, Shiva, and ___ form the Trimurti of Hinduism	VISHNU
British rock band named after a Vulcan elder in Star Trek	T'Pau
Chelsea head coach who scored 147 goals for them as a player	Frank Lampard
Co-star of Jan Francis in the sitcom Just Good Friends	Paul Nicholas
Comedy actor who played Holly in Red Dwarf	Norman Lovett
Comedy actress who played Holly in Red Dwarf	Hattie Hayridge
Courtier sent by Claudius to invite Hamlet to duel with Laertes	OSRIC
David Balfour is the narrator of this novel by Robert Louis Stevenson	KIDNAPPED
De ____ is an antonym of "austere"	LUXE
First novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson	Along Came A Spider
Former surname of Mavis Wilton in Coronation Street	RILEY
General knowledge quiz show originally hosted by William G Stewart	Fifteen to One
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ____, German philosopher noted for his work on idealism	HEGEL
Greek city in which Alexander the Great prepared to invade Asia	AMPHIPOLIS
Greek god of darkness	EREBUS
Green laver, a marine plant with edible fronds	sea lettuce
Horizontal passage leading into a mine	ADIT
Informally, identification worn on a soldier’s neck	dog tag
Layer of material placed as a seal between surfaces in an engine	GASKET
Legal decision often made by a mufti	FATWA
Lightning Seeds single of 1994, the first from the album Jollification	Lucky You
Located on Washington state’s Columbia River, the USA’s largest power station by installed capacity	Grand Coulee Dam
Marsh plant with small yellow flowers	bog asphodel
Mimed playing of a particular musical instrument	air guitar
Month shared by the zodiac signs Virgo and Libra	SEPTEMBER
North London river with the same name as a tributary of the Rhine	MOSELLE
Of a nucleic acid in biochemistry, having two partly mismatched strands from different parent molecules	heteroduplex
Serbian footballer who, as manager, took both Watford and Fulham to the Premier League	Slavisa Jokanovic
Sitcom starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer	as time goes by
The beginning of something, or a violent attack	ONSET
The first bowler to take a hat-trick in Twenty20 International cricket	Brett Lee
The Hungarian "wine of kings, king of wines"	TOKAY
The largest city of western Ukraine	LVIV
The Marvel Comics alter ego of Steve Rogers	Captain America
The physical process of ageing	SENESCENCE
The Spanish equivalent of William	GUILLERMO
The work of editing and dubbing a film after shooting	post-production
Those who believe in God as one person rather than a Trinity	UNITARIANS
To chew	MASTICATE
To impose a discretionary fine	AMERCE
____, Larry and Curly were the Three Stooges	MOE