The Times - Specialist - September 22 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 180
Clues	Answers
1961 novel by 31D made into a 1996 film starring Paul Terry	James And The Giant Peach
1964 western starring Audie Murphy as captain Jeff Stanton	Apache Rifles
1976 comedy movie starring Burt Reynolds as an ex-con living in the Okefenokee Swamp on the borders of Florida and Georgia	GATOR
1980s soap opera launched as a companion to Coronation Street	Albion Market
A German “miss”	FRAULEIN
A pastoral poem	BUCOLIC
Actress who became a long-time mistress of Charles II	Nell Gwyn
Archaic word meaning “in addition” or “to boot”	WITHAL
Author of Tales of the Unexpected	Roald Dahl
Author of the first Surrealist Manifesto in 1924	Andre Breton
Captain of the West Indies test side 2007-2010	Chris Gayle
Circle dances; simple songs with refrains	ROUNDELAYS
Creator of Little Lord Fauntleroy	Frances Hodgson Burnett
Critically endangered amphibian species whose only natural habitat is Mexico City’s Lake Xochimilco	AXOLOTL
Crustacean which climbs palm trees to eat coconuts	robber crab
Denis ____ presented It’ll be Alright on the Night	Norden
Description of the gospels other than John	SYNOPTIC
Dutch footballer who managed Burton Albion, Queens Park Rangers, and Northampton Town	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Edvard Munch painting called, in his language, Skrik	The Scream
Friends character played by Matt LeBlanc	Joey Tribbiani
German mercenary soldier of the 16th century	landsknecht
Grimsby Town FC are “The ____”	MARINERS
In Greek myth, Aphrodite’s mortal lover	ADONIS
Island on which Joe Rosenthal’s iconic flag-raising photograph was taken	Iwo Jima
Jan ____ has a very large cloud named after him	OORT
Jodrell Bank Observatory’s main telescope is named after ____	Bernard Lovell
Mob rule	OCHLOCRACY
Nationality after which red and white pigments are named	CHINESE
North American term for a lively party; in plural form, a font consisting of symbols	WINGDING
On Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours, the first song written by Christine McVie	Don't Stop
Open flan with savoury filling	QUICHE
Originally, “to thrash”, now “to scold”	LAMBAST
Refusal to attend Church of England services when it was required by law	RECUSANCY
Sharpen, especially by rubbing on stone	WHET
State capital of Tasmania	HOBART
Surname of Norwegian rally driving brothers Petter and Henning	solberg
That which scores four or five points in rugby	TRY
The flightless Australian bird Dromaius novaehollandiae	EMU
The most northwesterly point of mainland Britain	Cape Wrath
The religious texts of Zoroastrianism	AVESTA
The sort of bodies associated with a Channel 4 reality TV show	EMBARRASSING
The United Principalities of ____ and Wallachia became Romania in 1866	MOLDAVIA
Third single from REM’s final studio album Collapse Into Now	uberlin
Unsophisticated	ARTLESS
Word for word (Medieval Latin)	VERBATIM
____ gained attention as Seth Brundle in The Fly	Jeff Goldblum
____ John ____ is a clothing brand sold exclusively by Debenhams	rocha