The Times - Specialist - September 8 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 178
Clues	Answers
A constant and inescapable handicap; a rarity in golf	ALBATROSS
A group with exclusive privileges, or perceived as socially distinct	CASTE
Actor with eight Oscar acting nominations but no win	Peter O'Toole
Antiques expert who made his name in Going for a Song	Arthur Negus
Austrian composer whose 1935 violin concerto is dedicated to Manon, daughter of Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius	Alban Berg
Breed of domestic fowl developed in New England	rhode island red
British poet Benjamin Zephaniah is a prominent member of this religious movement with its roots in Jamaica	RASTAFARIAN
Capital city of France’s Grand Est region	STRASBOURG
Charles ____, English mathematician whose uncompleted Analytical Engine anticipated the electronic computer	BABBAGE
Chihuahua neighbour’s nickname	Lone Star State
Computing language mainly used to enhance web pages	JAVASCRIPT
Daniel Defoe described this London suburb as rapidly growing “from a little country village, to a city”	HAMPSTEAD
Detective who made his debut in Cover Her Face in 1962	Adam Dalgliesh
Dock of the Bay became ____’s first US number one hit the year after his death in a plane crash	Otis Redding
Film studio and theme park, marketed as the “Entertainment Capital of LA”	UNIVERSAL
German telegraph pioneer; unit of electrical conductance	SIEMENS
Home whose residents may be golden or bald	EYRIE
In 2017 Kirsty Allsopp spoke of the decline of this furniture item, calling fewer family meals together a “real loss”	Dinner table
In Hamlet, Ophelia’s brother	LAERTES
Italian bread, often served grilled with a variety of fillings	PANINI
Its chief passenger ports include Tallinn, Turku, and Rostock	Baltic Sea
Jane’s sister in E Nesbit’s Five Children and It	ANTHEA
Latin “will-o’-the-wisp”, or a dangerously elusive ideal	Ignis fatuus
Matthew Syed book on sporting performance, subtitled “The myth of talent and the power of practice'	BOUNCE
McCaig’s Tower overlooks this Scottish ferry port	OBAN
Members of a troop of up to 6,000 Roman army soldiers	LEGIONARIES
Mother of the Duke of Kent	Princess Marina
Ornamental centrepiece for a dining table	EPERGNE
Plant with yellow rayed flowers used for salads or wine	DANDELION
Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone	Eliot Ness
Radio 4 comic sports presenter created for On the Hour in 1991, and later a presenter on Norwich local radio	Alan Partridge
Ramsay Macdonald’s PPS in the 1922 parliament, who later became deputy PM in Churchill’s war cabinet	Clement Attlee
Residents of Salalah, Seeb or Sohar, for instance	OMANIS
Series of novels about a central character or family	Roman-fleuve
State capital of Madhya Pradesh and location of the world’s worst industrial disaster, in 1984	BHOPAL
Straight man in a double act whose films include Buck Privates and Lost in a Harem	Bud Abbott
The 1914 legislation which imposed wartime restrictions, including an afternoon break in pub opening hours	DORA
The author who created 1A	P D James
The Beatles were pelted with ____ on their 1964 US tour, more painfully than by UK fans with similarly-named sweets	jelly beans
The justification for existence	Raison d'etre
The member of the Bee Gees who married Lulu	Maurice Gibb
The S of Ronald Reagan’s SDI, also called “Star Wars”	STRATEGIC
The US-based ____ Association is the world’s largest registry of pedigree felines	Cat Fanciers
Thin slices of meat, served with vegetables in pitta bread	Doner kebab
Trojan hero, son of Aphrodite and Anchises	AENEAS
Type of onion, with clusters of bulbs and a mild flavour	SHALLOT
What’s up with a fried egg not turned during cooking?	sunny side
____’s 1996 Japanese Grand Prix victory secured his first drivers’ championship win in his last race for Williams	Damon Hill