The Times - Specialist - October 13 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 183
Clues	Answers
A formal expression of praise	ENCOMIUM
A spiral lock of hair plastered to the forehead	kiss-curl
Actress who starred in the 1979 Roman Polanski film Tess	Nastassja Kinski
American pay TV service launched in 1972	HBO
Ancient Egyptian city around 12 miles south of Giza	MEMPHIS
Avian adversary of the cartoon cat Sylvester	Tweetie Pie
Body of water lying between Yemen and Somalia	Gulf of Aden
Bolton Wanderers footballer (and later manager) who played for England 33 times in the 1950s, scoring 30 goals	Nat Lofthouse
British swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games	Sharron Davies
By population, Japan’s second largest city	YOKOHAMA
Chicago airport, formerly Orchard Field, which explains its IATA code ORD	O'Hare
Common nickname for Prokofiev’s Symphony No 1	CLASSICAL
David Trimble led the ____ Party, 1995-2005	Ulster Unionist
Easy	a cinch
Educated 12th/13th-century entertainers who produced poetry like Carmina Burana, combining bawdiness and clerical satire	goliards
Eponymous pet rat of Danny Garrison in a 1972 film, its theme sung by Michael Jackson	BEN
Five-act drama by Victorien Sardou, adapted for opera by Puccini	La Tosca
Greek meatballs made with herbs and onions	KEFTEDES
Host of Mock the Week	Dara O Briain
In 1997 ____ became the youngest Wimbledon singles champion since Lottie Dodd in 1887	Martina Hingis
Inflammation of the pigmented layer of the eye	UVEITIS
Island whose capital is Antananarivo	MADAGASCAR
Italian dish which translates as “it leaps into the mouth”	SALTIMBOCCA
Mirage named after a character of Arthurian legend	Fata Morgana
Not purged of sin	uncleansed
Of a tide, having the least difference between high and low water	NEAP
Of an assembly, adjourned without a resumption date	sine die
Of speech, delivered quietly	sotto voce
Oil of vitriol	sulphuric acid
One training to become a church minister	ORDINAND
One who studies mites and ticks	acarologist
Payment of money	disbursal
Precise and intricate patterns of interlaced lines, often used on bank notes and passports	GUILLOCHE
Priest featured in stories by the humorist Giovannino Guareschi	Don Camillo
Privates Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris in short stories by Rudyard Kipling	Soldiers Three
Rugby Union club now based at Allianz Park in Hendon	SARACENS
Sling attached to a masthead, allowing a sailor to balance a small boat by leaning far over the windward side	TRAPEZE
Some historical ____ were those of Waitangi, Versailles and Brest-Litovsk	TREATIES
The “Jondrette Girl” of Les Miserables	EPONINE
The first Sherlock Holmes novel	A Study in Scarlet
The outer peel of citrus fruit	ZEST
To place extra pages between those of a book	INTERLEAVE
Tony ____ was the original drummer for The Shadows	meehan
Traditional small boat propelled by sail and/or oars, still in common use on the Nile	FELUCCA
What an inspector does at the Brumley home of the Birlings, in a famous play	CALLS
Young minds without innate ideas, according to John Locke	tabulae rasae
Younger sister of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire	Stella Kowalski
____ Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a 1798 collection by Wordsworth and Coleridge	LYRICAL