The Times - Specialist - October 27 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 185
Clues	Answers
"In all my associations with hunters, travellers and naturalists, I have never yet been able to find one who would defend the ____" (Theodore Roosevelt)	HYENA
"Love truth, but pardon ____" (Voltaire)	ERROR
"The Russians are liars — you can’t trust them" (Harry S Truman, talking about the 1945 ____ conference)	POTSDAM
"The ____" is a local informal name for the Witwatersrand scarp	REEF
1954 epic film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa	Seven Samurai
A kind of profanity deleted in Watergate tape transcripts	EXPLETIVE
A lanthanide, one of four elements all named after the same mining village in Sweden	ERBIUM
A rounded convex architectural moulding	OVOLO
A seemingly bottomless chasm	ABYSS
Abbreviated, a weapon such as the Peacekeeper	ICBM
American actress; wife of Shakespeare	Anne Hathaway
An area of flat unforested grassland	STEPPE
As a musical instruction, gradually slowing and becoming quieter	CALANDO
Australian female tennis player, currently the world No 1	Ashleigh Barty
Baseball catcher and manager who said "If you come to a fork in the road, take it"	Yogi Berra
Birthmarks or moles	NAEVI
Capital of Cambodia	Phnom Penh
Central character of The Merchant of Venice	PORTIA
Cheshire town which is popular with train-spotters	CREWE
Coconut husk fibre	COIR
Composer of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)	Gustav Mahler
Computer which beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess in 1996	Deep Blue
Controversial 1959 William S Burroughs novel	Naked Lunch
Flat grey sheet of cloud	STRATUS
French cheese similar to Gruyère	COMTE
Genus to which holly belongs	ILEX
Horace: "Dolly Levi, you are a damned ____ woman" Dolly: "Why Horace Vandergelder, that is the nicest thing you have ever said to me" (Hello, Dolly!)	EXASPERATING
Irish author whose debut novel was The Country Girls	Edna O'Brien
Italian flatbread topped with herbs and salt	FOCACCIA
Jewish woman who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus	Mary Magdalene
King Lear character with an illegitimate son, Edmund	Earl of Gloucester
Le Baiser, an Auguste Rodin sculpture of 1882	The Kiss
Lewd bespectacled comic creation of Les Dawson	Cosmo Smallpiece
Maori term for someone of European descent	pakeha
Marks in the same places as Christ’s crucifixion wounds	STIGMATA
Medieval Latin hymn referenced in many works of classical music	Dies Irae
Mercury, to alchemists	AZOTH
Mozart opera about a king of Crete	IDOMENEO
Musical composition used as practice material, or to display virtuosity	ETUDE
Plant known as Adam’s needle	YUCCA
Plant of the daisy family’s "flea-bane" genus	ERIGERON
Region at the eastern end of the mainland in ancient Greece	ATTICA
Sinew	TENDON
Spooks character, an MI5 intelligence analyst, played by Nicola Walker	Ruth Evershed
Sumo wrestler	Rikishi
Swiss town in Valais, famed as a ski resort	ZERMATT
Tangled thickets of shrubs in the southwestern USA	CHAPARRAL
The author of Cranford	Elizabeth Gaskell
The ____, Ealing comedy named after a Battersea street	Lavender Hill Mob
Title of singles by Aretha Franklin, Nik Kershaw, Split Enz, and Debbie Gibson	One Step Ahead