The Times - Specialist - November 10 2019 crossword answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 187
Clues	Answers
“Are you the manager?” “I am the ____, madam” (Fawlty Towers)	OWNER
“More ____ discoveries are wrong than right. […] the wrong ones do not get published so often” (Jacob Bronowski)	SCIENTIFIC
1972 hit for Elton John, from his Honky Château album	rocket Man
19th-century German youth who claimed to have grown up in a darkened cell	Kaspar Hauser
A British name for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda	East Africa
A member of the Middle East’s largest Christian population	COPT
African river with a delta about 400 miles from the sea	OKAVANGO
Another name for the marsupial Phascolarctos cinereus	koala bear
Belgian cyclist who won the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia five times each, and one Vuelta a España	Eddy Merckx
Big ____ is the only US National Park from which you can cross the border into Mexico	BEND
Brahms wrote the ____ and Academic Festival overtures as contrasting pieces in 1880	TRAGIC
Brazilian football club for which Pelé played	SANTOS
British actress who starred with Peter Fonda in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry	Susan George
Card game invented in Uruguay, popular in the 1950s	CANASTA
Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is the seat of dukes of ____	DEVONSHIRE
Chinese province bordering Burma, Laos and Vietnam	YUNNAN
Collectible items from the period 1901-10	EDWARDIANA
Composition for orchestra, chorus and solo singers	ORATORIO
Fire up	ENERGISE
Firm named after Japanese characters for “sun” and “rise”	HITACHI
Floral badge worn in spring by Irish republicans	Easter lily
For any unsolved clues in this puzzle, ask a “____” to help	walking encyclopaedia
Forces linking atoms, produced by a transfer of electrons	ionic bonds
Form of passenger transport invented in Japan, c 1869	RICKSHAW
Hungary won every Olympic team ____ event from 1928 to 1960	SABRE
Iannis ____ was a 20th-century composer whose music often used architectural or mathematical ideas	xenakis
In medieval churches, the ____ was usually close to the main entrance	FONT
Irena ____ is the only athlete to have held the world record in the 100m, 200m and 400m	szewinska
John Harvey ____ and Will Keith ____ invented cornflakes	KELLOGG
Like a walnut, a ____ nut is strictly the edible seed of a drupe	PECAN
Middle Eastern salutation meaning “peace”	SALAAM
Most recent British winner of the Olympic 3000m steeplechase, in 1956	Chris Brasher
Name shared by Royal Navy vessels and RAF bombers	VALIANT
Nocturnal predatory bird with a screeching call	barn owl
Othello’s promotion of ____ causes Iago to plot against him	CASSIO
Region of India between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea	Malabar Coast
Spanish for “Auntie Mary”, a liqueur made from coffee beans	Tia Maria
Swimmer in Greek myth who is mentioned in several Shakespeare plays	LEANDER
The amount by which the value of a nation’s exports exceeds the cost of its imports	trade surplus
The eight species of ____ are the only old-world mammals with keratin scales covering their skin	PANGOLIN
The item of clothing fastened with a woggle	NECKERCHIEF
The probable destination of a hiker with a scallop shell on their rucksack	santiago de compostela
The service that was provided by Mechanics’ Institutes	adult education
The smallest coin in present-day US currency	DIME
To notice something suspicious	smell a rat
Transport service connecting all US states except Alaska, Hawaii, South Dakota and Wyoming	AMTRAK
White paint mixture traditionally used as a substrate for painting	GESSO
____ (1389-1464) founded a political dynasty in Florence	Cosimo de' Medici
____ dioxide is the most abundant compound in the earth’s crust	SILICON
____ had a hit with That’s Amore in 1953	Dean Martin