The Times - Specialist - November 17 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 188
Clues	Answers
“In difficult and desperate cases, the ____ counsels are the safest” (Livy)	BOLDEST
1969 road movie with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper	easy rider
1985 Howard Jones single with a TV parody video by Godley & Creme	Life In One Day
An amphibian larva	TADPOLE
Ancient tribe whose most famous leader was Boudicca	ICENI
Andre ____ beat Andrei Medvedev at Roland-Garros in 1999 to complete a career grand slam	AGASSI
Artist who said “I don’t paint things. I only paint the differences between things”	Henri Matisse
Australian who swam to three Olympic golds in 2008	Stephanie Rice
Brand of cars manufactured by AvtoVAZ, a Russian company owned by the Renault group	LADA
Decadent western culture, according to Rastafarians	BABYLON
Devon town which gives its name to a type of lace	HONITON
Earth is the best-known example of this type of spheroid	OBLATE
Father of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus	IAPETUS
Former Channel 4 reality TV show narrated by Michael Kitchen	Faking It
Informally, a large odd-toed ungulate of Africa and southern Asia	RHINO
Irish-born entertainer, noted for drag and impressions	Danny La Rue
Jodie Foster’s character in The Silence of the Lambs	Clarice Starling
Legal right to retain another’s property until a debt is paid	LIEN
Medieval literary language, related to French and Catalan	PROVENCAL
Mia ____ won two Olympic gold medals and two World Cups with the US women’s national soccer team	HAMM
Most ____ elements are in the lanthanide series	rare earth
Nigel Richards is the reigning ____ world champion	SCRABBLE
Pertaining to the kidneys	RENAL
Philip Hammond succeeded George ____ as chancellor of the exchequer	OSBORNE
Plant genus which formerly included common heather	ERICA
Poet known as the Georgian Laureate, father of a 20th-century town planner	Lascelles Abercrombie
Series of Broadway revue shows staged from 1907 to 1931	Ziegfeld Follies
Spanish dance; a short jacket	BOLERO
Stand with shelves for displaying ornaments, etc	WHATNOT
Standard colour of US military vehicles and GI uniforms in the Second World War	olive drab
The Derby is held at this racecourse	EPSOM
The fourth person to walk on the moon	Alan Bean
The great ____, a chalk downland bird in southern England, became extinct in 1832, and was reintroduced on Salisbury Plain in 2003	BUSTARD
The home town of Mary and Joseph	NAZARETH
The invasive hybrid plant Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora, illegal to plant or grow in the wild in Britain since 2010	MONTBRETIA
The largest city of the Crimean peninsula	SEVASTOPOL
The line from which a darts player throws	OCHE
The loser in ____ is left with a card which cannot be paired	old maid
The pen name of Eric Arthur Blair	George Orwell
The shire horse of Animal Farm	BOXER
The strip cut by a scythe or mowing machine	SWATHE
Toyota’s luxury car brand	LEXUS
Upright part of a step	RISER
Wartime airbase where Manchester Airport now stands	RAF Ringway
World Rally Drivers’ Championship winner, 2013-2018	Sebastien Ogier
Writer and director of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover	Peter Greenaway
X-shaped crossing of optic nerves	CHIASMA
____ and Bertrand Russell wrote Principia Mathematica	Alfred North Whitehead
____ is a collection regarded as including the earliest prose stories in British literature	The Mabinogion
____, or What You Will	Twelfth Night