The Times - Specialist - December 15 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 192
Clues	Answers
1929 Thomas Wolfe novel subtitled A Story of the Buried Life	Look Homeward Angel
1942 war film for which Noel Coward wrote the screenplay and music, as well as playing a starring role and jointly directing with David Lean	In Which We Serve
A new channel made for a river or canal	CUT
A sawhorse has a beam joining two ____s	A-frame
A scruffy child	RAGAMUFFIN
A variety of pelota	jai alai
Abalone, also called sea-ear, of the Channel Islands	ORMER
Actor whose roles included maintenance man Mr Harman in Are You Being Served?	Arthur English
Anatomical dividing wall, such as the one separating nostrils	SEPTUM
Challenge on black and white squares in many newspapers	chess problem
Chaos, named after a mental hospital in London	BEDLAM
Codename of the Playstation 4 Pro gaming console	NEO
Common name for Pterolidae, ground-dwelling birds related to pigeons, mostly found in arid areas	SANDGROUSE
Dutch coach of Nigeria’s victorious 1996 Olympic football team	jo bonfrere
English traveller who gained fame after listing his “life for sale” on eBay in 2008	Ian Usher
Eponymous villain of a series of science fiction fantasy books by Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl
Eutrema japonicum, or the green condiment made from it	WASABI
Excessively abundant	plethoric
First part of a trilogy, followed by Purgatory and Paradise	INFERNO
Footballer who scored 185 goals for Arsenal, 1991-98	Ian Wright
Former Dutch coin, now anything of minimal value	STIVER
French duo who had a hit with D.I.S.C.O. in 1980	OTTAWAN
Game rewarding speed of recognition and reaction	SNAP
Gas which miners call firedamp	METHANE
Golfer whose official website is shark.com	Greg Norman
Jim ____ was a pioneer of country music’s Nashville Sound	REEVES
Leg condition that may be treated with sclerotherapy	varicose veins
London’s ____ Bridge is also called Victoria Railway Bridge	GROSVENOR
Lover and eventual husband of Rosalind in As You Like It	ORLANDO
Meat from a pig’s thigh	HAM
One of six districts in an Italian city, such as Venice	sestiere
One of three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord	Meninx
Pigment used by painters since Roman times	green earth
Player of the match in the 2019 Rugby World Cup final	Duane Vermeulen
Porsche, Daimler AG, and Mercedes-Benz are headquartered in this city	STUTTGART
Port in Kent where Perkin Warbeck tried to land in 1495	DEAL
Southernmost of England’s six metropolitan counties	West Midlands
Stage name of comedian Robert Davis	Jasper Carrott
Star Trek commander played by Marina Sirtis	Deanna Troi
Tennis player who said, in 1984, “I’ll let the racquet do the talking”	John McEnroe
That pushed when one exceeds normal limits	ENVELOPE
The foundling of a novel by Henry Fielding	tom jones
The majority of the last nine bars in Sibelius’s fifth symphony	SILENCE
The muse of song and dance	TERPSICHORE
What the French call son et lumière	sound and light show
Wheels or floats on aeroplanes	landing gear
When first elected in 1989, William ____ was the youngest Conservative MP	HAGUE
Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and Deborah Kerr have all played ___s in films	NUN
____ Gryffindor is a Harry Potter character	GODRIC
____ succeeded Romulus as a legendary king of Rome	Numa Pompilius