The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 144 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 144 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Japanese electronics company which produced the first VCR with an on-screen display	AKAI
Jay ____ was a singer with Bucks Fizz	ASTON
Jean Todt is the president of this sports governing body	fia
Mainly scientific BBC2 programme broadcast since 1964	HORIZON
Month during which the UK celebrates National Poetry Day	OCTOBER
No longer feeling passionately connected to	out of love with
Old-style cigarette filter, or a cigarette with one	cork tip
Percussion instrument with a circular arrangement of zills	TAMBOURINE
Prefix indicating a gland	ADENO
Scorer of 20 goals for England, and their current captain	Harry Kane
Self-balancing vehicle invented by Dean Kamen in 2001	SEGWAY
Sitcom spin-off of Only Fools and Horses, following “Boycie” and his family	The Green Green Grass
South Korean car manufacturer, its name meaning “modernity”	HYUNDAI
Southernmost city in mainland Britain	TRURO
Takes a previously failed examination	RESITS
Tax usually applied to goods prior to purchase	excise duty
The ceremony at which degrees are conferred	GRADUATION
The illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, and the subject of scandalous rumour	Lucrezia Borgia
The ____ Jiang river is also known as the Yangtze	CHANG
Title of a 2006 crime film starring Bruce Willis, in which the last word is not an example of the second	Lucky Number Slevin
Title shared by singles by Amy Winehouse and Rihanna	REHAB
To affect or to behave in accordance with	act upon
Traditional epithet of the Republic of Venice	La Serenissima
Two-legged dragon used in heraldry	WYVERN
Usual position of Australian rugby union international George Gregan	scrum-half
Vehicle which can carry only one passenger	two-seater
Wimbledon arena, which in its current form hosted its first match between Tim Henman and Daniel Nestor in 1997	Number One Court
World Heritage Site situated on the Yamuna river in India	Taj Mahal
____ starred in the 2002 film Spider-Man and two sequels	Tobey Maguire

Clues	Answers
“Brexit secretary” replaced by Stephen Barclay in November 2018	Dominic Raab
“If India is not ____, then India is not India at all” (Atal Bihari Vajpayee)	SECULAR
1974 film starring David Essex, sequel to That’ll Be the Day	STARDUST
1979 Booker Prize winner for Offshore	Penelope Fitzgerald
A downloadable digital audio recording, often part of a series for which the same name may be used	PODCAST
A Nazi prison camp for captured enemy officers	OFLAG
A thief, especially an embezzler	PECULATOR
A tradename for heat-resistant borosilicate glass	PYREX
A type of rotating jump in figure skating	LUTZ
Abstract imagery, often in black and white	op art
Annulment of an agreement or law	ABROGATION
Baroness Herbert, a granddaughter of Edward IV and first cousin of Henry VIII	Margaret Courtenay
BBC2 programme for the deaf, shown since 1980, now every Wednesday, usually at 8am	See Hear
Black cuckoo of tropical America	ANI
Cadbury chocolate bar which is “charged with glucose”	BOOST
Co-star of John Travolta in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy	Debra Winger
Comic magazine character standing alongside Minnie the Minx in a Dundee statue	Desperate Dan
Contracts for assets traded at an agreed price, to be delivered and paid for later	FUTURES
DC ____ publish The Beano, in which Minnie the Minx appears	THOMSON
Facility where you may find breakfast, coffee, wine or singles	BAR
Finnish work of epic poetry which influenced Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha	KALEVALA
Form of deism created by Robespierre, intended to replace Roman Catholicism in France	Cult of the Supreme Being
French phrase of resignation	c'est la guerre
Full name of the newspaper currently edited by George Osborne	London Evening Standard
Goods bought on ____ may be returned if not satisfactory	APPRO
Home ground of Everton FC	Goodison Park
Hungarian Prime Minister who was secretly tried and executed by the Soviets	Imre Nagy
Irish rock band whose 1996 album 1977 reached number 1	ASH
Island west of Mull, best-known for Fingal’s Cave	STAFFA