The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 146 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 146 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Material produced by erosion or decomposition	DETRITUS
Matt ____ won eight swimming golds in the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics	BIONDI
Mr ____ is Captain Hook’s bo’sun in Peter Pan	SMEE
One seeking distraction from unpleasant reality	ESCAPIST
One who studies aquatic plants and animals	hydrobiologist
Pertaining to the pigmented part of the eye	UVEAL
Piece of furniture whose name derives from an Arabic word for a raised platform	SOFA
Preparations made from this mushroom are credited with various stimulant and health-giving properties	REISHI
Rastafarian first person plural	I and I
Relating to a sea or lake shore	LITTORAL
Sea shell sometimes used as a wind instrument	CONCH
Simon ____ hosted the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, 1988-93	MAYO
Sitcom in which Chris Barrie played the manager of Whitbury Newtown leisure centre	The Brittas Empire
Stage name of English comic actor Arthur Jefferson	Stan Laurel
Sudan’s second largest city, across the Nile from Khartoum	OMDURMAN
That which a cereologist would study	crop circle
The “bit in brackets” in the title of a No 1 hit for Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel	Come Up and See Me
The equivalent of a knockout in judo	IPPON
The first Ukrainian woman to break into the top 10 rankings in tennis	Elina Svitolina
The reverse solidus of typography	BACKSLASH
The ____ was a 2000 crime thriller starring Ryan Phillippe and Benicio del Toro	Way Of The Gun
Thinning agents	DILUENTS
To set up, or to demonstrate	ESTABLISH
Too densely populated	overpeopled
Travelling groups of dancers or other entertainers	TROUPES
Under Ramsay MacDonald, the first female cabinet minister	Margaret Bondfield
What Britannia had in her left hand on the original reverse of a 50p coin	olive branch
Wrapped up like some larvae	COCOONED
____ passports were first issued to refugees from the Russian civil war, in 1922	NANSEN

Clues	Answers
A lament or slow musical piece, from a type of Ukrainian folk music	DUMKA
A Norse bard	SKALD
A sausage originally made in Bologna	MORTADELLA
A traditional “tagging” game of school playgrounds	British Bulldog
Abnormally low count of a white blood cell	neutropenia
Amazon’s virtual assistant, since November 2014	ALEXA
Amelia ____ was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic	EARHART
American sports league in which the Toronto Raptors are the only Canadian team	NBA
Any plant of the Pisum genus	PEA
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong	Murphy's Law
Author of Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author who said “What is an adult? A child blown up by age”	Simone de Beauvoir
Bowmore is on the coast of this Islay sea inlet	Loch Indaal
Capital city of Belarus	MINSK
Cause something to happen suddenly	touch off
Charity whose motto is “Giving nature a home”	rspb
Chinese rice porridge	CONGEE
Chris ____ won at least one grand slam singles title for 13 years in succession	EVERT
F1 driver who became the youngest ever world champion in 1972	Emerson Fittipaldi
Final name of a former game show hosted by Michael Barrymore	Strike It Rich
Former game show based on noughts and crosses	Celebrity Squares
Former Haitian president known as Baby Doc	Jean-Claude Duvalier
Greek letter which means “sum” in maths	SIGMA
Host of 23 Down, in two stints, for approximately nine years	Bob Monkhouse
Humulus lupulus, the fruit clusters of which are used in beer-making	HOP
In school slang, to be a lookout	keep cave
Inflammation of the optic disc	papillitis
Knead clay for use in making pottery	PUG
Main residence of French kings in the century before the revolution	Palace of Versailles