The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 159 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 159 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Hilary Mantel novel documenting the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell	Wolf Hall
In astronomy, an informal alternative to “circumstellar” as a description of a habitable zone	GOLDILOCKS
In literature or music, a recurring theme	LEITMOTIF
In old slang, a ____-worry was a tea-party	MUFFIN
Insectivore of the Soricidae family	SHREW
Jamaican musical genre, a precursor to reggae	SKA
James Joyce novel which revolves around the Earwicker family	Finnegans Wake
Location which inspired the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire	Ilkley Moor
Oily secretion which lubricates hair and skin	SEBUM
One sixth of a drachma in ancient Greece	OBOL
Opera in which the eponymous character’s father is the Emperor Altoum	TURANDOT
Paul Theroux novel adapted into a 1986 film	The Mosquito Coast
Resembling skin	DERMATOID
Robbie Coltrane played Rubeus ____ in Harry Potter films	HAGRID
The current world chess champion	Magnus Carlsen
The distinctive standards of an institution or individual	ETHOS
The European Space Agency’s programme contributing to the International Space Station	COLUMBUS
The headquarters of the Council of Europe are in ____	STRASBOURG
The Isle of Bute is in the ____	Firth of Clyde
The most recent Grand National winner sponsored by a company of the same name	SEAGRAM
The only member of Robin Hood’s Merry Men present in the most common account of his death	Little John
The President of India	Ram Nath Kovind
The proboscis monkey is the only member of this genus	NASALIS
The ____ Peninsula separates the Thames and Medway estuaries	HOO
Two-pronged attachment to a boat, for securing ropes	CLEAT

Clues	Answers
1923 Pulitzer prize winner for One of Ours	Willa Cather
1962 single by Nancy Sinatra; 2018 single by David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Brooks	Like I Do
1984 musical film starring Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer	FOOTLOOSE
A pin for holding the hair in place	BARRETTE
A small carnivore or a type of antelope	SABLE
A symptom of kidney failure	anuria
About 25 per cent of the UK’s groups of ____ are recognised by the Royal Navy	Sea Scouts
Actor who founded southeast London’s Dulwich College	Edward Alleyn
Actress and singer who was Hollywood’s “Sarong Queen”	Dorothy Lamour
Afrikaans term for a foreigner, such as a British immigrant in 19th-century Transvaal	uitlander
Archipelago formerly known as the New Hebrides	VANUATU
Author of How Green Was My Valley	Richard Llewellyn
Author of the Metamorphoses	OVID
Blade which may be attached to a rifle muzzle	BAYONET
Breathing tube inserted after a tracheotomy	CANNULA
Cassiterite is the only commercially important ____	tin ore
Central California city, a gateway to the Sierra Nevada	FRESNO
Chris ____ played Roy Trenneman in The IT Crowd	O'Dowd
Company which published the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus in 1852	longman
Constellation noted for the “W” shape of its brightest stars	CASSIOPEIA
Cylindrical firm cheese produced in France’s Auvergne region	CANTAL
Dickens character whose dog is called Bull’s-eye	Bill Sikes
District of London in which Enid Blyton was born	DULWICH
Fictional character who has affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis	Emma Bovary
Game show first shown in September 2008 on BBC Four	Only Connect