The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 168 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 168 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Items placed in footwear for warmth or comfort	INSOLES
Léo ____ wrote the music for the ballet Coppélia	DELIBES
Madrid stadium which hosted the 2019 Uefa Champions League final	Wanda Metropolitano
Mexican painter famed for his murals	Diego Rivera
Mushroom which contains the drug psilocybin	liberty cap
Musical composition played in a slow, dignified manner	LARGO
Navels	UMBILICI
Neutral vowel sound represented by the letter Y in Welsh	SCHWA
North American animal also called “wapiti”	ELK
Occurring throughout a metropolis	CITYWIDE
Patrick ____ created plans for rebuilding post-war London	ABERCROMBIE
Philip Pullman trilogy consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass	His Dark Materials
Portuguese footballer sometimes known as “O Rei” (The King)	EUSEBIO
Resembling a mythical journey into the underworld	ORPHEAN
River which formed the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul	RUBICON
Simon ____ co-founded the avant-pop Penguin Cafe Orchestra	jeffes
Son of King Priam ambushed and killed by Achilles	TROILUS
Spray blown from the crests of waves	SPINDRIFT
The bracketed part in the title of James Brown’s most successful single	I Feel Good
The only UK No 1 single for Pink Floyd	Another Brick In The Wall
The term “____ fiction” was popularised by HP Lovecraft, one of its best-known exponents	WEIRD
The ____ is the harbour wall at Lyme Regis	COBB
TV “dragon”, chairman of Millwall FC, 1995-2007	Theo Paphitis
Word game also called “capping the rhyme”	CRAMBO
Writer of the book and lyrics for Spamalot	Eric Idle

Clues	Answers
“If those to whom power is ____ do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised” (Thomas Paine)	DELEGATED
“Walk the dog” is a famous trick with this toy	yo-yo
“____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain” (William Cowper)	DETESTED
1950s pop genre often using unconventional instruments	SKIFFLE
A sea mist of the east coast of England and Scotland	HAAR
A tiny amount; ninth letter of the Greek alphabet	IOTA
A ____ cipher encodes letters in pairs rather than singly	digraphic
At or near the stern of a vessel	AFT
BBC One crime drama starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby	Inspector George Gently
Boxer who sparred with Rocky Balboa in Rocky II	Roberto Duran
Character played by Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix films	TRINITY
Chrysotile is the most common form of this incombustible material	ASBESTOS
City destroyed by Vesuvius in AD79	POMPEII
Common name for a plant of the genus Geum	AVENS
Director of the 1972 film The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola
Duran Duran single which preceded Ordinary World	SERIOUS
Eastenders character Beppe ____ had relationships with Grant Mitchell’s wife and sister	Di Marco
Female gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games	Claudia Fragapane
Foodstuff that HMS Bounty was meant to take from Tahiti to the West Indies, on the voyage that ended in mutiny	BREADFRUIT
French stew, especially of beef, traditionally made in a terracotta pot	DAUBE
Gothic arch; a cumulative frequency graph in statistics	OGIVE
Greek tragedian whose works include Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus Rex	SOPHOCLES
Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber	J B Morton
In golf, with a score higher than regulation	over par
In logic and mathematics, the meaning of three dots forming an upward-pointing triangle	THEREFORE