The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 176 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 176 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Mexican agave plant, or more commonly, its fibre	SISAL
Name for some verse, sometimes compared to music	pure poetry
Name originally used for a European wolf spider	TARANTULA
New York City is popularly called the ____	Big Apple
One of the gods invoked by Sarastro in the aria starting Act 2 of The Magic Flute	OSIRIS
Peter ____ was the most recent male winner of the Olympic 800m and 1500m double, in 1964	SNELL
Political theory developed by Lev Davidovich Bronstein	TROTSKYISM
Primal Scream’s most successful single, Country Girl, came from this album	Riot City Blues
Second letter of the Nato alphabet	BRAVO
Serious condition created by the body’s response to harmful microorganisms	SEPSIS
Small car, traditionally using an overhead power supply	DODGEM
Song after which Janet Webb often thanked TV viewers for “watching me and my little show here tonight”	Bring Me Sunshine
Spanish explorer, the first European documented as crossing the Mississippi	Hernando de Soto
Terrestrial crustacean of the Oniscidae family	WOODLOUSE
TETANUS, ATTUNES, UNSTATE, ____	TAUTENS
The author who created Roderick Random	SMOLLETT
The cap of a mushroom	PILEUS
The central principle in a speech or literary work	KEYNOTE
The ____, 2010 Howard Jacobson novel and winner of the Man Booker prize	Finkler Question
To give (someone) the runaround	fob off
Toni Morrison novel featuring Macon “Milkman” Dead III	Song of Solomon
Tournament in which each player competes against every other in turn	round robin
Vega is in this constellation	LYRA
____ became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002	Rowan Williams
____ bowls has a playing area with a raised centre	crown green

Clues	Answers
“Thou still ____ bride of quietness” (Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn)	unravished
“With butter” in Italian cuisine, eg in the dish that became Fettucine Alfredo	al burro
1993 film billed as “the first hip-hop whodunnit”	Who's The Man
A big problem or important question	major issue
A session of work	STINT
A South American flightless bird and a satellite of Saturn	RHEA
Actor who played Ender Wiggin in the 2013 film Ender’s Game	Asa Butterfield
Amorous outdoor scenes, eg those painted by Watteau	fetes galantes
An idiom such as “al dente” or “bel canto”	italicism
Another name for many types of otary	eared seals
Author of The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
Born in Bath, a comedian who once played football for Basingstoke Town	Russell Howard
Cock ____, founded in London’s East End in 1972, was an influential punk rock band	SPARRER
Dutch polymath Christiaan ____ invented the pendulum clock and discovered Titan, Saturn’s largest moon	HUYGENS
Exclamation of surprise, often thought of as Australian	STREWTH
From 1878, all papal conclaves have been in the ____ Chapel	SISTINE
Fruit of the blackthorn	SLOE
Graffiti “addendum” indicating dominance	rules OK
Gymnast Mary Lou ____ won women’s all-around gold at the 1984 Olympics	RETTON
In limited-overs cricket, a period with fielding restrictions	POWERPLAY
James ____ was the BBC’s main reporter on Apollo missions	BURKE
Joan ____, Spanish surrealist painter	MIRO
Kings of Leon’s follow-up single to Sex on Fire	Use Somebody
Lyric poem with couplets of a long line followed by a shorter one	EPODE
Manager of Middlesbrough when they won the League Cup in 2004	Steve McClaren