The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 098 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 098 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Greek goddess of agriculture and harvest	DEMETER
Hill in Perthshire which is mentioned in Macbeth	DUNSINANE
Hindu sage or poet	RISHI
Horse-drawn carriage named after the German town where it was first made	LANDAU
Host of Crackerjack from 1968-1974	Michael Aspel
Informally, the mathematical function inverse to exponentiation	LOG
Jewish greeting, the Hebrew word for “peace”	SHALOM
Like Foinaven, a racehorse and a Sutherland mountain	ARKLE
Lizard-like reptile of New Zealand	TUATARA
Mischievous shape-shifting god in Norse mythology	LOKI
Mowgli’s friend and mentor in The Jungle Book	BAGHEERA
Our possible fate after death	Eternal nothingness
Peter Mark ____ published a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms	ROGET
Pupa within its cocoon	CHRYSALIS
Relating to the groin	inguinal
Retained, as of a grudge	HARBOURED
Russian tea urn, sometimes elaborately decorated	SAMOVAR
State of Mexico between Chihuahua and Baja California	SONORA
Strap holding a saddle or other equestrian equipment in place	SURCINGLE
Street between Pall Mall and Northumberland Avenue, especially in Monopoly	WHITEHALL
Substance produced by the breaking up of eg fat globules	homogenate
Taxonomic rank between family and species	GENUS
The offence of a twoccer	taking without consent
The only footballer to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final	Geoff Hurst
The setting of Coronation Street	weatherfield
The ____, debut novel of Stephen Fry	LIAR
To dine at the building where the food was prepared	eat in
Warren Mitchell’s most famous comic role	Alf Garnett
White House press secretary replaced by Sarah Huckabee Sanders	Sean Spicer
Wind which is directionally opposite to the sirocco	MISTRAL

Clues	Answers
“One touch of nature makes the whole world ____” (Ulysses, in Troilus and Cressida)	KIN
13th-century theologian Thomas ____ wrote the “five ways”, arguments for the existence of God	AQUINAS
1991 film starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy	Fried Green Tomatoes
A pout	MOUE
A single-seat carriage with two or four wheels	STANHOPE
A ____ play is a staged Bible story	MYSTERY
Actress who gained fame as a five-year-old in Bright Eyes	Shirley Temple
Actress who starred alongside Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice	Geena Davis
Animals with wing-like feet	alipeds
April 25 in Australia and New Zealand	Anzac Day
Astronomical treatise by Ptolemy	ALMAGEST
Author credited with popularising the name Wendy	J M Barrie
Author of Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson
Before Jules Verne, Casanova wrote this book subtitled Journey to the Centre of the Earth	icosameron
Ben Jonson comedy, its title the Italian for 'fox'	VOLPONE
Canadian-American impressionist known as The Man of a Thousand Voices	Rich Little
Capital of North Holland	HAARLEM
Carbonates of this element and calcium create hard water	MAGNESIUM
Charles Darwin work on sexual selection	Descent of Man
Chief puppet in the French equivalent of Punch and Judy	GUIGNOL
Chrysotile is one form of this fire-resistant material	ASBESTOS
Composer of the opera Bluebeard’s Castle	BARTOK
Critical evaluation of biblical text	EXEGESIS
Device put in front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles	COWCATCHER
Device which converts digital data to an analogue signal and vice versa	MODEM
Encyclopaedic work on the lives of Christian saints, started in the 17th century	Acta Sanctorum
English king, replaced briefly by Sweyn Forkbeard	ETHELRED
Entertainer whose epitaph describes him and his wife as “Reunitey in the heavenly-bode — Deep Joy!”	Stanley Unwin
Gateshead, Jarrow, and South Shields are ____ towns	TYNESIDE
Grape juice ready for use in wine-making	MUST