The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 103 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 103 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Informally, a plant of the genus Tropaeolum	NASTURTIUM
Island featured in a Guardian supplement on April 1, 1977	san Serriffe
Julie T Wallace starred in the BBC dramatisation of Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a ____	she-devil
Lacking imagination or originality	PROSAIC
Large variety of prawn or penguin	KING
Leonard Bernstein operetta, based on a novella by Voltaire	CANDIDE
Liz ____ finished fourth in Labour’s 2015 leadership election?	KENDALL
Lullaby sung in the first scene of Porgy and Bess	SUMMERTIME
Mexican folk song, adapted by Ritchie Valens in a 1958 hit	La Bamba
Mix socially, possibly with those of other classes	rub shoulders
Mrs ____ is the housekeeper at Manderley	DANVERS
One Iberian city after which a dessert wine is named	OPORTO
One who classifies or defines	DESIGNATOR
Plants featured in a BBC Panorama report on April 1, 1957	spaghetti trees
Platinum metal element, discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1804	RHODIUM
Secondary schools in both Kennington and Croydon were founded by Thomas ____, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694-1715	TENISON
Short sleep during a working day	power nap
Standard Chinese, or the language group including it	MANDARIN
Stanley Holloway played Alfred ____ in the film version of My Fair Lady	DOOLITTLE
Steak ____, popular in the mid-20th century, is similar to steak au poivre, but with a flambéed sauce	DIANE
The final outcome of an endeavour	end product
The great ____ is an amphibian, protected in the UK	crested newt
The ideas and attitudes associated with a group of people	ETHOS
The language from which English borrowed the words 31A and 43D	PORTUGUESE
Thomas ____ married Catherine Parr after Henry VIII died	SEYMOUR
To intimidate	DAUNT
To make a humiliating retraction	eat one's words
Trafalgar, Lepanto or Salamis	sea battle
Valuable timber from some trees in the genus Dalbergia	ROSEWOOD
____ Scream is a rock group founded in Glasgow in 1982	PRIMAL

Clues	Answers
'I want to ____, and ____, and ____!' (Vivian Nicholson, after her husband’s £152,000 pools win in 1961)	SPEND
'I ____ him, because he is upper class' (Ronnie Barker, in a 1960s TV sketch)	look up to
8 on the Beaufort scale	gale-force
A checkup or viva voce	oral exam
A haemorrhagic fever or the virus causing it	EBOLA
A quatrain with rhyming scheme a b a b	heroic stanza
A queen may live here	HIVE
A sauce or pickle adding flavour to food	RELISH
A small case for articles like needles or cosmetics	ETUI
According to the English Heritage website, this cathedral city is the most frequently besieged place in the British Isles	CARLISLE
Act as others think you should, eg by resigning	do the decent thing
After a football goal kick, the ball is not in play until it leaves this area	penalty box
American name for a spittoon	CUSPIDOR
An old informal meaning of 'corporation'	distended belly
An x, y or z is this kind of number in traditional algebra	UNKNOWN
Armour protecting the face and eyes	VISOR
Assiettes de charcuterie or informally, body parts	plates of meat
Cause of midday merriness	liquid lunch
Clyde ____ discovered Pluto in 1930	TOMBAUGH
Daniel Craig stars in this 2008 film about Second World War partisans in German-occupied Poland	DEFIANCE
Dark Sky Island (2015) is this Irish singer’s most recent album	ENYA
Execution by drowning, especially at Nantes during the Reign of Terror	NOYADE
Feature of a normal heart beat, controlled by the sino-atrial node	sinus rhythm
French composer, conductor of the BBCSO, 1971-75	Pierre Boulez
Frivolous unexpected functionality in computer applications, such as the result of a Google search for 'Bletchley Park'	easter egg
Georgia ____'s best-known paintings were of flowers, skyscrapers, and the New Mexico landscape	O'Keeffe
In 1960, Herb ___ of Australia was the last man to set a world record in an Olympic 1500m final	ELLIOTT
In 41A, this is 'Domingo de Páscoa'	Easter Sunday
In a state of confusion, supposedly named after an old dispute between City of London livery companies	at sixes and sevens
In geometry, part of a shape cut off by a line or plane intersecting it	SEGMENT