The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 116 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 116 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Manchester City footballer honoured by the only named stand at the Etihad Stadium	Colin Bell
Musical work often scored for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and wind quintet	NONET
New organisation of military forces after a setback	regrouping
NZ comedy duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, who made a BBC radio series of the same name	Flight of the Conchords
Part of Louisiana, equivalent to a county in most US states	PARISH
Poet, garden designer, and lover of Virginia Woolf	Vita Sackville-West
Process of extracting material by washing with solvent	ELUTION
Rampart platform on which cannons are placed	terreplein
River which flows through Ilkley and Tadcaster	WHARFE
Rock band whose first single was Radio Free Europe in 1981	REM
Rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice	Jesus Christ Superstar
Scottish golfer, non-playing captain of the 2002 European Ryder Cup team	Sam Torrance
Sheep such as Cotswold or Wensleydale	longwool
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles single, influenced by the opera Pagliacci, and one of the few hit singles in which a bassoon is heard	The Tears of a Clown
Someone who spends a lot of time on the internet	ONLINER
Song whose lyrics begin 'When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, what will I be?'	Que Sera Sera
Stephen King's first published novel	CARRIE
Successor to Sajid Javid on his replacement of Amber Rudd	James Brokenshire
The Isle of Man was a part of this country until 1266	NORWAY
The ____, Wilfred Owen poem about the First World War	Last Laugh
These may be folding or recumbent	BICYCLES
This may open automatically as you approach it	swing door
Trademark for a hybrid citrus fruit grown in Jamaica	UGLI
Tuscany's Republic of ____ existed from 1125 to 1555	SIENA
Type of signalling flare fired from a pistol	Very light
US musician who replaced David Lee Roth as lead singer for Van Halen	Sammy Hagar
Waxy water-repellent material on the epidermis of plants	CUTIN
Writer who won the 1987 Booker Prize for Moon Tiger	Penelope Lively
Yuri Gagarin, for example	COSMONAUT
____ Samsa becomes a beetle in Kafka's The Metamorphosis	GREGOR

Clues	Answers
'The ____ for destruction is also a creative ____!' (Michael Bakunin)	URGE
1986 Steve Winwood single with vocals by Chaka Khan	Higher Love
2000 Robbie Williams single, the first from the album Sing When You’re Winning	Rock DJ
A BBC magazine until 1991 — its famously difficult crossword survives in Saturday editions of The Times	The Listener
A door within a door, found in many homes	cat flap
A drug which can destroy eg cancer cells without harming the host	magic bullet
A plausible but erroneous argument used to deceive	SOPHISM
A Spanish or Mexican outlaw	BANDOLERO
An elected council of the former USSR	SOVIET
Ancient kingdom whose queen visited Solomon	SHEBA
And what follows (abbreviated Latin)	et seq
At Heathrow, 09L and 09R, or 27L and 27R	RUNWAYS
Body of water containing Tsushima Island	Korea Strait
British physicist, a pioneer of vacuum tubes	Sir William Crookes
British singer/songwriter, guest vocalist in David Guetta’s One Love	ESTELLE
Calcium carbonate in mineral form	CHALK
City and province in the southeastern corner of Iraq’s Kurdistan region	halabja
Colloquially, to thoroughly dominate an opponent or task	OWN
Cumbrian town where mint cake is made	KENDAL
Famous girls' school on a cliff overlooking Brighton Marina	ROEDEAN
Fashion designer who became (American) Vogue’s youngest editor in 1970	Vera Wang
Film director, of Stella Dallas and Duel in the Sun	King Vidor
Finnish for Finland	SUOMI
Flint scraping tools associated with Neanderthals	racloirs
Founder of the De Beers diamond company	Cecil Rhodes
From the German for 'world view', a philosophy of life	WELTANSCHAUUNG
Having three toes or fingers (on one limb)	TRIDACTYL
Informally, the profession of James Alfred Wight, better known as James Herriot	VET
Internet abbreviation referring to events outside the online or gaming world	IRL
Jeff ____ scored the winning goal for West Bromwich Albion in the 1968 FA cup final	ASTLE