The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 125 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 125 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Member of the goosefoot family, often used in the same way as spinach	ORACHE
Message of respectful goodwill at the end of a letter	REGARDS
Mineral sometimes called ruby of arsenic	REALGAR
Muhammad’s rightful successor, according to Shia Muslims	ALI
Name given to Thomas Anderson in The Matrix	NEO
New Romantic band which released the 1982 album The Lexicon of Love	ABC
One chosen to settle disputes	ARBITRATOR
Playwright who one might think was afraid of Christmas	Noel Coward
Poet whose most famous work was The Windhover	Gerard Manley Hopkins
Polaris is the brightest star in ____ Minor	URSA
Responsibility, according to Winston Churchill	The price of greatness
Rock group fronted by Captain Beefheart	The Magic Band
Rooster featured in the tales of Reynard the Fox	CHANTICLEER
Sheep breed, originally from Spain, producing fine wool	MERINO
South Africa’s 55-mile Comrades marathon is run between the cities of ____ and Durban	pietermaritzburg
Spanish peninsula, its name reflecting the ancient Roman belief that it marked the end of the known world	Cape Finisterre
Strasbourg-born Jean (or Hans) ____ was a 20th-century poet, sculptor and abstract artist	ARP
Take out again (as a subscription)	RENEW
Team GB’s flag bearer at the 2016 Olympic Games closing ceremony	Kate Richardson-Walsh
The Australian national football team	socceroos
The held end of a string player’s bow	HEEL
The second most populated city of Belarus, also the name of its southeastern region	gomel
To ____ oneself is to gain favour, often using flattery	INGRATIATE
Traditional remedy for nettle stings	dock leaf
UK online supermarket with no bricks and mortar shops	OCADO
Undemanding literature regarded as suitable for holidaymakers	airport fiction
Wonder Woman’s main adversary is Dr Barbara Ann Minerva, aka The ____	CHEETAH
Wrapped up in oneself	EGOCENTRIC
Writer and comedian whose famous roles include Edward Elizabeth Hitler	Adrian Edmondson

Clues	Answers
“I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ____” (James Broughton)	AGELESS
“I’m nothing special, in fact I’m a bit of a bore” is the first line of this Abba song	Thank You for the Music
“If you think that the ____ is not blowing hard enough, tone it down another shade or two” (Richard Strauss)	BRASS
“My wife is ____, but by whom?” (Sam Levenson)	OUTSPOKEN
1 ____-hour = 3600 coulombs	AMPERE
1984 romantic comedy starring JoBeth Williams and Tom Conti	American Dreamer
A member of the genus Rhinolophus	horseshoe bat
A motorcyclist might buy this from Watsonian Squire	SIDECAR
A pinch of snuff, to a Scot	sneesh
Alphabetically, the fifth of Santa’s reindeer	DASHER
An alternative to “avifauna” as a term for an area’s birds	ORNIS
Author whose final novel, Silent Lady, was published four years after her death	Catherine Cookson
Bring something into position for (usually military) action	DEPLOY
Cain was exiled to the Land of ____	NOD
Cleon’s wife, who plots to kill Marina, in Pericles, Prince of Tyre	dionyza
Cobbled street which is one of Norwich’s most famous landmarks	Elm Hill
Dialect originating in southeastern China	hokkien
Electrical property represented by the Greek letter omega	RESISTANCE
Exhibition showing the development of an artist’s work	RETROSPECTIVE
Former Birmingham City and Portsmouth footballer, currently head coach of the Senegal national team	Aliou Cisse
Former boxer, Celebrity Big Brother’s first ever evictee	Chris Eubank
I think, therefore I am	cogito ergo sum
In Bizet’s opera, Carmen is normally sung by a ____	mezzo-soprano
In photographic jargon, a lens	OPTIC
Jos Buttler’s role in the current England test cricket team	WICKETKEEPER
Julie ____ played Bet Lynch in Coronation Street	GOODYEAR
Loose, sleeveless outer garment of the Middle East	ABA
Lower part of the alimentary canal	GUT
Main ingredient of the Mediterranean delicacies bottarga and taramasalata	ROE