The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 128 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 128 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Ernest ____ is regarded as the father of nuclear physics	RUTHERFORD
Fictional character who has on-off relationships with Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver	bridget jones
Frederik ____ completed Arthur C Clarke’s The Last Theorem shortly before Clarke died in 2008	POHL
Freshwater protozoon, with a slipper-like shape	PARAMECIUM
German band who recorded ten albums in their Masters of Chant series	GREGORIAN
Gloucestershire railway station immortalised in a 1917 poem by Edward Thomas	ADLESTROP
In America, this is sold by a haberdasher	MENSWEAR
Informally, an isolated area in the USA	the boondocks
Is uncooperative, or exaggerates the importance of	plays up
IT problem which may turn out to be a bug	ISSUE
Label identifying each device attached to the internet	IP address
Like a leotard or wet suit	skin-tight
Native islander in Alaska or Kamchatka	ALEUT
Noble gas in the decay chain of uranium	RADON
One who may be sitting in an asana	YOGI
One who studies late at night	lucubrator
Playhouse in London’s Haymarket	Theatre Royal
Professions of the members of a fictional social club associated with host Colin Crompton	Wheeltappers and Shunters
Russell Brand’s rock star character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall	Aldous Snow
Singer whose albums include Colour My World and Downtown	Petula Clark
Site of a 1995 massacre during the Bosnian War	srebrenica
The first capital city of the Kingdom of Italy	TURIN
The older of Isaac’s twin sons in the Old Testament	ESAU
The plant cannabis sativa	MARIJUANA
The world’s first vertical drop roller coaster, at Alton Towers	OBLIVION
To make someone aware or familiar	ACQUAINT
To preclude in law	ESTOP
____ addresses are speeches by newly elected heads of the five ancient universities of Scotland	RECTORIAL

Clues	Answers
“Bonxie” is an informal name for the predatory great ____	SKUA
“Great men are not always ____” (Book of Job)	WISE
“I like work […]. I love to keep it by me; the idea of ____ it nearly breaks my heart” (Jerome K Jerome)	getting rid of
“The most beautiful sound I ever heard” (Tony, in West Side Story)	MARIA
1960 book by Gavin Maxwell about an otter called Mijbil	Ring of Bright Water
1973 single written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan	Stuck in the Middle with You
1979 live album by Cliff Richard and The Shadows	Thank You Very Much
2011 No 1 single by Jessie J	Price Tag
A German motorway	AUTOBAHN
A quahog, for example	CLAM
A young herring	SILD
Acca ____, adoptive mother of Romulus and Remus	LARENTIA
Actor whose roles include that of Hawkeye in the 1970 film M*A*S*H	Donald Sutherland
Actress who played Mary Jane Watson in three Spider-Man films	Kirsten Dunst
Actress who won three consecutive Bafta awards for playing detective Jane Tennison	Helen Mirren
American baseball team originally called the Baltimore Orioles	New York Yankees
At an audition on January 1, 1962, this record company chose Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, rejecting the Beatles	DECCA
Author of The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio
Beliefs, customs, etc, usually preserved in oral tradition	FOLKLORE
Billy ____ was the lead singer in the 1970s punk band Generation X	IDOL
Country whose capital is La Habana	CUBA
Cursed nymph of Greek myth who could only speak by repeating the last words spoken to her	ECHO
Detective who first appeared in the 1987 novel Knots and Crosses	Inspector Rebus
Device used by police to impede vehicle movement	STINGER
Director of Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video	John Landis
Disease sometimes called petit mal or grand mal	EPILEPSY
English bantamweight boxer who won gold at the 2012 Olympics	Luke Campbell
English equivalent of “per annum”	a year