The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 137 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 137 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Minutiae	petty details
Motor scooter made by the Italian manufacturer Innocenti	lambretta
Motorcycle with an engine of, typically, 50cc or less	MOPED
Name that has been used for both of two consecutive parables in Luke 14	The Wedding Feast
New Zealand equestrian who competed at seven Olympic Games	Mark Todd
Nickname of Lexington, in Kentucky’s Bluegrass region	Horse Capital of the World
Olympic 400m champion in 1976 and 1984, prevented by boycott from competing in 1980	Ed Moses
On This Day In History was a regular feature of this presenter’s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show	Simon Mayo
One who enjoys solitude and social interaction in roughly equal measure	AMBIVERT
Ornamental table centrepiece, which may hold food or flowers	EPERGNE
Prepares for osculation	puckers up
Protagonist of the Mission: Impossible films	Ethan Hunt
Residing somewhere in a diplomatic capacity	en poste
Set on fire	IGNITED
Situations with outcomes determined by chance	LOTTERIES
Somerset opening batsman who played for England in 76 Test and 123 ODI matches	Marcus Trescothick
Sophia Loren’s duet partner on the novelty single Goodness Gracious Me	Peter Sellers
Tall, slender dogs of Middle Eastern origin	SALUKIS
The largest town on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey	SHEERNESS
The part of an opera often followed by a full aria	SCENA
The two longest-serving members of this rock band were both born in Dartford	Rolling Stones
The ___ was a recent BBC One drama about a custody battle	CRY
Third piece in Book II of Debussy’s Preludes, depicting the “wine gate” of Granada’s Alhambra	La Puerta del Vino
To incite, often towards immoral acts	SOLICIT
Tony Christie single featured in Phoenix Nights	Is This The Way To Amarillo
Tranquiliser often sold as Ativan	LORAZEPAM

Clues	Answers
“And when love comes along, it’s just a ____” (Code of Love, Spandau Ballet)	Catcher In The Rye
“Generally speaking, colour is a power which directly ____ the soul” (Kandinsky)	INFLUENCES
17th and 18th-century German Lutheran movement seeking to renew devotion	PIETISM
A chrysalis	PUPA
A handgun shooting technique which passively absorbs recoil	Isosceles Stance
A soft drink, to an American	SODA
Actor who played George VI in The King’s Speech	Colin Firth
All-male Canadian rock band whose single One Week reached number 5 in the UK charts in 1998	Barenaked Ladies
American philosopher whose concepts included the “transparent eyeball”	Ralph Waldo Emerson
An account for food and lodging at an Oxford college	BATTELS
Another nickname for the Scottish snooker player often called the Pocket Dynamo	Pot the lot Dott
Author of The Little Match Girl	Hans Christian Andersen
BBC2 music show which featured the “star kicker” logo	The Old Grey Whistle Test
Building method using no mortar	DRYSTONE
Cretans, as described in the Epimenides paradox	LIARS
Element with atomic number 30, alloyed with its neighbour in the periodic table (number 29) since ancient times	ZINC
Ending of eight of the first 100 ordinal numbers in English	ETH
Formally, the Queen is Her ____ Majesty	BRITANNIC
From Italian, a name for shallow ornamental wine cups	tazze
Goldie’s opponent half an hour before the boat race	ISIS
Important document in transportation and education	TIMETABLE
In Twelfth Night, this involves Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria	SUBPLOT
Informally, a retired member of the armed services working at the Tower of London	BEEFEATER
Italian driver Gabriele ____ scored 1 point in 78 Formula One races	tarquini
Latin motto of the City of London	Domine dirige nos
Lead singer of the Velvet Underground	Lou Reed