The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 147 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 147 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Island whose king was Odysseus according to Homeric legend	ITHACA
La ____ is a tight right-hand bend near the end of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit	RASCASSE
London’s first ____ café opened in 1994	INTERNET
Month shared by the astrological signs Sagittarius and Capricorn	DECEMBER
Original spelling for a unit defined as the weight of a cubic centimetre of water	GRAMME
Pain-inhibiting peptide produced by the brain	ENDORPHIN
People or things of the same age	COEVALS
Portuguese footballer whose record of 127 caps was broken by Cristiano Ronaldo	Luis Figo
Rock band whose bassist is known as Flea	Red Hot Chili Peppers
Russian author of Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev
Scentless plant of woods and hedges	dog violet
Second largest lake in the Lake District	ULLSWATER
Sicily’s active volcano	ETNA
Sitcom whose opening theme was called The Ballad of Jed Clampett	The Beverly Hillbillies
State lying between Kansas and Texas	OKLAHOMA
State whose dominance of southern Greece was ended by the battle of Leuctra in 371BC	SPARTA
The brightest star of the constellation Taurus	ALDEBARAN
The capital of Finland	HELSINKI
The final work of Jacques ____ was the unfinished opera The Tales of Hoffmann	OFFENBACH
The only Central American country with English as its official language	BELIZE
The only overseas territory given to Castile rather than Portugal by the treaty of Alcacovas in 1479	Canary Islands
The UK’s best-known ____ pact lasted for about 18 months, starting in March 1977	lib-lab
The ____ or Rongkup people are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of India’s state of Sikkim	lepcha
Thomas ____’s inventions included the microphone	EDISON
TV writer who created The Liver Birds, Butterflies, and Bread	Carla Lane
Vertical bar which separates window panes	MULLION
With arms and legs stretched out	spread-eagled

Clues	Answers
“____ consists in believing what reason cannot” (Voltaire)	FAITH
1972 novel by Frederick Forsyth	The Odessa File
1986 martial arts comedy film starring Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall	Big Trouble In Little China
1990s game show hosted by Phillip Schofield and, latterly, Claudia Winkleman	Talking Telephone Numbers
A change to a proposed bill	AMENDMENT
A name for a hostile attack, rarely seen in singular form	INROAD
A period of leave, often to undertake a different project	SABBATICAL
A subsidiary of the ____ transport company operates most Thameslink rail services	govia
Adjective describing email that you don’t want	spammy
All-rounder Nigel ____ made over 200 appearances for Somerset	popplewell
An exile, especially for political reasons	EMIGRE
Ancient Turkish city where the apostle Paul is said to have met the disciple Timothy	LYSTRA
Arthurian comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937	Prince Valiant
Author whose short story collections included Bliss and The Garden Party	Katherine Mansfield
Charlie Chaplin was Adenoid Hynkel in The ____	Great Dictator
Codename for operations by the US and allies before the combat stage of the Gulf War	Operation Desert Shield
Distinctive atmosphere, from a Latin word for “breeze”	AURA
Equally suitably	As well
Eye duct which drains aqueous humour from the anterior chamber	Schlemms canal
Feature of She Loves You by the Beatles	YEAHS
Filippo ____, Italian author of the Futurist Manifesto in 1909	MARINETTI
French novelist who wrote The Mysteries of Paris	Eugene Sue
Friends character played by Lisa Kudrow	PHOEBE
Groups of bones in the feet of vertebrates	METATARSI
Historic home of the Gordon Highlanders, formerly called Milton of Strathbogie	HUNTLY
In music, the “fundamental” or lowest note obtainable from a length of wind instrument tubing	first harmonic
Industrial city of Belarus, approximately 300 km south-east of Minsk	gomel