The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 212 Crossword Answer

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 212 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Libreville is the capital of this African country	GABON
Margaret Thatcher’s electoral successes of the 1980s were sometimes attributed to ____	essex man
Mathematical relationship often expressed as x:y	RATIO
Mathematical statement using the = sign	EQUATION
Measurement unit for duvets	TOG
Oberon and Titania are characters in this Shakespeare comedy	a midsummer night's dream
Of a computer program, corrected or improved by adding a small set of instructions	PATCHED
Plant also known as cranesbill, from the shape of its seed pods	GERANIUM
Russian satellite, literally “travelling companion”	SPUTNIK
Scottish author whose final novel was The Finishing School	Muriel Spark
SI unit of electrical charge	COULOMB
Singer who gained fame as Charlene Robinson in Neighbours	Kylie Minogue
Singer who had a 1988 hit with Twist in My Sobriety	Tanita Tikaram
Surrey town, first place attacked in The War of the Worlds	WOKING
The capital of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province	pietermaritzburg
The creator of Psmith	PG Wodehouse
The German equivalent of captain, as a military rank	HAUPTMANN
The iridescent tarnish of the mineral bornite gives rise to its informal name, “____ ore”	PEACOCK
The largest of Galway Bay’s Aran Islands	Inis Mor
The world’s longest fence was built to protect sheep from this creature	DINGO
Use of repeated random sampling to estimate a numerical result which is difficult or impossible to calculate	Monte Carlo method
Word which can precede uncle and wife	DUTCH
____ played Emma Peel in The Avengers, 1965-68	Diana Rigg
____ won the best actor Oscar for his role in Marty	Ernest Borgnine

Clues	Answers
“And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, / That not a single accent seems ____” (Byron, writing about Italian)	UNCOUTH
“And he [Jacob] ____, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven” (Genesis 28:12)	DREAMED
“Call me ____” (Betty Boothroyd, when asked how she should be addressed as speaker of the House of Commons)	MADAM
1988 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine as rival conmen	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
A concluding piece of music, or an epilogue	POSTLUDE
A pig, specifically a castrated male domesticated one	HOG
A voodoo priestess, or a Latin American dance	MAMBO
Actor who married Lauren Bacall in 1945	Humphrey Bogart
An upper class young man who is lively rather than useful	Hooray Henry
Apt to cause worry	DISQUIETING
Archbishop of York who became lord chancellor in 1475	Thomas Rotherham
Author of Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad
Be comparable or compatible	match up
Biased argument used to win rather than convey truth	special pleading
Biblical character who said “I have been a stranger in a strange land”	MOSES
Early type of machine gun, used by French forces in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71	MITRAILLEUSE
Emmanuel Chabrier’s best-known composition, a rhapsody for orchestra written after a six-month tour abroad	ESPANA
Grammar, rhetoric, and logic, as an introductory course at a medieval university	TRIVIUM
Hammond ____ wrote The Wreck of the Mary Deare	INNES
Hordeolum is the medical name for this eye inflammation	STYE
Hot drinks of port, lemon juice and spices	neguses
L’____ is a commune located in the Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris	Ile-Saint-Denis
Latin phrase meaning “pending agreement” in English	ad referendum
Latin term for a pot or urn, still used in Spanish	OLLA