March 3 2019 The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 151 Puzzle Solution

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 151 Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
'I could ____ a Mandrake Restorative Draught in my sleep' (Lockhart, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)	whip up
'The answer to this is carefully' (Delia Smith on How to ____)	boil an egg
2007 Disney film combining live action filming, traditional animation and CGI	ENCHANTED
Children's Literature: Series created by Dr Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham	beginner Books
Classical Literature: In Terence's play The ____, the title character is a present from Phaedria to Thais	EUNUCH
English Literature: Scriptwriter who created the Daleks	terry Nation
Food: Writer given most credit for leading British tastes in a new direction, from the 1950s onwards	elizabeth David
Music: Paired percussion instrument created in Cuba, around 1900	BONGOS
The Bible: In St Paul's writing, a charismatic preacher	APOSTLE
The English Language: George Bernard Shaw said there were touches of the philologist and phonetician Henry ____ in Pygmalion	SWEET
A Great Highland ____ usually has three drones	BAGPIPE
A ____ is intended to keep rain out of a tent	storm flap
Alloy of lead, tin and antimony, developed by Gutenberg	type metal
Alloy, usually not including the second metal in its name	nickel silver
Ancient alphabet of the British Isles, now only visible on stone monuments	OGAM
Australian informal expression for 'unimpressive' — a British equivalent with one letter inserted	not much chop
Author of the 1947 novel Under the Volcano	Malcolm Lowry
Avenue where the Tour de France has finished since 1975	Champs-Elysees
Behaving arrogantly or condescendingly	on one's high horse
Clothing design technique popularised in the late 1960s	tie-dye
Drug called diamorphine when prescribed for pain relief	HEROIN
Female badgers	SOWS
Foodstuff also known as hardtack	ship's biscuit
Full, especially with food	REPLETE
Highlight of music hall performances by Wilson, Keppel and Betty	sand dance

Clues	Answers
In 2008, Paul ____ became the first black British manager in England’s top football division	INCE
In Greek myth, Apollo's twin sister	ARTEMIS
In Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates's ____	NIECE
Informally, an athlete like Emil Zatopek or Mo Farah	distance runner
Italics in clues indicate one of the seven ____ books owned by today's setter, as a source of the Q and A	oxford Companion
Items offered on Gumtree are often '____'	in good condition
Labour party leader between Lansbury and Gaitskell	ATTLEE
Large shopping centre just off the M25 near Dartford	bluewater
Marine arthropod often seen in fossil form	TRILOBITE
One who gives up easily	DEFEATIST
Poet like Pindar or Horace	ODIST
Possible part of the process of solving a crossword clue	aha moment
Ruling family in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy	GROAN
Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is mostly set in ____	PADUA
Showjumper Richard ____ won three Olympic gold medals	MEADE
Sign that an exchange is ready to initiate a phone call	dialling tone
The beautiful witch in the 1964-72 TV sitcom Bewitched	SAMANTHA
The lingua franca of the Hanseatic League	Middle Low German
This pass was the scene of a battle between Persians and outnumbered Greeks	THERMOPYLAE
Weight redistribution device used in winter walks	SNOWSHOE
William Ralph ____, Dean of St Paul's cathedral, was nominated three times for the Nobel prize for literature	INGE
____ at End House is the sixth Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot	PERIL
____ Elkins was the eponymous character in a 1960s film	ALFIE
____ particles include neutrinos and bosons	SUBATOMIC
____ played male and female school heads in 1950s British comedy films	Alastair Sim