The Times - Specialist - January 5 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 195
CluesAnswers
"I pass, like ____, from land to land; / I have strange power of speech" (Coleridge, in The Ancient Mariner)NIGHT
"There is no ____ which is not true" (Miguel de Cervantes)PROVERB
1978 comedy film starring Clint Eastwood and an orangutan called ClydeEvery Which Way But Loose
A decomposed snail in a ginger beer bottle in 1928 led to the case which laid the foundation of laws about ____NEGLIGENCE
A large bookTOME
A name for the pan used to make a Spanish rice-based dishpaellera
A small mountain lakeTARN
A type of presenter, from a French word for "godfather"COMPERE
About 130 beats per minute, in musicALLEGRO
Actor whose first major film success was GenevieveKenneth More
Albanian warlord who ruled a near-autonomous state in the Ottoman empire based in Ioannina, visited by ByronAli Pasha
British economist David ____ developed the theory of comparative advantage about international trade, in 1817RICARDO
Charles Dickens novel divided into five "staves"A Christmas Carol
Comedian Trevor Noah took over from Jon Stewart in 2015 as presenter of The ____ on American TVDaily Show
EaracheOTALGIA
Erectile plumage or hairHACKLES
First word in the title of a long-running Jools Holland showLATER
Founder of the short-lived UK newspaper TodayEddy Shah
Having 20/10 rather than 20/20 visionsharp-sighted
Home secretary succeeded by Douglas Hurd in 1985Leon Brittan
Hydrocarbon in natural and synthetic rubbersISOPRENE
In diocese of Norwich regulations, "____s should honour the dead, comfort the living and inform posterity"EPITAPH
In US slang, to turn from a moral to an immoral lifebreak bad
In ____, (conducted) while a person is not presentABSENTIA
Machine which turns and shapes wood or metalLATHE
Madonna single released between Cherish and Dear JessieOh Father
Name used for a sight by American archerseye peep
Nursemaid employed by Europeans in colonial IndiaAYAH
Often pink-flowered relative of the primula, native to southern Europe but sometimes growing wild in southern EnglandCYCLAMEN
Persecution by billeting of intimidatory troops in a Huguenot home, used by Louis XIV in the 1680sdragonnade
Played by Race Davies, the sister of Steve, Martin Kemp's EastEnders characterJackie Owen
Portrayed on TV by Barbara Hale, Perry Mason's secretaryDella Street
Possible response to fear of civil unrest or natural disasterHOARDING
Scottish regular on Dragons' Den, 2005-2015Duncan Bannatyne
Singer whose 2007 cover of What a Wonderful World with Eva Cassidy was her first No 1 singleKatie Melua
Song by the Script, its title in the line "Maybe I'll get famous as ____"The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Star Trek android character played by Brent SpinerDATA
Tempranillo and garnacha tinta are the main grape varieties used to make this red wineRIOJA
The glossy surface of the teethENAMEL
The greatest British film of all time, according to the British Film Institute in 1999The Third Man
The most populous US city on the Rio GrandeEl Paso
The ____, a 1980 novel by Margaret Drabble, its central character a journalist called Kate ArmstrongMiddle Ground
This was founded by Aneurin Bevan in 1948National Health Service
Translation of the name created by German psychologist William Stern for the score in his tests on studentsintelligence quotient
Will Smith's usual way of addressing the head of the household in The Fresh Prince of Bel-AirUncle Phil
Word which can precede snake, roots, and widowGRASS
____ tenens, a deputy or stand-inLOCUM
____'s directorial debut was She's Gotta Have It in 1986Spike Lee

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