The Times Specialist March 22 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 206
Clues	Answers
"I maintain that the phrase, a 'long poem' is simply a flat ____" (Edgar Allan Poe)	contradiction in terms
18th-century publication for which Benjamin Franklin adopted a pseudonym	Poor Richards Almanack
2015 David Baldacci novel which introduced detective Amos Decker	Memory Man
A brightly coloured tropical freshwater fish, often kept in aquariums	TETRA
A co-star of 10D in the "Ocean's" film franchise	Brad Pitt
Abalone of the Channel Islands	ORMER
Actor who played Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It	Christopher Eccleston
Actor who played Terry Duckworth in Coronation Street	Nigel Pivaro
Actress nominated for an Oscar for her first film role, Alexandra Feodorovna in Nicholas and Alexandra	Janet Suzman
An artist's stand	EASEL
Another name for a cataract (optical) condition)	pearl-eye
Another name for Alces alces, which in British English is sometimes called "elk"	MOOSE
Band whose debut single Go Now was their only No 1 hit	Moody Blues
British reggae band of the 1970s and early 1980s, originally fronted by Ted Dixon	matumbi
Canvas canopies often attached to shop fronts or caravans	AWNINGS
Clothing chain founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher	GAP
Collective noun for owls	PARLIAMENT
District of north London between New Southgate and Woodside Park	Friern Barnet
English winner of the decathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games	Dean Macey
Former makers of bits, spurs and other small metalware (spelling with M)	lorimers
Free of nervous agitation	unflustered
Garden plant with pink flowers and silver woolly foliage	rose campion
Ghostly	SPECTRAL
Large Pacific Ocean eel, with dark brown circles around most of the iris	ringeye conger
Level 42's first appearance on Top of the Pops was with this 1981 single	Love Games
Name used in the US for the Electric Light Orchestra's debut album, as a result of misunderstood phone call records	No Answer
Nikolai ____ wrote Taras Bulba	GOGOL
Obsessive self-centredness	EGOMANIA
Path followed by an airborne body under the influence of forces including gravity	TRAJECTORY
Pen named after its Hungarian designer	BIRO
Play thought to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and George Wilkins	Pericles Prince of Tyre
Pregnant, colloquially	in the club
Scotland's A70 road runs from Edinburgh to ___	AYR
Spanish cheese made with ewe's milk	MANCHEGO
Spanish tennis player who won two grand-slam doubles titles with Emilio Sanchez	Sergio Casal
Stage name of the singer born Anna Mae Bullock	Tina Turner
That which, in rugby union, is always worth seven points	penalty try
The 1392 Statute of ____, limiting papal power in England, was later exploited by Henry VIII, eg against Wolsey	praemunire
The Dying Swan was created for this ballerina	Anna Pavlova
The largest province of South Africa	Northern Cape
The lord chancellor is keeper of the ____	great seal
The most populous of New York City's five boroughs	BROOKLYN
Type of bridge restricted to pedestrian traffic	ROPE
US actor who came to prominence as Dr Doug Ross in ER	George Clooney
Vietnam's capital	HANOI
____ played Lorna Cole in two of the Lethal Weapon films	Rene Russo