The Times Specialist March 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 207
Clues	Answers
1970s ITV sitcom starring Bill Maynard as the title character, an incompetent council labourer in Yorkshire	Oh No Its Selwyn Froggitt
1982 Dire Straits single, from the album Love Over Gold	Private Investigations
2014 documentary film about obesity with the tagline “Congress says pizza is a vegetable”	fed up
A large marine food fish or a fruit of the West Indies	TUNA
A rectangle which is not a square	OBLONG
A type of open-air refreshment area	tea garden
Ancient British and Irish writing system with an alphabet called the Beith-luis-nin	OGHAM
Another name for the so-called “honey badger”	RATEL
Author, one of whose works is celebrated with a statue in the water by the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen	Hans Christian Andersen
Body material other than bone or cartilage	soft tissue
Business magnate who appeared as himself in Doctor Who and a special episode of EastEnders	Alan Sugar
Capitale della regione Campania	NAPOLI
Captains ____ is a Kipling novel on which a 1937 MGM film was based	COURAGEOUS
Checks on a business carried out by a prospective buyer	due diligence
Consisting of crumb-like particles	GRANULOSE
Dialect spoken in and around Liverpool	SCOUSE
Either of two outside front-row forwards supporting the hooker in rugby	PROP
Excel in aeronautical skill	outfly
Fictional guitarist whose amplifier volume knob goes up to 11	Nigel Tufnel
Former BBC2 late night music show, originally commissioned by David Attenborough	The Old Grey Whistle Test
Frank ____, winner of the 1972 Olympic marathon, has an ironic surname for a long distance runner	SHORTER
Gathered together by prior arrangement	met up
Goon show character described by Neddy Seagoon as “the nearest thing I had seen to a human being without actually being one”	ECCLES
Informally, 100 dollar bills	C-notes
Informally, 2000-2009 were the ____	NOUGHTIES
Menial work for soldiers, sometimes as a punishment	FATIGUES
More likely to show anxiety	stressier
Official title of Victoria, heir apparent to the throne of King Carl XVI Gustaf	Crown Princess of Sweden
On a map, this might show Hawaii or the Shetland Islands	INSET
One common name for a small plant of Alpine meadows, rare in northern Europe but found in the Upper Teesdale site of special scientific interest	blue gentian
One who seeks to disrupt certain blood sports	hunt saboteur
Organised rebellions	insurgences
Out	not at home
Person to person encounter in a police station or TV studio	INTERVIEW
Publishers of the Good Beer Guide	CAMRA
Seaside resort on the Creuddyn peninsula	LLANDUDNO
Shadow defence secretary sacked by Edward Heath in 1968 after a notorious speech	Enoch Powell
Social insect in a moving colony rather than a built nest	army ant
Suggest something, or assume it as the basis for an argument	POSIT
Terminate a phone call or electricity supply	cut off
The eleven bets in a Yankee include four ____s	TREBLE
The Fifth Column and the ____ is an anthology of Ernest Hemingway writings	First Forty-Nine Stories
The largest city on the River Tagus, as it flows through Spain	TOLEDO
The last two times Great Britain won this sporting prize were in 1936 and 2015	Davis Cup
The upward arching main part of your foot	INSTEP
____ Doll is a jazz standard written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn	SATIN