The Times Specialist April 26 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 211
Clues	Answers
"Good afternoon. Shouldn't you be at work?" (Des ____, introducing TV coverage of an England World Cup match)	LYNAM
"That's easy" or "It doesn't matter"	no sweat
"Valued for their racemes of foxglove-like flowers, ____s are elegant and reliable border perennials" (RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers)	PENSTEMON
13th-century Earl of Leicester who led baronial opposition to Henry III and was briefly the de facto ruler of England	Simon de Montfort
17th-century Spanish painter noted for his portraits (spelling with no 's')	Diego Velazquez
1972 film about a public schoolboy who became a cavalry officer, war correspondent and MP	Young Winston
1988 film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, which won four Oscars including best picture	rain man
1990s BBC comedy series starring Dawn French in crime and thriller parodies	Murder Most Horrid
A mountainside mass of loose stones	SCREE
A name for diesel fuel, derived from an acronym	DERV
A North American tribe or confederation of tribes	NATION
A pinkish semi-precious stone	rose quartz
A sun lounge or greenhouse on the side of a house	CONSERVATORY
A ____ story is often one about human kindness	HEARTWARMING
An inducement to accept a deal	SWEETENER
Beef shoulder or brisket, cured, spiced, smoked and steamed	PASTRAMI
Body of land between Cardigan and Caernarfon bays	Lleyn Peninsula
Body part, of cephalopod molluscs such as squid	ink-sac
British winner of best actress Oscars for Howards End and Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson
Caramel-like cheese made partly or wholly from goat's milk	GJETOST
Component in electronics, producing a false result when all inputs are true	NAND gate
Football club whose first shirt sponsor was the Japanese electronics company Sharp, for 18 seasons starting with 1982-83	Manchester United
If you ____ something, you made it feasible or likelier	paved the way for
In 1937 a ____ replaced Britannia on the reverse side of farthings	WREN
In British usage, the object of this verb is nearly always a flint	KNAP
In geometry, a transformation with no change in shape or size, such as rotation	ISOMETRY
In Greek myth, a mountain nymph	OREAD
Joseph ____ wrote the poem "Stille Nacht" for which Franz Gruber wrote a melody and guitar accompaniment in 1818	MOHR
Kind of memory normally used for computer firmware	read-only
Latin for "hail" or "welcome"	SALVE
Port in southwest Finland, the capital city before Helsinki	TURKU
Representing expectations rather than reality	on paper
Someone involved in crime and/or violence	HOODLUM
Someone who wants power or wrongly thinks they have it	MEGALOMANIAC
Standard of comparison used to check experimental results	CONTROL
The apposite nickname of an American folk artist who was born in 1860 and died in 1961	grandma moses
The best-known exponent of Catalan modernism	Antonio Gaudi
The capital and largest city of Chad	N'Djamena
The only Briton to win gold in an Olympic javelin final	Tessa Sanderson
The planet orbited by the Cassini probe from 2004 to 2017	SATURN
The protagonist in Thomas Hardy's final novel	Jude Fawley
The third pharaoh of Egypt's 19th dynasty	Rameses the Great
The world's longest river flowing into an inland body of water rather than the sea	VOLGA
Tomas de Torquemada was Spain's first Grand ____	INQUISITOR
Victorian overcoat, with a shorter cape than an Inverness	ULSTER
What some people do with espresso and paella	MISPRONOUNCE
Word such as "bagel", "chutzpah", or "mensch"	YIDDISHISM
____ spectabilis is better known as bleeding heart	DICENTRA