The Times Specialist April 5 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 208 April 5 2020 Puzzle Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 208
Clues	Answers
“Of course, fanatical Communists and ____s generally can be respected, even if they are mistaken” (George Orwell)	RUSSOPHILE
007 is thus, as a killer	LICENSED
1.76 pints	One litre
1st Baron Tweedsmuir, governor of Canada 1935-40, who wrote Huntingtower	John Buchan
A physical exercise also called the trunk-curl	sit-up
Actress who has played Raquel Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street, and Celia’s daughter in 28D	Sarah Lancashire
Alain-Fournier’s only novel, about lost love and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood	Le Grand Meaulnes
An important form of communication for users of airports	SIGNAGE
Angry or excited	het up
BBC sports commentator at 11 summer Olympics and long-time presenter of Grandstand and A Question of Sport	David Coleman
Breathes out	EXHALES
Co-host of The One Show with Christine Bleakley, from 2007 to 2010	Adrian Chiles
Composer of Belshazzar’s Feast and Crown Imperial	WALTON
Early evening BBC TV programme mixing news, consumer affairs and light entertainment, broadcast 1969-83	NATIONWIDE
Field glasses	BINOCULARS
Flexible armour made of riveted metal rings	CHAINMAIL
Float ____ is made by the Pilkington process	GLASS
Former docklands are often sites for urban ____ projects	RENEWAL
Heavy hard-wearing fabric of coated canvas for protection from the sun, wind and rain	TARPAULIN
Host of live music TV programmes The Tube and Later… with ____	Jools Holland
In cricket, close an innings before the tenth wicket falls	DECLARE
In the Bible, the youth who received divine protection when thrown into a lions’ den	DANIEL
Leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis	TEA
Like Florence’s baptistery or Ely Cathedral’s central tower	OCTAGONAL
London thoroughfare on which the Athenaeum, the Reform Club and the Travellers Club are situated	pall mall
Member of a practically extinct US offshoot of the Quakers, practising a celibate and communal lifestyle	SHAKER
Musical term meaning “slowly”	LENTO
Our associated weekly publication about the world of books	tls
Overshadowed in importance or power	ECLIPSED
Permission from a bishop for a priest to leave a diocese to take up a new appointment elsewhere	EXEAT
Prizewinning creator of Fleabag	Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Romantic comedy about the widowed Alan Buttershaw and Celia Dawson	Last Tango in Halifax
Roped tussles often seen at county shows and the like	Tugs-of-war
Scottish landmark which Robert Louis Stevenson called “A hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design”	Arthur's Seat
Secretary of the Bank of England from 1898 to 1908 who wrote a children’s classic	Kenneth Grahame
Small, agile songbirds with black, white and pink plumage	Long-tailed tits
State capital of Wyoming	CHEYENNE
Structure, normally with slats, which protects windows from the sun in hot countries	Brise-soleil
Swiss city, the centre of Calvinism in the Reformation	GENEVA
The abbreviated name for Anglesey’s 58-lettered village	Llanfair PG
The elected chief of the stranded boys in Lord of the Flies	RALPH
The raft which was sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947	Kon-Tiki
The seventh consecutive UK No 1 hit for the Beatles on the Parlophone label, and their first track lasting more than three minutes	ticket to ride
To an American, this would be romaine	Cos lettuce
Tree whose dark purple “berries” are strictly seed cones	JUNIPER
Vermouth, pastis, or dry sherry, for example	APERITIF