The Times - Specialist - June 7 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 217
Clues	Answers
'I saw the hideous phantasm of a man […], stir with an ____, half vital motion' (Mary Shelley in Frankenstein)	UNEASY
200m bronze medallist at the 1968 Olympics, noted for a medal ceremony Black Power salute with Tommie Smith	John Carlos
A general feeling of pessimism	gloom and doom
A gesture of triumph with a clenched fist	air punch
A member of the zoological family Giraffidae	OKAPI
A plant considered harmful, often controlled by regulations	noxious weed
A rib	COSTA
A senior priest	PRELATE
An alternative name for the Holocene epoch in geology	RECENT
Anita ____’s first novel, in 1981, was A Start in Life	BROOKNER
Army officer who led the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition	John Hunt
Britain’s best-known ____ is kept at Hereford Cathedral	Mappa Mundi
Canadian winner of three world darts championships, who commentated on others for the BBC, 1995-2007	John Part
Chablis is made from this grape variety	CHARDONNAY
Colleague of James Ivory as a film producer and director	Ismail Merchant
Contemporary folk singer who recorded her first album in 1960 and her most recent in 2018	Joan Baez
Description of all petrol sold in Britain since January 1, 2000	lead-free
Dried fruits and nuts eaten as snack food by hikers	trail mix
English translation of “ceteris paribus”	other things being equal
Fee for sitting at a restaurant table	cover charge
Fictional astronaut created by David Bowie	major Tom
Finely minced pork mixed with cereal, often sold in tins	luncheon meat
Guaranteed to succeed	nailed on
Informally, the Palazzo Santa Sofia on Venice’s Grand Canal	Ca d'Oro
Informally, the raiser of more than £32 million for NHS Charities Together	captain Tom
Island just off the Ross of Mull	IONA
Jerome ____ wrote songs including Ol’ Man River and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	KERN
Joint of meat containing the backbone	CHINE
Last word in a telegramese sentence	STOP
Latin for “purchaser”, used in a proverbial phrase	EMPTOR
Musical instrument invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori, around 1700	PIANO
Musical performance by a soloist or small group	RECITAL
Omit (a sound or syllable) in speech	ELIDE
Short-lived British abstract style of modern art, named by Ezra Pound who contributed to its 1914 manifesto	vorticism
Small case hung from an obi in traditional Japanese dress	INRO
Southern pacific boat, often with an outrigger and triangular sail	PROA
Staying calm in a difficult situation	not turning a hair
The only presenter of Channel 4’s Grand Designs series	Kevin McCloud
This type of decoration may be champlevé or cloisonné	enamelling
Traditional name for a work of embroidery supposedly commissioned by Bishop Odo in the 1070s	Bayeux Tapestry
TV talent show first shown in 2004	The X Factor
Twelve famous faces seen on A Question of Sport	Picture Board
Type of board used with a planchette	OUIJA
Very small, especially as a description of a person	pint-size
Welsh comedian Max Boyce’s catchphrase	I Was There
____ banknotes and coins were first used on January 1, 2002	EURO
____ came to fame as the awkward West Midlander Barry Taylor in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	Timothy Spall
____ coached 1964 Olympic long jump champion Lynn Davies, and later presented the TV show We Are the Champions	Ron Pickering
____ Investigates was a 1990s BBC crime drama series starring Patricia Routledge	Hetty Wainthropp
____ was the Cadbury’s rival of the Mars bar, 1967-78	AZTEC