The Times - Specialist - July 5 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 221
Clues	Answers
“Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure / As the ____ lily, I protest” (Love’s Labours Lost)	UNSULLIED
“The firm, the ____, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue” (Confucius)	ENDURING
“The ____ is a bad guesser” (Thomas De Quincey)	PUBLIC
A French-based name for one talking pretentious nonsense	blagueur
A neuron	nerve cell
A short supporting timber; a cask; a pointed tool	PUNCHEON
Actor renowned for his role as Spock in Star Trek	Leonard Nimoy
An article of food, usually pluralised to mean food generally	VIAND
An infatuation, from French for a throat obstruction	ENGOUEMENT
Austrian physician noted for his use of hypnosis	Franz Mesmer
Author of Out of Africa	Karen Blixen
British public transport group active from 1994 to 2002	railtrack
Canadian snooker player beaten in a 1997 world championship semi-final by the eventual champion Ken Doherty	Alain Robidoux
Clarified butter often made from buffalo milk	GHEE
Co-founder, with Malcolm Sargent, of the London Philharmonic Orchestra	Thomas Beecham
Comic actor who said his requirements were “A park, a policeman and a pretty girl”	Charlie Chaplin
East Midlands town where production of Carlsberg’s Special Brew started in the 1950s	NORTHAMPTON
Food show host and author of How to Eat	Nigella Lawson
Former “Bake Off” winner who made the Queen’s 90th birthday cake	Nadiya Hussain
In ’Allo ’Allo, the French resistance leader played by Kirsten Cooke	Michelle Dubois
In a ____ movement, two separate military forces converge on an enemy	PINCER
Island group formerly known as the New Hebrides	VANUATU
Lily the Pink was a 1968 hit for the ____	SCAFFOLD
Low hills of sand	DUNES
Magnesium sulphate is also known as ____ salts	EPSOM
Member of the nightshade family reputed to shriek when uprooted	MANDRAKE
MP for Birmingham Ladywood 1983-2010	Clare Short
Musician and producer whose consecutive albums Play and 18 both reached No 1 in the UK charts	MOBY
Norway’s prime minister since 2013	Erna Solberg
Of medicine, acting by absorption after application to the skin	ENDERMIC
Old term for an attic or garret	sky parlour
One of the original Coronation Street characters, played by Pat Phoenix	Elsie Tanner
One who fears open spaces	AGORAPHOBE
Period of heat in female animals	OESTRUS
Pungent material which can be synthetically derived from turpentine	CAMPHOR
Stars whose brightness suddenly increases before gradually fading	NOVAE
The first English tennis player to reach a Wimbledon semi-final after Roger Taylor in 1973	Tim Henman
The first performance of a play or showing of a film	PREMIERE
The fish hawk	OSPREY
The Los Angeles ____ have won 16 NBA championships	LAKERS
The man who Jesus raised from the dead	LAZARUS
The state of being foul or disgusting	REPULSIVENESS
Those who sacked Rome in AD455	VANDALS
US actress born Mary Collins	Bo Derek
Walking stick made from a dwarf palm’s stem	Penang lawyer
What may be indicated by an upside-down flag	DISTRESS
____ depicted Stalinism, more realistically than most Soviet writers, in The Thaw	Ilya Ehrenburg
____ played goth teenager Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice	Winona Ryder