The Times - Specialist - Sunday July 26 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 224
Clues	Answers
“She had the ____ precocity of poverty” (Thackeray, describing Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair)	DISMAL
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a ____” (Henry IV, Part 2)	CROWN
A ballet step	PAS
A ____ may use colours or shading to show land elevation	relief map
American actress who is the daughter of Judy Garland	Liza Minnelli
An alternative name for yarn bombing	guerilla knitting
An organ stop imitating the sound of a flute	CLARABELLA
Another name for the gloaming in which one may roam	half-light
Area between the soft palate and the base of the skull	nasopharynx
Bankrupt	trade-fallen
Bernard ____ played M in eleven Bond films	LEE
British winner of breaststroke gold at the 2016 Olympics	Adam Peaty
Decorative knot, often made around a cylinder	Turks head
Document listing 80 heresies, issued by the Holy See in 1864	Syllabus of Errors
Down under, a sleeve keeping one’s beer cold	stubby holder
Forename apparently created by a misspelling in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline	IMOGEN
Former Australian rock band fronted by Michael Hutchence	INXS
Former department store on the east side of Moscow’s Red Square	GUM
Former rock band fronted by Michael Stipe	REM
Germany’s largest port	HAMBURG
Grandson of Titus in Titus Andronicus	Young Lucius
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, a curate and friend of Holofernes	Sir Nathaniel
In the Book of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and ____ are thrown into the fiery furnace	ABEDNEGO
Irish type of ring, usually with two hands embracing a heart	claddagh
Iron ____ is often called “fool’s gold”	PYRITES
Italy’s third-largest city (after Roma and Milano)	NAPOLI
Links between historic structures, discovered or invented by Alfred Watkins in the 1920s	ley lines
Main antagonist of The Jungle Book	shere khan
Masculine urban dweller, often with a beard and check shirt	lumbersexual
Name for a complex situation, coined by Walter Scott in his epic poem Marmion	a tangled web
Newspaper department which deals with business news	city desk
Paramaribo is the capital of this former Dutch colony	SURINAME
Played by Dustin Hoffman, Michael Dorsey’s alter ego in the 1982 film Tootsie	Dorothy Michaels
Popular name of the gardener and BBC presenter closely associated with the Dig for Victory campaign during the Second World War	Mr Middleton
Powerful males in an organisation, exercising anonymous influence	men in suits
Ridged pasta tubes with square-cut ends	RIGATONI
Semi-precious form of chalcedony with bands of colour	ONYX
Ted ____ led the UK’s best-known big band in the 1950s	HEATH
Text and images designed for display on web pages	e-content
The highest grade of olive oil	extra virgin
The main product of Bärenreiter and Stainer & Bell	sheet music
The normal stance for a left-handed boxer	SOUTHPAW
The Ring nebula can be seen in this constellation	LYRA
The second explosive invented by Alfred Nobel, in 1875	GELIGNITE
The third power of a number	CUBE
To go out and enjoy oneself flamboyantly	paint the town red
Vlad III, 15th-century voivode of Wallachia, was “the ____”	IMPALER
Volume of air in a container mainly holding liquid	ULLAGE
West Midlands motor manufacturer which became part of the Rootes Group in 1935	SUNBEAM
____ became the first female chairman of the Conservative party in 2002	Theresa May