The Times - Specialist - Crossword Answers September 13 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 231
Clues	Answers
“E pluribus unum” means “____, one”	out of many
“The whole ____ and caboodle” means “everything”	KIT
“____, I smell the blood of an Englishman”	fee-fi-fo-fum
A list showing every use of a significant word in a text, especially the Bible	CONCORDANCE
A Middle Eastern British Crown Colony, 1937-63	ADEN
A right enjoyed to limited use of a neighbour’s land, often to cross it to reach one’s own property	EASEMENT
A washed-rind cow’s milk cheese made in northern Italy	FONTINA
Actor whose roles include that of Beria in Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin	Simon Russell Beale
An archaic alternative to “sculptors”	STATUARIES
Another name for the puma	COUGAR
Argentinian city in which the country’s flag was first raised, by General Manuel Belgrano	ROSARIO
Cartoonist for The Sunday Times, 1967-2017	Gerald Scarfe
Elgar’s Opus 36 is popularly known as the ____ Variations	ENIGMA
Englishman who wrote Studies in the Psychology of Sex	Havelock Ellis
Expression of contempt or exasperation, thought to derive from French	BAH
Fabric gathered to make an ornamental frill	RUFFLE
Former Coronation Street character played by Lynne Perrie	Ivy Tilsley
French term for an intelligent and cultured male	homme d'esprit
French-born winner of the best actress Oscar in 1935, for It Happened One Night, in which she starred with Clark Gable	Claudette Colbert
In the 1990s, Paul ____ played for Manchester United, Inter Milan and Liverpool	INCE
In the British Army, ____s include bombardiers	NCO
Informally, an unpleasant smell	NIFF
Informally, one interested in stars, UFOs, aircraft etc	skywatcher
Italian astronomer, the first to study stars with a telescope	Galileo Galilei
Mexican state which contains the port city of Boca del Rio	VERACRUZ
Molecules of ____ dyes have two adjacent nitrogen atoms between carbon atoms	AZO
Mother wit	horse sense
One name for the electrical discharge which travels along an axon	neural impulse
One of the world’s biggest fjord systems, on the east coast of Greenland	Scoresby Sound
Optical illusion in which a box shape appears to have two possible orientations	Necker cube
Oxfordshire market town, birthplace of Alfred the Great	WANTAGE
Pakistan’s largest city	KARACHI
Pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen	Isak Dinesen
Producing double refraction	birefringent
Roy ____’s topical sketch show on BBC Radio Two ran from 1975 to 2001	hudd
Scandinavian composer whose fourth symphony includes a “battle” between two timpanists	NIELSEN
Short tubes on the end of shoelaces	AGLETS
Silkworms which produce a coarse, fawn-coloured silk	TUSSORES
The cup in the Eucharistic prayer	holy grail
The dog in series 2-5 of Downton Abbey	ISIS
The type of bowling for which Edgar Willsher was no-balled six times in a match at the Oval in 1862	OVERARM
The ____ is familiarly known as the Quakers	Society of Friends
Those who behave ostentatiously to attract attention	show-offs
Time interval defined in terms of caesium-133 radiation frequency	atomic second
To celebrate lavishly, especially on the return of a prodigal	kill the fatted calf
Town of Caithness and the river it straddles	WICK
US cult leader who was jailed for life in 1971, and died in 2017	Charles Manson
What Christ taught in Matthew vi, 9-13 and Luke xi, 2-4	the Lord's Prayer