The Times - Specialist - September 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 233 September 27 2020 Crossword Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 233
CluesAnswers
"If […] I am an optimist, my ____ to the creed of optimism is worth hearing" (Helen Keller)TESTIMONY
"The Red One", a famous Moorish palace in GranadaALHAMBRA
1959 mystery novel by Muriel Sparkmemento mori
1992 No 1 hit for Shakespears SisterSTAY
A fold pressed or sewn in fabricPLEAT
A form of paramnesiadeja vu
A protein acting as a catalyst in biochemical reactionsENZYME
According to polls, nearly half of Serbia's football fans support ____ Belgradered star
Actor who played Sebastian alongside Florence Pugh in the 2016 film Lady MacbethCosmo Jarvis
Also known as the Amidah, central prayer of the Jewish liturgyShemoneh Esreh
An official language of PakistanURDU
Author of The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
CerumenEARWAX
February 6 in New ZealandWaitangi Day
Fermented soya bean paste, the base for a Japanese soupMISO
First philosopher mentioned in Monty Python's "Bruces' Song"Immanuel Kant
Former game show with nine contestants usually in apparent cuboid compartmentsCelebrity Squares
French term for a duty or educational exerciseDEVOIR
Grasshopper or cricket, for exampleORTHOPTERAN
Group which had a 1970 hit with Knock Three TimesDAWN
Illuminated manuscript version of the four Gospels, housed at Trinity College Library in DublinBook of Kells
In anatomy, the opposite of distalPROXIMAL
In Spanish-speaking countries, a motorwayAUTOPISTA
In the House of Commons, an MP who does not hold officeBACKBENCHER
Informally, the Beethoven symphony performed in this year's first live Prom on August 28EROICA
James McConville is the US Army's current ____Chief of Staff
Jim Parsons plays ____ Cooper in The Big Bang TheorySHELDON
Lakeland fell which became Kanchenjunga in a Swallows and Amazons novel by Arthur RansomeOld Man of Coniston
Largest city located on the River Weser in GermanyBREMEN
Organisation offering training and certification in divingpadi
Part of an insect's body which bears the wings and legsTHORAX
Pasta is usually made from this variety of wheatDURUM
Piece of writing which excludes one or more letters of the alphabetLIPOGRAM
Race devised for the first modern Olympics in 1896MARATHON
Racecourses of ancient Rome and GreeceHIPPODROMES
Satirist described by Stephen Fry as "The funniest man who ever drew breath"Peter Cook
Something which provides guidance (originally a name for the Pole Star)CYNOSURE
The "Doc" played by Christopher Lloyd in the Back to the Future filmsEmmett Brown
The "Lion of Punjab", a Sikh empire leader of the early 19th centuryRanjit Singh
The cause of glandular feverEpstein-Barr virus
The study of word originsETYMOLOGY
Three-verse poem by Byron, inspired by Anne Beatrix Wilmot, his cousin's wifeShe Walks in Beauty
To encounter, usually unexpectedlyrun into
To obtain something (typically money) by force or threatEXTORT
Torgau, where US and Soviet forces met on April 25, 1945, stands on this riverELBE
With Brutus, Sicinius ____ plots the downfall of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's playvelutus
Wood which was the reason for the creation of British Honduras as a colonyMAHOGANY

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