The Times Specialist October 25 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 237
Clues	Answers
"A young man, of a hale ____ figure, and a giant's strength" (describing Hugh in Barnaby Rudge)	ATHLETIC
"But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so ____ to those of others" (Jerome K Jerome)	wide awake
"Pax ____" is "peace be with you" in Latin	tecum
"The wise, for cure, on ____ depend" (Dryden)	EXERCISE
"They did us a ____ meal, […] and then we thought, what do we do tonight?" (Description of VE day in the Outer Hebrides)	slap-up
1965 poetry collection by Sylvia Plath	ARIEL
1996 film in which Gwyneth Paltrow had her first cinematic leading role	EMMA
A kind of rock, or the stage name of rapper and actor O'Shea Jackson	ice cube
A major blood vessel of the lower back	lumbar artery
Alloys with low melting points	fusible metals
Almost overflowing	BRIMFUL
American artist known as "the painter of the revolution"	John Trumbull
An internet discussion group	WEBINAR
Australian Test cricketer who said of Sri Lanka's Arjuna Ranatunga "I don't like him and I'm not in a club of one"	Shane Warne
Breathing tube inserted into the windpipe after tracheotomy	CANNULA
Children's author who created the Mog picture books	Judith Kerr
Environment which promotes something (usually) unfavourable	SEEDBED
Former Play School presenter who entered the House of Lords in 2010	Floella Benjamin
French oil and gas company founded in 1924	TOTAL
Having the shape of a quadrilateral with two parallel sides	trapeziform
Household device that may be called a zapper	remote control
Identity item which, reversed, may be someone in control of access	name tag
In a manner which creates allure	ENTICINGLY
Joshua ____ founded the NDP and ZAPU parties which were banned in what was then Rhodesia	NKOMO
Lord ____ and William Ramsay received Nobel prizes in 1904 for the discovery of argon	RAYLEIGH
Member of a violent criminal gang	MOBSTER
Mount ____ is another name for K2	Godwin Austen
On a weather map, a line with semicircles and triangles	occluded front
One who enjoys fine food and drink	EPICUREAN
One who loves another intensely	ADORER
Pertaining to beekeeping	apicultural
Portia's maid in The Merchant of Venice	NERISSA
Power supply in the hands of the French?	MAINS
Proposed name for what became the research vessel RSS Sir David Attenborough	Boaty McBoatface
Psychologist who coined the term "lateral thinking"	Edward De Bono
Question often asked of someone in an inordinate hurry	where's the fire
Reduction of staff achieved by not replacing those who leave	natural wastage
Sliding control often found on a mixing desk	FADER
Song books with at least 150 numbers	PSALTERS
South Park character often seen with a paper bag over his head	Ugly Bob
The "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles" in The Winter's Tale	AUTOLYCUS
The first subject of a TV show presented by Ralph Edwards in 1955, and its presenter thereafter until his death in 1987	Eamonn Andrews
The four parameters often describing a sound in electronic music are attack, decay, ____, and release	SUSTAIN
The usual form of golf in professional play, scored by shots taken rather than holes won	stroke play
Trademark name for a widescreen cinema format	IMAX
US journalist who exclaimed "He's been shot. Lee Oswald has been shot" in 1963	Tom Pettit
Victorian polymath who invented the word "eugenics"	Francis Galton
____ became US President after the assassination of John F Kennedy	Lyndon B Johnson