The Times - Specialist - October 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 234
Clues	Answers
“I humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry meeting may be wished, God ____ it!” (Much Ado About Nothing)	PROHIBIT
“Our happiest moments are spent trying to ____ new varieties of victimhood” (JG Ballard)	think up
“Royally? Why, it ____ no king?” (Richard II)	CONTAINS
1945 children’s novel by E B White, adapted as a partly animated film in 1999	Stuart Little
1987 Wim Wenders film about immortal angels in Berlin	Wings Of Desire
A genus of succulent plants with thick tapering leaves	ALOE
A name for the House of Lords	Gilded Chamber
A West Indian gang member	YARDIE
According to a blue plaque on ____, it was the site of the world’s first regular high definition TV broadcasts, in 1936	Alexandra Palace
Along with Walking Tune and Mock Morris, Handel in ____ was one of Percy Grainger’s “Room-music tit-bits”	the Strand
Any organic compound containing the divalent radical –CO.NH.CO.–	IMIDE
Archaically, a bottomless pit	ABYSM
Became swollen	tumesced
Brothers and sisters	SIBLINGS
Building material made with earth, water and organic material such as straw	ADOBE
Canadian comedian who presents the BBC Two reality series Hair	Katherine Ryan
Casual clothing	LEISUREWEAR
Cigarette brand, a sponsor of the former Equipe Ligier Formula One team	GITANES
Coastal town, south of Cardiff, once known as the Garden by the Sea	PENARTH
Director of Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet
Extemporised remarks	ad-libs
First name of the central character in The Last of The Mohicans	NATHANIEL
Former statute which excluded women from succession to the French crown	Salic law
Francis Xavier ____ is the protagonist of four comic novels by Anthony Burgess	ENDERBY
General of the Volscian army in Coriolanus	Tullus Aufidius
Geological theory which made Alfred Wegener’s concept of continental drift widely accepted	plate tectonics
Himalayan region, also called Little Tibet, to the south of K2	baltistan
Iconic Star Wars line delivered by Obi-Wan Kenobi	use the force Luke
Informally, in a helpless position	over a barrel
Of a cow, pregnant	in calf
Of a nerve, conveying impulses towards the brain or spinal column	afferent
One who has abandoned their religion	APOSTATE
Opening track of the Beatles album Abbey Road	Come Together
Poetic word for a male lover or suitor	SWAIN
Presenter of BBC News at Six since 2003	George Alagiah
Short railway tracks used for shunting or storage	SIDINGS
Soviet Russia’s news agency, created in 1925	TASS
Sykurmolarnir, the group which launched the career of Björk	The Sugarcubes
Tennyson’s name for cicadas, apparently a mistranslation from German	balm-crickets
The extreme sport of jumping into the sea from a cliff	tombstoning
The penultimate collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan	Utopia Limited
The quality of being meagre or scarce	EXIGUITY
The ____ is also known as Custer’s Last Stand	Battle of Little Bighorn
Those which consisted of ten asses in ancient Rome	DENARII
To succeed, or to bribe	pay off
Traditional Christmas desserts	plum puddings