The Times Specialist November 29 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

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Clues	Answers
“And of course, I always admired a man who wears ____” (David Bowie, of Freddie Mercury)	TIGHTS
“Ay me! what perils do ____ / The man that meddles with cold iron!” (Hudibras, Samuel Butler)	ENVIRON
“Stupendous, miraculous, ____ / A child to stagger and flabbergast” (Ogden Nash)	UNSURPASSED
1960s and 1970s rock band, fronted by Jim Morrison	The Doors
1963 comedy film based on a stage musical by Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort	Irma La Douce
1973 album by Jackson Heights	Bump 'n' Grind
1976 horror film starring Lynne Frederick as figure skater Samantha Gray	SCHIZO
1986 Queen album, their first to be digitally recorded	A Kind Of Magic
A collective noun for whales	GAM
A lake, often used in the names of those in the Lake District	MERE
Actress who plays Kathy Beale in EastEnders	Gillian Taylforth
American baseball player who retired in 1928 but still has the highest ever career batting average	Ty Cobb
An error requiring attention, especially in a printed book	CORRIGENDUM
Belgian city, a centre of medieval cloth manufacture	GHENT
Bulgaria’s most successful male tennis player, junior champion at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2008	Grigor Dimitrov
Canadian stand-up comedian noted for his one-liners	Stewart Francis
Character in Tom Brown’s School Days, basis for a series of novels by GM Fraser	FLASHMAN
Danish explorer after whom a strait, island, sea, glacier and land bridge are named	Vitus Bering
Duet sung by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson on the 1984 concept album version of the musical Chess	I Know Him So Well
English soprano, best known for singing Brunnhilde in the 1970s ENO Ring Cycle conducted by Reginald Goodall	Rita Hunter
Gina Haspel is the current director of this American organisation	CIA
Heraldic device which represents the Order of St John	Maltese cross
In Judaism, the seven days of mourning after a funeral	SHIVA
Informal name for rabies, from its best-known symptom	HYDROPHOBIA
Japan’s last shogunate, ending in 1867	TOKUGAWA
Leontes, King of Sicily, is a central character in this Shakespeare play	The Winter's Tale
Main presenter of BBC News at Ten	Huw Edwards
Major Egyptian god, often depicted with green skin	OSIRIS
More perilous	RISKIER
Mythical horse in tales from the chansons de geste	BAYARD
Plant which has been produced by selective breeding	CULTIVAR
Popular name for the knifehand strike in martial arts	karate chop
Potassium nitrate, often used as a preservative	SALTPETRE
Prefix denoting “all”	OMNI
Presented again but with no worthwhile improvement	REHASHED
Print issued by William Hogarth in 1751 as a negative alternative to Beer Street	Gin Lane
Russian author of Dead Souls	Nikolai Gogol
The capital of Armenia	YEREVAN
The pet dog of Charlie Brown	SNOOPY
The small black fruits of Ilex glabra, a North American form of holly	inkberries
The sort of call which warns of potential difficulty	wake-up
The ubiquitous garden pest, historically Helix aspersa but now Cornu aspersum	brown snail
The ____ was a BBC radio sitcom aboard HMS Troutbridge	Navy Lark
Traditional accompaniment to fish and chips	mushy peas
Welsh artist, a leading British portraitist in the 1920s	Augustus John
Wife and comedy partner of George Burns	Gracie Allen
Wilbur Smith’s debut novel, which introduced the Courtney family	When the Lion Feeds
____ Downfall is the Peak District’s highest waterfall	KINDER