The Times Specialist December 27 2020 Crossword Answers

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 246
Clues	Answers
"A scholar knows no ____" (Jean Paul Richter)	ENNUI
"The King of Rock 'n' Roll" was also called ____	Elvis The Pelvis
"The law which attempts a man's life is ____, unjust, inadmissible" (Marquis de Sade, on capital punishment)	IMPRACTICAL
"The most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world"	BAGPUSS
"____ on its stomach" means workers can only function effectively if well fed	an army marches
1960s sitcom starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes	The Likely Lads
1A takes place on ____	The Feast of Stephen
A Christmas carol	Good King Wenceslas
A churchyard or burial ground	God's acre
A daughter of a sibling	NIECE
A male friend, to a French speaker	AMI
A seasonal name for Schlumbergera x buckleyi	Christmas cactus
Acronym sometimes seen on a love letter envelope	swalk
Activity of the poor man encountered in the first verse of 1A	gathering winter fuel
Actress who starred as Laurie Strode in the Halloween films	Jamie Lee Curtis
American actress who voices Bart Simpson	Nancy Cartwright
An important source of nutrition for large whales	KRILL
Another name for the mackerel shark	PORBEAGLE
Archbishop of Canterbury whose 1982 Christmas sermon criticised planning for the "lunatic unthinkable" of nuclear war	Robert Runcie
Broadcaster who created That Was The Week That Was	Ned Sherrin
Columbus is the capital of this US State	OHIO
Creator of the soap opera Crossroads	Reg Watson
December 21st, this year, in the northern hemisphere	MIDWINTER
Decoration often seen on top of a Christmas tree	ANGEL
Dissemination of political doctrine, typically through the arts	AGITPROP
Foo Fighters single of 2005, follow-up to Best of You	DOA
For two years, Walt Whitman edited The ____, once the USA's most popular afternoon newspaper	Brooklyn Eagle
Former Indian coin, one sixteenth of a rupee	ANNA
Historically, ____ and terminer was a type of court hearing	OYER
Home secretary 2016-2018	Amber Rudd
In computing, a backup of old files or versions	ARCHIVE
In some traditions, a piece of this is taken outside on New Year's Eve	COAL
In the English version of this game, the total value of tiles is 187	SCRABBLE
ITV sitcom which reprised a lead character in Man About the House	Robin's Nest
Japan's third most common surname after Sato and Suzuki	takahashi
Last word in the title of seven annual Christmas TV shows featuring the comedian Charlie Brooker	WIPE
Lyric comedy by Richard Strauss, his final opera with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal	ARABELLA
Many Hawaiians recently ate at a Christmas ____	LUAU
Medicine to relieve a blocked nose	DECONGESTANT
Musical instruction indicating the end of a pizzicato passage	ARCO
Pixar's second film, following Toy Story	A Bug's Life
Playing card whose symbol is a trefoil	CLUB
River which flows through Kyiv towards the Black Sea	DNIEPER
Roman goddess equated with the Greek goddess Artemis	DIANA
Small anchor used for warping or hauling off	KEDGE
Sri Lankan national cricket captain noted for his unusual bowling style	Lasith Malinga
The alcoholic ingredient of a snowball cocktail	ADVOCAAT
The composer of Hungarian Rhapsodies and Mephisto Waltzes	LISZT
The drummer of Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem	ANIMAL
The first in an alphabetical list of Denmark's cities	aalborg
The pizza preference of 1A, according to an old joke	deep pan crisp and even
The symbol ~	TILDE
The taking-on of something	ADOPTION
The ____, a Dostoevsky novel published serially in 1868-69	IDIOT
Those left behind by some Christmas trees	NEEDLES
Unsolicited social welfare assistance, usually from non-governmental bodies	OUTREACH
Water flowing into Botswana's ____ Delta does not reach the sea, but evaporates	OKAVANGO
Wooden or metal pin which keeps pieces of meat together during cooking	SKEWER
____ played Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager	Kate Mulgrew
____ Works was Josiah Wedgwood's name for his factory opened in 1769 in Stoke-on-Trent	ETRURIA