The Times Specialist January 24 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 250
Clues	Answers
1980 Winter Olympics venue in the Adirondacks	Lake Placid
A family’s ____ branch is that of a younger son	CADET
A sweetened form of oloroso sherry	AMOROSO
An upper chamber in a large medieval house	SOLAR
Boris Godunov was the best-known role sung by bass opera singer Feodor ____	CHALIAPIN
British rowers won the men’s ____ four at every Olympic games from 2000 to 2016	COXLESS
Capital and second largest city of Nebraska	LINCOLN
Clearly showed something, such as an emotion	EVINCED
Conor ____ O’Brien won seats as a member of the (Irish) Labour party and the United Kingdom Unionist Party	CRUISE
Feel strong hatred	LOATHE
Have a discussion __ or the opposite!	CONVERSE
His first major poetic work was The Shepheardes Calender	SPENSER
In card play, an attempt to take a trick with a possible rather than definite winner, hoping to gain an extra trick	FINESSE
In Joseph Heller’s novel, ____-22 is a no-win situation	CATCH
Introduced laws once again, after a lapse	REIMPOSED
Jenny Eclair, Linda Smith or Miranda Hart	COMEDIENNE
Karma ____, Culture Club’s No 1 single from their 1983 album Colour by Numbers	CHAMELEON
Location of the St Lawrence Ground, formerly Britain’s only major cricket venue with a tree inside the boundary	CANTERBURY
London terminus built by the South Eastern Railway	Cannon Street
London tube station with four Northern line platforms	Camden Town
Michael ____’s televised travel included a circumnavigation	PALIN
Obtained money by scrounging	CADGED
Personal magnetism or a divinely bestowed talent	CHARISMA
Pithy saying such as Oscar Wilde’s “I can resist everything except temptation”	EPIGRAM
Predatory tropical marine fish with slender body and large jaws and teeth	BARRACUDA
Principal seaport of Sri Lanka, which Nelson called one of the world’s best natural harbours	trincomalee
Relating to the liver	HEPATIC
Releases pent-up energy __ like the 26A in the past	Lets off steam
Roof turret allowing smoke to escape from a medieval building; a famous museum	LOUVRE
Scottish crime-writer whose characters include the detective Karen Pirie and the psychologist Tony Hill	Val McDermid
Show absolutely no concern about something	Not give a fig
Small parrot of Australia which feeds on nectar and pollen	LORIKEET
Something good may fall into one’s ____	LAP
Southernmost peninsula of Skye, home of a branch of Clan MacDonald	sleat
Starter very commonly served in Britain in the 1970s	Prawn cocktail
Substance produced by an endocrine gland, carried in blood to other organs and modifying their function	HORMONE
Surname of the 44th US president	OBAMA
Take the easiest way at the expense of high standards	cut corners
The Falkirk Wheel lifts ____s by 24 metres	canal boat
The film ____ Tourists is a 2009 documentary about Americans seeking enlightenment in India	TANTRIC
The foremost Anglican _____ is that of 30A	ARCHBISHOPRIC
The golden ____ was an idol made by Aaron in Exodus	CALF
The star fruit	CARAMBOLA
Titled passenger train from Paddington to Penzance	Cornish Riviera Express
To whom Bob Mortimer’s Train Guy talks in YouTube skits	COL
Villein who occupied a house and land in return for labour	COTTER
Whatever ____ Wants is the best-known song from the 1955 musical Damn Yankees	LOLA
Women’s ____, Second World War civilian organisation created to strengthen the agricultural workforce	Land Army
____ components can be used together without alteration	COMPATIBLE
____ tree is another name for false acacia	LOCUST
____’s first published mystery was Last Bus to Woodstock	Colin Dexter