The Times Specialist January 3 2021 Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 247
Clues	Answers
"How doth the little busy ___ / Improve each shining hour" (Isaac Watts)	BEE
"On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, ____, fortifications, and the like" (Winston Churchill, on dictators)	AEROPLANES
"Writing fiction for money is ____" (Stephen King)	a mug's game
A "lady" in a misheard 17th-century ballad, now a name for misheard words, especially in song lyrics	MONDEGREEN
A ballroom dance which is also a Genesis album title	FOXTROT
A curse or malevolent force, or the amulet supposed to protect against it	evil eye
A human vein included in a well-known English idiom	JUGULAR
A small boat	SKIFF
A waitress in the J Lyons & Co chain of tea shops and cafés in London	NIPPY
Actor who played Mr Hedges in ITV's Please Sir!	John Alderton
Anthony ____ directed and acted in Shakespeare plays before acting in films in the late 1950s and the 1960s	QUAYLE
As often spelled, Marilyn Monroe's previous name	Norma Jean Baker
Character played by David Jason in Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic	rincewind
Charles ____'s best-known work is the historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth	READE
Chekhov play, reworking his earlier The Wood Demon	uncle vanya
Court ____s are not normally worn for tennis	SHOE
Cricket fielding position, often taken by a captain	mid-off
Dava Sobel's Longitude was about the horologist John ____	HARRISON
Developed vetting is the highest level of ____ in work for the UK government	security clearance
Ed Begley played ____ 10 in 12 Angry Men	JUROR
Experimentation to test opinion	flying a kite
Forkietail and clipshears are dialect names for this insect	EARWIG
George Bernard Shaw play, strongly influenced by Anton Chekhov	Heartbreak House
Henri ____ was a leading photojournalist, using candid photography	Cartier-Bresson
Henry Wood's first Promenade Concert in 1895 began with the national anthem and Wagner's ____ overture	RIENZI
Historic demonstration of reverence in eastern Asia	KOWTOW
Historically, beer brewed without hops	ALE
Historically, Devil's Island or Norfolk Island	penal settlement
In a French household, this is a "gant de four"	oven glove
In maths, the union of A with the ____ is A	empty set
Informally, a western film	OATER
Inspector played by Martin Shaw in a BBC television series	George Gently
Jimmy ____ played a headmaster in the BBC's Whack-O! sitcom	EDWARDS
Kyrzbekistan or San Serriffe	non-existent nation
Marcel Duchamp's 1917 sculpture Fountain featured a ____	URINAL
Of a person, weak or ineffectual	WUSSY
One name for the red and white headgear accompanying a famous fictional cat's bow tie	tall hat
Sculptor specialising in public art, whose works appear on pages 24 and 25 of series B UK passports, issued 2015-2020	Anish Kapoor
Site of the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatre	POMPEII
Small bird, also called hedge sparrow	DUNNOCK
Southeastern area which supplied most of Britain's iron until coke became a key part of the ironmaking process	WEALD
The nationality of the composer Arvo Pärt	ESTONIAN
The palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic periods	Stone Age
The words starting Genesis in the King James Bible	In the Beginning
Title and main character of Anne Brontë's first published novel	Agnes Grey
To be in the arms of Morpheus	SLEEP
Type of unglazed pottery, often in Wedgwood blue	jasperware
Waste produced in the smelting or refining of ore	SLAG
Women's Olympic 200m and 400m champion in 1996	Marie-Jose Perec