The Times Specialist February 21 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 254
Clues	Answers
"A ____ lady there never was seen / Than the blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green" (17th-century ballad lyrics)	FAIRER
:) or :(	EMOTICON
According to ____'s razor, assumptions should be minimised in explanations	OCCAM
Actor best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's boss	Herbert Lom
American city whose local teams won the Super Bowl and World Series in 1979	PITTSBURGH
American city whose local teams won the Super Bowl and World Series in 2004	BOSTON
And also not	nor yet
Artist using copper, wax and acid	ETCHER
Attacked with a bludgeon	COSHED
Broadway musical based on a comic strip about an orphan	ANNIE
Celia ____ played Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques	IMRIE
Colonel ____ was a pompous jingoistic character created by David Low in 1934	BLIMP
Defensive playing style in cricket	dead bat
Edible mollusc with projections on the hinge of its shell	wing oyster
English football club whose colours were adopted by Juventus in 1903	notts County
Environmental factors affecting a crop, especially in wine-making	TERROIR
Flexible elongated organ possessed by many molluscs	TENTACLE
Frame on which traitors were dragged to their place of execution	HURDLE
French region at the western end of the Pyrenees	Pays Basque
Grant Wood painting of a man with a pitchfork and his daughter	American Gothic
Has very much … money or hypocrisy, frequently	stinks of
In a ____, a horse rider stays in the saddle	sitting trot
In Japanese cuisine, a soy sauce and rice wine glaze	TERIYAKI
Influential designer of 1940s and 1950s electric guitars	Leo Fender
Mary I married Philip II of Spain in this cathedral in 1554	WINCHESTER
Member of a Turkic ethnic group in central Asia	KAZAKH
Naked	in the altogether
Nickname for Napoleon Bonaparte	Little Corporal
Painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights	Hieronymus Bosch
Parasitoid insect which is in fact a kind of wasp	ichneumon fly
Political party led by John Hume, 1979-2001	SDLP
Possibly approximate principles, based on practice	rules of thumb
Regent's Park's ____ Circle surrounds Queen Mary's Gardens and the open-air theatre	INNER
Rock fragments ejected by a volcano	Tephra
Sculptor whose Winged Figure is on the south-east corner of John Lewis's Oxford Street branch	Barbara Hepworth
Shropshire village with remains of a Roman city at the end of Watling Street	WROXETER
Skippy the ____ was a 1960s TV character	bush kangaroo
Someone or something you don't want to look at	a sight
Tedious details	MINUTIAE
The A38 between Plymouth and Exeter	devon Expressway
The only one of the USA's original 13 states with no Atlantic coastline	PENNSYLVANIA
The site of a Saxon royal palace in Berkshire	Old Windsor
To listen surreptitiously	EARWIG
Traditional feature of British churchyards	yew trees
Tree whose wood is more durable if kept wet	ALDER
Undesired effect of flash photography	red-eye
Wind instrument technique	tonguing
Writer of stories set in the fictional town of Malgudi in southern India	R K Narayan
Yorkshire port, Britain's main source of jet	WHITBY
____ Xiaoping became China's de facto leader in 1978	DENG