The Times Specialist March 7 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 256
Clues	Answers
"A friend is a person with whom I may be ____" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)	SINCERE
"Rights ____ duties, if they are not to become mere licence" (Pope Benedict XVI)	PRESUPPOSE
"So... this is what Dumbledore sends his great defender: a songbird and an ____" (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, film version)	old hat
1970s sitcom in which the only married principal character was Corky, the local policeman	SYKES
1995 comedy film, influenced by Jane Austen's Emma but based in Beverly Hills	CLUELESS
A journalist not working freelance	STAFFER
A mischievous house-spirit in French folklore	esprit follet
A place where official records are stored	REGISTRY
A proclamation by an authority	EDICT
A ____ cab seated two fares with a driver mounted behind	HANSOM
A ____ runs parallel to the equator	line of latitude
Amplifier device distorting the sound of an electric guitar	OVERDRIVE
Biblical character sometimes compared with Judas Iscariot and Absalom for disloyalty	DELILAH
Character who describes the events of a novel	NARRATOR
Colloquially, a residential area with social problems such as crime	sink estate
Colloquially, enjoying long-term successes	on a roll
Computer interface which sends data one bit at a time	serial port
Females who display unsavoury male habits	LADETTES
Former English county bordering Gwent and Powys	Hereford and Worcester
French author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall	Albert Camus
Fruit sometimes called love apple	TOMATO
George Orwell novel with the line "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."	Animal Farm
Haile ____'s 1998 world record for 10,000m has been beaten by only two runners	gebrselassie
Hampshire town in which Benny Hill worked as a milkman, inspiring his song about Ernie	EASTLEIGH
In English Bibles, this provides names for the 22 parts of Psalm 119	Hebrew Alphabet
Latin for "nearest", used in the name of a star	PROXIMA
Leader of the Liberal Democrats, 2007-2015	Nick Clegg
Make someone morally bound to do something	OBLIGE
Mark Twain novel set in Dawson's Landing by the Mississippi	Pudd'nhead Wilson
Monument at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle	arc de triomphe
Mulled wine (usually made with port), mentioned in Dickens's A Christmas Carol	BISHOP
Natives of the Mediterranean's largest island	SICILIANS
Prime minister who had three spells as leader of the opposition	Clement Attlee
Simba, at the start of a 1994 animated film	lion cub
Singer whose 2019 debut album was called When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?	Billie Eilish
Sir Arthur ____ discovered and named the Minoan civilisation	EVANS
Summer sea breeze of western Australia	Fremantle Doctor
The only track on the Genesis album Abacab written entirely by Mike Rutherford	Like It Or Not
There are five ____ in a typical line of Shakespeare	IAMBI
To fit feathers to an arrow	FLETCH
Triangular pyramids	TETRAHEDRA
Valley and rabbit ear are forms of a major technique in ____	ORIGAMI
Yorkshire town name derived from "broken bridge" in Latin	PONTEFRACT
____ opens with "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically"	Lady Chatterley's Lover
____ played Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones	Emilia Clarke
____ Replay was a 1978 album and single by Dan Hartman	INSTANT