The Times Specialist April 25 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 263
Clues	Answers
"Nothing's funnier than to hear silly things read out loud. If Mr Emerson thinks us ____, he can go" (A Room With A View)	FRIVOLOUS
"She walks in beauty, like the night / Of ____ climes and starry skies" (Byron)	CLOUDLESS
"The silent organ ____ chants / The master's requiem" (Dirge, Ralph Waldo Emerson)	LOUDEST
1990 Number 1 UK single by Beats International, based on a 1983 single by the SOS Band	Dub Be Good To Me
A feline with long silky hair and bushy tail	Persian cat
A golfer hopes to not get the ____ before taking a shot	YIPS
A jump made by stamping on the tail of a skateboard	OLLIE
A period taken out of work, eg to bring up children	career break
A Scot claiming unemployment benefit is "____"	on the broo
A swimmer's breathing tube	SNORKEL
A wooden walkway over swampy ground	DUCKBOARD
A ____ may signal the moment of consecration in a mass	sanctus bell
Alternative name for North America's tamarack and balsam poplar trees	HACKMATACK
Annual Munich event known locally as d'Wiesn	OKTOBERFEST
Atmospheric phenomenon, first observed in the 1980s, which typically occurs at the poles in winter	ozone hole
BBC drama series about an English priest settled in Ireland	BALLYKISSANGEL
Coronation Street's "grumpy old man", 1960-1984	Albert Tatlock
Dialect term meaning in a particular direction, or towards a larger community	up-along
Fictional star employee of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited	Ivor the Engine
German goalkeeper who won the Golden Ball as the best player in the 2002 World Cup	Oliver Kahn
German who flew to Moscow's Red Square in 1987	Mathias Rust
Home town of The Flintstones	BEDROCK
In a 19th-century North American forest, a round area about 35 feet wide, used for converting wood into fuel	charcoal pit
In music, a sequence of short notes, also called a turn	gruppetto
Italian liqueur often served with coffee beans	SAMBUCA
Lung disease caused by inhaling mineral fibres	ASBESTOSIS
Mexican artist who married Frida Kahlo twice	Diego Rivera
Mosque in Istanbul, once the world's largest cathedral	Hagia Sophia
Most probable	LIKELIEST
Name for a significant transformation (from The Tempest)	sea change
Predatory coelenterate, eg the Portuguese man-of-war	hydrozoan
Removing three consecutive letters from this old name for a short-lived subatomic particle gives you its current name	mesotron
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" ____ was a philosopher noted for promoting logical positivism	AYER
Sit Walter Scott lived at ____ House near Galashiels	ABBOTSFORD
Sixth letter of the Greek alphabet	ZETA
Slow-moving nocturnal primates of southern Asia	LORISES
Sports clothing company with a double diamond logo	UMBRO
Tennis commentator with the catchphrase "Oh, I say!"	Dan Maskell
The central character in Breakfast at Tiffany's	Holly Golightly
The Roman god of war	MARS
The wild pansy	HEARTSEASE
The ____ (1950) was the second film version of the Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not	breaking point
Three-act play by Henrik Ibsen, featuring Nora and Torvald Helmer	A Doll's House
To think deeply about, or to create an impression of	reflect on
Tropical crested songbird noted for its melodious call	BULBUL
Type of engine used in ships and submarines before other vehicles	DIESEL
____ and gynaecology is a specialisation in medicine	OBSTETRICS
____ Harding is the warden in Anthony Trollope's novel The Warden	SEPTIMUS