The Times Specialist April 4 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 260
Clues	Answers
"Ba, pueritia, with a horn ____" (Love's Labour's Lost)	ADDED
"Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs / Better than all the ____ an's and ifs" (Robert Frost)	STALEMATE
1990s ITV paranormal documentary series hosted by Michael Aspel	Strange but True
A member of the warrior Hindu caste	KSHATRIYA
Actress who played novelist Joan Wilder in the 1984 film Romancing the Stone	Kathleen Turner
Adhesive containing cyanoacrylates or similar polymers	SUPERGLUE
Agatha Christie novel in which the first murder victim is drowned in an apple-bobbing tub	Hallowe'en Party
American poet who became a British citizen in 1927	T S Eliot
Archaic (but logical) term meaning most well-behaved	ruliest
Australian winner of the Tour de France in 2011	Cadel Evans
Buckinghamshire village believed to have the churchyard in which Gray's Elegy was written	Stoke Poges
Colour named after the wildflower mallow	MAUVE
Come clean	own up
Counterbalance; a printing method	OFFSET
David Lammy has been the MP for ____ since 2000	TOTTENHAM
Dravidian language of Sri Lanka and southern India	TAMIL
Fate or destiny, a word borrowed from Turkish	KISMET
Final software testing phase, possibly not actually done	GAMMA
Greek scientist associated with the cry "Eureka!"	ARCHIMEDES
Have the courage to take on something difficult	man up
If an animal with antlers is female, it must be a ____	REINDEER
In colonial India, a ____ wallah operated a large suspended fan	PUNKAH
In this crossword we sometimes ____ quotations by using them as clues	repurpose
Informally, people like William Hague and Dido Harding	Tory peers
Irish captain of the European team in the postponed Ryder Cup to be held in September	Padraig Harrington
Italian slalom skier who won three Olympic gold medals in the 1980s and 1990s	Alberto Tomba
John ____ was a noted American experimental composer	CAGE
Lindsay ____ starred as 1970s TV's Bionic Woman	WAGNER
Making ungainly progress	LOLLOPING
Minute freshwater organism with a tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth	HYDRA
More blowy (of wind)	GUSTIER
Native of the South American country whose capital is Paramaribo	surinamer
Phrase typically used when starting or restarting a fencing bout	en garde
President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	Kenneth Branagh
Pseudonym of French 19th-century novelist Marie Henri Beyle	STENDHAL
Ridden by Ruby Walsh, winner of the 2005 Grand National	hedgehunter
Rock band best known for their 1970 single All Right Now	FREE
Survival horror video game franchise launched by Konami in 1999	Silent Hill
The "Giant Irises" at the Leslie Roundabout are a notable feature of this Scottish town	GLENROTHES
The detective in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins	Sergeant Cuff
The majority of something	lion's share
The native people of Greenland and northwest Canada	INUIT
The playwright and carpenter in A Midsummer Night's Dream	Peter Quince
The Republic of Ireland's lower house of parliament	dail eireann
The theory that characteristics acquired during an animal's lifetime can be passed on to its offspring	LAMARCKISM
The ____ was originally a description of England, coined by John Bright in 1865	Mother of Parliaments
This may seal a bag or keep trousers up	DRAWSTRING
Time flies	tempus fugit