The Times Specialist May 2 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 264
Clues	Answers
"Blood, sweat and tears" and "Money is the root of all evil" are ____	MISQUOTATIONS
Abbess who, with Patrick and Columba, is a patron saint of Ireland	St Brigid
Action, time and place as "Aristotelean" dramatic principles, devised in 16th-century Italy	Three unities
BBC newsreader recently appointed as the new host of Mastermind	Clive Myrie
Bed with columns and a canopy, often with curtains	four-poster
Beethoven's ____ symphony includes a setting of Ode to Joy	NINTH
Before 2017, Britain's only 12-sided coin	Threepenny bit
Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya or Sudra in Hindu society	CASTE
Chalk cliffs between Cuckmere Haven and Beachy Head on the Sussex coast	seven sisters
Cocktail of brandy with Cointreau and lemon juice	SIDECAR
Composer of Le Tombeau de Couperin and La Valse	RAVEL
Division of the High Court of Justice	CHANCERY
Farewell to the French about to depart	ADIEU
Fibrous heat-resistant mineral, a cause of mesothelioma	ASBESTOS
Firearm like Dirty Harry's Smith and Wesson Model 29	six-shooter
Has a good relationship with someone	Hits it off
HMS _____, Britain's last surviving major warship of the Second World War, is moored as a museum near Tower Bridge	BELFAST
In Cecile Aubry's novel and its film adaptations, Belle is Sebastian's ____ mountain dog	PYRENEAN
In law, to serve someone with notice before seizing money	GARNISH
In poetry, a ____ rhyme is between stressed syllables followed by identical unstressed ones, as in "merrily" and "verily"	FEMININE
Informally, the aquatic creature in the 1934 "Surgeon's photograph"	NESSIE
Investigations by coroners	INQUESTS
Malé is the capital of this Indian Ocean archipelagic nation	MALDIVES
Mediterranean island port, the birthplace of Napoleon	AJACCIO
Middle name of the poet who wrote Prometheus Unbound	BYSSHE
One of two main formal accompaniments to a DJ	black tie
Organ manual which controls soft sweet-toned pipes	CHOIR
Record company, part of Universal Music Group since 2012	EMI
Rugby forwards in the front row of a scrum	PROPS
Shakespeare's Henry V tells his troops to "____ the action of the tiger"	IMITATE
Short section of sharp bends in a motor-racing track	CHICANE
Short trousers, often worn at Munich's Oktoberfest	LEDERHOSEN
Shrill or piping	REEDY
Stephen Potter's 1952 book about gaining an advantage	one-upmanship
Stretch of road on which motorists should not stop	CLEARWAY
Stringed instrument associated with Hawaii	UKULELE
The German for "boy"	junge
The gift of money or property from a will	LEGACY
The last minute __ or 60 times as long?	Eleventh hour
The Toffees	EVERTON
The ___ of Faith show commitment to Sikhism	Five Articles
The ____ of Abraham is a park with caverns, reached by cable car from Matlock in Derbyshire	HEIGHTS
To cite something as evidence, especially in law	ADDUCE
Tony Blair went to school at ____ College in Edinburgh	FETTES
Tracking device, as found on the telescopes at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire	Radar antenna
Trim and neat, in good order	SHIPSHAPE
TV cooks Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson	Two Fat Ladies
Unseparated stamps with different face values are ____	se tenant
US opera singer who sang at the 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Atlanta and at the second inauguration of Bill Clinton a year later	Jessye Norman
US short-story writer William Sidney Porter's pseudonym	O Henry
____ desperandum means "do not despair"	NIL
____ International is a global human rights organisation	AMNESTY