The Times Specialist May 30 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 268
Clues	Answers
"At the charming game of croquet I have been her partner twice; I love her, ain't it ____ __ Well, it's ____, but it's nice" (Music hall singer Arthur Lloyd)	NAUGHTY
"The Lord above gave man an arm of iron __ But / ____, ____, / Someone else'll do the blinkin' work" (My Fair Lady)	With a Little Bit of Luck
"They tried to make me go to ____ / I said no, no, no" (Amy Winehouse, in her song of the same name)	REHAB
"Who won't be ____ by the rudder must be ____ by the rock" (17th-century proverb)	RULED
1982 TV drama with Bernard Hill as Yosser Hughes	Boys from the Blackstuff
A field used for growing rice	PADDY
A Lesser Sunda island, divided between two nations	TIMOR
A logical but unusual alternative to "travel" as a verb	LOCOMOTE
A narrow window with a pointed arch at the top	LANCET
An informal alternative to "second-hand"	pre-loved
Bird body part; cards left after dealing in some card games	TALON
Character in Arthurian legend, normally seen as traitorous	MORDRED
Charles and Mary Lamb's ____ presented famous dramas in a form for young readers	Tales from Shakespeare
Compulsory apparatus in the distillation of cognac	pot still
Distinguished musicians, in Italian	MAESTRI
Film producer Darryl F ____'s last best picture Oscar was for All About Eve in 1951	ZANUCK
Football fans who are very fanatical	ULTRAS
In camera film speeds, 27 ____ is equivalent to 400 ASA	DIN
In fiction, Sir ____ was also called the Scarlet Pimpernel	Percy Blakeney
Institutions testing the purity of precious metals	assay offices
James ____ became the oldest ever Boat Race rower at the age of 46, in Cambridge's winning 2019 eight	cracknell
Jane Austen's matchmaker Emma marries George ____	KNIGHTLEY
Jazz standard title about a New York subway service	Take the A Train
Jessica's philandering husband in the 1977-1981 US TV sitcom Soap	Chester Tate
Kurt ____ wrote the music for Mack the Knife	WEILL
Lasse ____ won 5,000 and 10,000 metres gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics	VIREN
Male of a British native deer species	ROEBUCK
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a famous painting by ____	David Hockney
Over 2,000 miles southeast of Madagascar, the ____ Islands are one of Earth's remotest places	kerguelen
Roman emperor Constantine's AD313 ____ recognised Christianity	Edict of Milan
Rosa Klebb's rank in From Russia With Love	COLONEL
Scottish mainland malt whiskies are Campbeltown, Lowland, Highland or ____	Speyside
Ships converted for use as prisons in 18th and 19th-century Britain	HULKS
Someone with lengthy experience in a field	old stager
Technically, surgically removed body tissue is ____	ABLATED
The Austin FX4 London taxi could supposedly turn ____	on a sixpence
The composer of Flight of the Bumblebee	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The dwarf who renounces love in Wagner's Das Rheingold	ALBERICH
The main technique used to produce local anaesthesia	nerve block
The partner of a sire as a parent of a horse	DAM
The superstructure of a submarine	conning tower
The volcanoes ____ Kea and ____ Loa form the bulk of Hawaii's Big Island	MAUNA
The world's most popular cheese, circa 1400-1700	EDAM
To deprive of membership, especially of a school	EXPEL
US term for land and/or buildings as property	Real estate
____ King of Arms regulates heraldry in Scotland	Lord Lyon
____ melons are named after the kibbutz where they were first developed	OGEN
____ Sturluson was traditionally seen as the writer of the Prose Edda	SNORRI