The Times Specialist June 20 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 271
Clues	Answers
"A court martial, under orders, has just dared to acquit a certain Esterhazy, a supreme insult to all truth and justice. And now the image of France is ____ by this filth." (Emile Zola in J'Accuse)	SULLIED
1973 13-part BBC TV documentary written and presented by Dr Jacob Bronowski	The Ascent of Man
1984 Nobel peace prize winner, later made an archbishop	Desmond Tutu
A gelatine obtained from the swim bladder of freshwater fish, used to clarify beer	ISINGLASS
A portion of an issue of shares	TRANCHE
A red-skinned variety of cooking apple, first grown in the US	JONATHAN
Ancient Greek dramatist who wrote The Wasps and The Birds	ARISTOPHANES
Canticle using words from chapter 1 of St Luke's gospel	MAGNIFICAT
Car firm which currently produces Ghost, Dawn and Cullinan models	Rolls-Royce
Chicken breed which was developed in the US from oriental breeds and brown Leghorns	rhode island red
Early form of bicycle, propelled by the feet on the ground	VELOCIPEDE
Finely chopped raw beef, with onions and seasoning, topped with raw egg yolk	steak tartare
Footwear and sportswear company founded by Adolf Dassler	ADIDAS
Greek god, son of Kronos and Rhea	ZEUS
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the daughter of Egeus who loves Lysander but whom Demetrius woos	HERMIA
Late 18th-century German literary movement, a reaction against rationalism	Sturm und Drang
Malay dagger with a wavy-edged blade	KRIS
Manicuring aid for cleaning fingernails and cuticles	Orange stick
Musical direction meaning "at a fairly brisk pace"	ALLEGRETTO
Orchestral song cycle by Ravel, based on poems by Tristan Klingsor which were inspired by The Thousand and One Nights	SHEHERAZADE
Pigment originally made with verdigris, vinegar and white arsenic	Emerald green
Possible murder scene in the original version of Cluedo, between the kitchen and the conservatory	BALLROOM
Potato wedges, raita and garlic bread, for example	side dishes
Probe which flew by and studied Halley's comet in 1986	GIOTTO
Publisher who founded the Left Book Club and the Jewish Society for Human Service	Victor Gollancz
Sign language for bookmakers rather than deaf people	tic-tac
Sob bitterly	Cry one's eyes out
Squid served as food	CALAMARI
Starting at the very beginning	from the word go
Surrey's cricket captain, 1963-1972, whose son became England's captain in 1998	Micky Stewart
Technically trichoptilosis, a "bad hair day" problem	split ends
The earlier incarnation of "home economics"	Domestic science
The eponymous hero of Alain-Fournier's classic novel	Le Grand Meaulnes
The host of Question Time on BBC One and the Conservative MP for Congleton are ____s	NAMESAKE
The purchasers of a newspaper or magazine	READERSHIP
The rebel leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a protest against the dissolution of the monasteries	Robert Aske
The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers	ANTECEDENT
To cancel the validity of something, such as a contract or election result	ANNUL
Town now in Oxfordshire, where MG cars were built for fifty years until 1980	ABINGDON
Vegetation providing shelter for wild animals	COVER
Violent tropical storms	CYCLONES
What a sundial indicates	Solar time
____ Bumppo is the full name of the main character in The Last of the Mohicans	NATHANIEL