The Times - Specialist - August 1 2021 Crossword Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 277
Clues	Answers
"It is especially important to encourage ____ thinking when the situation is critical" (Boris Yeltsin in his autobiography)	UNORTHODOX
"You always tell me / ____, ____, ____" (Eponymous song lyrics, probably best-known in a cover version by Doris Day)	PERHAPS
2015 drama film named after a David Hockney painting	A Bigger Splash
A go-between or negotiator	INTERMEDIARY
A strongly scented herb with green-yellow flowers	RUE
A ____ digit is either 0 or 1	BINARY
As an American term for everything, "the whole ____" is an alternative to "the whole nine yards"	ENCHILADA
August ____ patented his alternative to the Qwerty keyboard layout in 1936	DVORAK
BBC sitcom starring Ricky Gervais as Andy Millman	EXTRAS
Codename of the D-Day landing beach closest to Caen	SWORD
Colloquial instruction to calm down	take a chill pill
Coming into being	NASCENT
Commune of Brittany noted for lines of standing stones	CARNAC
Dilbert character, an engineer with a distinctive triangular hairstyle	ALICE
Eric Partridge was a ____ who specialised in slang	LEXICOGRAPHER
Europe's most sparsely populated nation	ICELAND
Florentine artist, seen as the founder of the main tradition of Western painting because he broke away from Byzantine stylization	GIOTTO
Formal base of the royal court in London	St James's Palace
Former name of the region where the Klondike gold rush took place in the 1890s	Yukon Territory
French town which gave its name to a wall tapestry	ARRAS
Home ground of Cambridge United, the first Football League ground name to use its second word	Abbey Stadium
In 1839, Theodor ____ identified cells as the basic components of both animal and plant tissue	SCHWANN
Influential blues singer and guitarist who toured in the USSR in 1979	B B King
Informal name for a tachometer	rev counter
Informally, an Academy Award	OSCAR
Insulated container which a Kiwi might take on a picnic	chilly bin
Irish mixed martial arts fighter and boxer, ranked as the world's highest paid athlete in 2021	Conor McGregor
Italian name of the art style which replaced Mannerism as Europe's dominant one, around 1600	barocco
Maori ceremonial war dances	hakas
Muslim exhortation meaning "God is most great"	Allahu Akbar
Nickname of the winner of the 1920, 1921 and 1930 Wimbledon men's singles	Big Bill Tilden
Online campaign which "votes down" a product or service to damage its reputation	review bomb
Padre ____ was banned by the Vatican from celebrating mass in public in the 1920s, but made a saint by John Paul II in 2002	PIO
Pharisee mentioned in St John's gospel	NICODEMUS
Sockets which accommodate the roots of teeth	ALVEOLI
Suite of nine dance movements by Stravinsky, composed for a 1944 Broadway revue	Scenes de Ballet
The capital of Tibet	LHASA
The capital of Venezuela	CARACAS
The first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury	Thomas Cranmer
The ____ had a UK No 1 hit in 1975 with Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)	stylistics
The ____ is a promotional nickname for Foster's Lager	Amber Nectar
Time during which there is no active monarch	INTERREGNUM
Waterway linking Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland	River Neva
Winner of the 2021 Wimbledon men's singles	Novak Djokovic
Winner of the 2021 Wimbledon women's singles	Ashleigh Barty
____ is significant when writing in languages like Chinese	Stroke order
____ only lost eight states in the 1928 US presidential election, but only won six in 1932	Herbert Hoover
____, banned in warfare by the Geneva Protocol of 1925, is still used for riot control	tear gas