The Times Specialist July 4 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 273
Clues	Answers
"Amberley excelled at chess __ one mark, Watson, of a ____ mind" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)	SCHEMING
"Danger! Danger! ____! / When we touch, when we kiss" (Electric Six)	High voltage
"The goal of life is living in ____ with nature" (Zeno of Citium)	AGREEMENT
"The human heart is an ____ country" (Frank Crane)	UNDISCOVERED
"____ have a good time, just give me a call" (Queen)	If You Wanna
"____ wobble, but they don't fall down" (1970s Hasbro toy advertising)	WEEBLES
"____, stranger passing by / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie" (Simonides)	Go tell the Spartans
1959 account of a childhood in Slad, Gloucestershire	cider with rosie
1989 romantic comedy with the famous line "I'll have what she's having"	When Harry Met Sally
2004 Alan Bennett play with James Corden in its original cast	The History Boys
A child of kindergarten age	PRESCHOOLER
A group of ___ trees was the reason for the name of London's Seven Sisters district	ELM
American drama series (1987-1991) about a group of Philadelphian baby-boomers	THIRTYSOMETHING
Anti-nihilist novel by Nikolai Leskov that ruined his reputation when serialised in 1870	at daggers drawn
Baggy underclothing named after a social reformer	BLOOMERS
Blood, phlegm and yellow and black bile in Hippocratic medicine	humours
Classic race named after the 12th Earl of Derby's estate where it was devised in 1778	the oaks
Command word made famous by Barbara Woodhouse	SIT
Composer whose sixth and seventh symphonies have parts for cowbells	MAHLER
Courtesan nicknamed Dame de Beauté who was the acknowledged mistress of French king Charles VII	Agnes Sorel
Description of a leopard who has changed their spots?	new person
In a 2007 party leadership vote Nick ____ beat Chris Huhne	CLEGG
In astronomy, the proportion of incident light reflected by the surface of a planet or moon	ALBEDO
Indian city, the site of a tragic 1984 poison gas leak	BHOPAL
Large constellation also known as the Whale	CETUS
Leisure activity which was prominent in the TV series Howards' Way	YACHTING
Levantine spread of aubergine and sesame seeds	baba ganoush
Piano composition, such as Beethoven's Hammerklavier	SONATA
Relating to sight and the eyes	OPTIC
Shorebird with a long upturned bill	AVOCET
Star of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, a target of the FBI's Cointelpro project	Jean Seberg
Term for belief in an interventionist God	THEISM
The area ruled by Macbeth before he became king of Scotland	MORAY
The cause of 19th-century Ireland's Great Famine	potato blight
The German name for the second-largest town in Alsace	Muhlhausen
The northern end of this state's panhandle borders Canada	IDAHO
The perfect way of showing affection in a socially distanced situation	air kiss
The Portuguese equivalent of "Mister"	SENHOR
Things which can link Verdi, WG Grace and Roy Wood	BEARDS
To remove water from cloth by strongly twisting it	wring out
Town near which Britain's Desert Rats stopped the advance of the Afrika Korps in its push toward the Suez canal	El Alamein
Type of comedian such as Milton Jones	PUNSTER
Type of food products containing casein	DAIRY
UK-based American comedian and presenter of the BBC Two documentary series Songs of the South	Reginald D Hunter
What Tevye asks Golde in a Fiddler on the Roof song	Do You Love Me
Word that can come before skin, tears and clip	CROCODILE
____, part of Hampstead Heath, is known locally as a location for kite flying	Parliament Hill