The Times - Specialist - September 26 2021 Crossword Solution

 

Clues	Answers
A saint, prophet or clergyman	Man of God
According to Ernest Hemingway, Switzerland is “much more ____ than sideways”	up and down
Australian tennis star who, like Ivan Lendl, won every grand slam men's singles title except Wimbledon at least twice	Ken Rosewall
Author of The Tinderbox and The Tin Soldier, portrayed by Danny Kaye in a 1952 film	Hans Christian Andersen
Ballet leap in which legs are crossed or beaten together	ENTRECHAT
Band once worn on a Eucharist celebrant's left arm	MANIPLE
Bass wind instrument with sinuous tubing, used in village bands around 200 years ago	SERPENT
Business offering refreshments and use of computers	internet cafe
Canada's North and South ____ rivers originate from glaciers in the Rockies and merge near Prince Albert on the way to Lake Winnipeg	SASKATCHEWAN
Clive Anderson became the main host of this Radio 4 programme after Ned Sherrin died in 2007	loose ends
Cocktail of brandy, orange liqueur and lemon juice	SIDECAR
Cold dish including cucumber, tomatoes, olives and feta	Greek salad
Dutch “klompen” are an example of this kind of footwear	CLOGS
Eastern Austria's “iron town”, where Haydn is buried in the Bergkirche	EISENSTADT
Emma Carus was the first singer of this Irving Berlin classic, in Chicago in 1911	Alexanders Ragtime Band
Film and TV genre developed in Japan	ANIME
Former First Family, including daughters Malia and Sasha	OBAMAS
French foodstuff whose shape is sometimes falsely claimed to celebrate a defeat of Arabic invaders of Europe	CROISSANT
Hesiod and Pindar came from this ancient Greek province	BOEOTIA
High up	ALOFT
In a ____Garden is one of Albert Ketèlby's most popular compositions	MONASTERY
In English usage, the long syllable in a metrical foot in poetry	ARSIS
Lancashire new town designated in 1961 to house overspill population from north Merseyside	skelmersdale
Linked fetters binding a prisoner's wrists or ankles	SHACKLE
Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947	Khyber Pass
Palace which became a museum in the French Revolution	LOUVRE
Part of Scotland known in Gaelic as Na h-Eileanan Siar	outer hebrides
Piece of baggage comprising two equal-sized compartments hinged together	gladstone bag
Powder from ___ beans is used as a substitute for chocolate	CAROB
Radio comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, born Charles Olden	Ted Ray
Sailing craft competing in events like the America's Cup	Racing yacht
Samuel Pepys's ending for some of his diary entries	And so to bed
Satirical magazine whose offices in Paris were attacked by two Islamist gunmen in 2015	Charlie Hebdo
Sets of island shelving in self-service stores	GONDOLAS
Since June 28, the host of Countdown on Channel 4	Anne Robinson
The Bletchley Park codebreaker on the new £50 note	Alan Turing
The primary orbital vehicle being developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX company	STARSHIP
The third brightest star in the sky, visible only from the southern hemisphere	alpha centauri
The ____ was a jazz-influenced secular cantata by Constant Lambert, first performed in 1927	Rio Grande
Type of brandy produced in Gascony	ARMAGNAC
Until 1974, senior county council members, elected by other councillors	ALDERMEN
Vauxhall car which replaced the Wyvern model in 1957	VICTOR
Where Gray probably heard the “knell of parting day”	Stoke Poges
Without harm, loss or penalty	scot free
____ or grockle, Cornish dialect name for a holidaymaker	EMMET