The Times - Specialist - September 5 2021 Crossword Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 282
Clues	Answers
"The mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to ____ things" (Thoreau)	TRIVIAL
1980s decathlon world record holder Jurgen ____ never beat Daley Thompson in a major championship	HINGSEN
1984 gold medal winner matching Jesse Owens in 1936	Carl Lewis
2016 and 2020 Olympics Pommel horse gold medallist	Max Whitlock
2020 Olympic event in which two British gold medallists both rode the same horse	modern pentathlon
A big increase in a particular view among a population	GROUNDSWELL
A car used for short, usually urban, trips	RUNABOUT
A fabric-covered elastic hair tie	SCRUNCHIE
A person in charge of a trained dog	HANDLER
A seemingly ideal place for altitude training	TIBET
A verbal scolding	ear-bashing
A ____ offers tourists a safe version of cowboy life	dude ranch
According to Oscar Wilde, one knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing	CYNIC
Alexandre ____ wrote The Count of Monte Cristo	DUMAS
Alphabetic character, the epitome of smallness	IOTA
An issue for proofreaders to worry about	HYPHENATION
Ben ____ won Finn class Olympic gold thrice before 17A	ainslie
Biblical patriarch who lived on Earth for 365 years	ENOCH
Britain's most decorated Olympian, a cyclist who won 2016 and 2020 Keirin gold medals	Jason Kenny
British sailor who won the Finn class at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics	Giles Scott
Catchphrase of Alf Garnett	it stands to reason
Conductor contacting a non-metallic part of a circuit	ELECTRODE
Democratic Unionist Party leader, 1971-2008	Ian Paisley
Editor of the BBC's Monitor arts programme, 1958-62	Huw Wheldon
Former American football star convicted of armed robbery in 2008	O J Simpson
Former general, Israel's prime minister from 2001 to 2006	Ariel Sharon
Funder of local government in England before 1990	RATEPAYER
Hi-fi unit with (eg) CD and cassette players and a radio	music centre
Hindu goddess of wealth and beauty	LAKSHMI
I Wanna Be ____ was the first track on the 1989 Stone Roses debut album	ADORED
In one of two spellings, an old name for a blackbird, still used in names of other birds	OUSEL
In organic chemistry, a methyl group is the smallest possible ____ group	ALKYL
Jim ____ won 100m Olympic gold in 1968, with the first official time under 10 seconds	HINES
Josh ____'s Tokyo bronze was Britain's first medal in the men's 1500m since Peter Elliott's silver in 1988	KERR
Leonhard ____ gave i and e their mathematical meanings	EULER
Marine creature with a body full of pores and channels	SPONGE
North American informal alternative to "surrender"	cry uncle
Not in the know	UNINITIATED
Olympic fencing event in which Italians won individual gold from 1932 to 1960	EPEE
Part of an archery target's central 10 ring	INNER
President of Egypt from 1970 until his 1981 assassination	Anwar Sadat
Roman statesman and general who defeated Antony and Cleopatra's forces at the battle of Actium	AGRIPPA
Scenic part of County Galway, where Irish is widely spoken	CONNEMARA
Testification location	witness box
The International Day of ____s takes place on the anniversary of the foundation of the UN	DIPLOMAT
To ____ a male chicken is to castrate it	caponise
Type of card pack first documented in 15th-century Italy	TAROT
Using theoretical deduction rather than observation	a priori
William Cobbett's book about the English countryside	Rural Rides
Wordless improvised singing	ECRU
____ won 2016 and 2020 Olympic 100m breaststroke gold	Adam Peaty