The Times Specialist Crossword Answer October 3 2021

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 286
Clues	Answers
"And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, / Make the sage ____, and the serious smile" (Pope, translating Homer)	FROLIC
"Politics […] are nothing but corruptions […] for which reason courts are so ____ with politics" (Jonathan Swift)	OVERRUN
"We will have ____ and things, and fine array; / And kiss me, Kate; we will be married o' Sunday" (Taming of the Shrew)	RINGS
"Young love is ____, but it needs to get around" (Ovid, Ars Amatoria)	ERRANT
"____'s sons are brothers in distress; / A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!" (Robert Burns, A Winter Night)	AFFLICTION
Tis was the sequel to this 1996 Frank McCourt memoir	Angela's Ashes
1989 No 1 single by the Bangles	Eternal Flame
A description of a very disadvantageous situation	lose-lose
A lubricating pump	grease gun
A polished but not faceted gemstone, usually opaque	CABOCHON
A wild ass of central Asia	ONAGER
A ____ portrait depicts someone down to the waist	half-length
An old technical name for malnutrition	cacotrophy
An open tart, or the metal disc which is stamped to produce a coin	FLAN
British actress who starred alongside John Krasinski in the horror film A Quiet Place	Emily Blunt
Charles ____ was the cartoonist who created Snoopy	SCHULZ
Choreographer who directed films including Cabaret (1972) and All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
Edmond ____'s 1897 play was the first fictionalisation of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac	ROSTAND
Embryonic structure from which the brain and spinal cord develop	neural tube
England's third-largest protected landscape	The Cotswolds
In 1919, a post-war treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at this former French royal residence	Palace of Versailles
In a medieval university, the study of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music for an MA	Quadrivium
In American football, this scores six points	TOUCHDOWN
In Asia, a single-passenger cart pulled (or now often pedalled) by one person	RICKSHAW
In biology, the taxonomic rank between class and family	ORDER
In mainly literary use, the eye	ORB
Largest animal of the Anura 7D	goliath frog
Loading lines on ships are named after this politician	Samuel Plimsoll
Of music, using conventional keys and harmony	TONAL
One with feelings and attitudes like those of another	soul brother
Peak in Rio de Janeiro which features in the James Bond film Moonraker	Sugarloaf Mountain
Proprietary drug sometimes taken instead of aspirin	NUROFEN
Proprietary name for the stimulant methylphenidate	RITALIN
Region which should logically include Somalia	East Africa
Road safety campaign featuring David Prowse, who later played Darth Vader, as a superhero figure	Green Cross Code
Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals	DIANA
Sark's ____ was its judge, 1675-2013	SENESCHAL
Sheridan's 1779 satirical play about plays	The Critic
Short-term government borrowing, mainly using treasury bills	floating debt
Slang used by a particular group	ARGOT
South coast resort with two funicular cliff railways	HASTINGS
Swiss melted cheese dish, often with potatoes and pickles	RACLETTE
The capital of this French department is Le Puy-en-Velay	Haute-Loire
The official language of Cambodia	KHMER
Treatment intended to alleviate menopausal symptoms	HRT
____ played Nero in BBC2's 1976 version of I, Claudius	Christopher Biggins
____ Rock, in the Firth of Forth, has the world's largest single-island colony of northern gannets	BASS
____ was a presenter on ITN News at Ten, 1967-79	Reginald Bosanquet