The Times - Specialist - October 24 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 289
Clues	Answers
"Just ____ at that news and congratulate our forces" (Margaret Thatcher on the recapture of Sough Georgia in 1982)	REJOICE
"The pathetic ____" is John Ruskin's term for the attribution of human conduct or emotions to non-human things	FALLACY
Ullo John! Gotta New ____? was Alexei Sayle's 1984 top 20 hit	MOTOR
1979 UK No 1 Bee Gees song	TRAGEDY
A medicine thought to be fraudulent	NOSTRUM
A military canteen or the organisation running it	NAAFI
A ____ lets a horse tow continuously when a towpath crosses a canal	roving bridge
American star of 1950s and 1960s sitcoms with a version of her forename in the title	Lucille Ball
Answer to "Often found in the bottom of bird cages", the last clue in a Two Ronnies sketch about crossword solving	GRIT
Channel excavated for a railway or canal	CUT
Circuit used in arithmetic logic units in computers	ADDER
Coach of 1924 Olympic 100m winner Harold Abrahams	Sam Mussabini
Composer of six Paris and twelve London symphonies	HAYDN
Displeasure, or archaically, a shadow	UMBRAGE
Effect seen during solar eclipses, caused by the rugged topography of the moon's surface	Baily's beads
Expert on bushcraft and survival, first seen on BBC television in 1994	Ray Mears
Freehand representation used in school geography	sketch map
German name for a late harvest wine, often sweet	AUSLESE
Glenn Miller's signature tune; a theme in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	moonlight serenade
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the lover of Hermia	LYSANDER
In Italy, these might be dipped into coffee	BISCOTTI
In old style paper sizes, ____ was 20 inches by 25	ROYAL
In ship-building, the opposite of "hog" as a way for a hull to be stressed by its position relative to waves	SAG
In zoology, something ____ lives in tiny spaces	interstitial
Literary name for grassy ground	GREENSWARD
London estate on the site of a former fortified gateway	BARBICAN
Low-budget Ford car, introduced in 1953	POPULAR
Maker of sewing equipment; someone annoying	NEEDLER
Muse clued as "Rhetorical ninth" and described by Beryl Reid as "hardly worth putting in" in her assistance to bowler-hatted Times Crossword solvers in a 1968 sketch	POLYHYMNIA
Museum whose current building replaced the King's Mews in London's Charing Cross district	national gallery
New York Yankees player who married Marilyn Monroe	Joe DiMaggio
Of a voter, to withdraw allegiance to a party	dealign
One millimetre is ten million ____s	angstrom unit
Pointer first bred in Germany, with a silvery-grey coat	WEIMARANER
Portuguese explorer, one of whose ships was the first to circumnavigate the globe	Ferdinand Magellan
Schubert's ____ sonata was written for this instrument like a bowed guitar	ARPEGGIONE
Sitcom with Ronnie Corbett as a man living with his parents	SORRY
Soprano showpiece aria in Bernstein's Candide	Glitter and be Gay
Substance used to cause or confirm a chemical reaction	REAGENT
Technical name for your eardrum	TYMPANUM
The captain of the Pequod in Moby-Dick	AHAB
The clown makeup style originated by Joseph Grimaldi	whiteface
To ____ one's chin is to behave very aggressively	lead with
Torturer of Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four	O'Brien
Type of engine which propelled the V-1 flying bomb	pulse jet
Vehicle used in a winter "sitting down" sport	ski-bob
Warned of (something, typically unwelcome)	PRESAGED
____ Hall opened as a Manchester concert venue in 1996	bridgewater
____'s husband called her "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does"	yoko ono