The Times - Specialist - November 28 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 294
Clues	Answers
“Mamma mia, here I go again. / My my, how can I ____ you?” (Abba)	RESIST
“Pretentious? ____?” (Fawlty Towers)	MOI
“Soy un perdedor, / I’m a ____ baby, so why don’t you kill me?” (Beck)	LOSER
“Surprisingly quick at throwing stones, turf and other ____” (Walter Scott)	MISSILES
1980s fashion items originally worn by cheerleaders	ra-ra skirts
A short-sighted person suffers from this condition	MYOPIA
Actress who played Princess Leia in Star Wars	Carrie Fisher
An irrational or extreme fear of confined spaces	CLAUSTROPHOBIA
Artist in the Early Netherlandish school, best known for triptychs	Hieronymus Bosch
Biblically, a descendant of Jacob	ISRAELITE
British rowing club which won the Olympic men’s eight in 1908 and 1912	LEANDER
Central feature of Vietnam’s flag	STAR
Comic who wrote Ripping Yarns with Terry Jones	Michael Palin
Dr Johnson’s essay series The ____ included Sleep and Robbery of Time	IDLER
English football team whose ground is Selhurst Park	crystal palace
Fruit produced by hybridisation of mandarin orange and grapefruit trees	TANGELO
Heraldic symbol on the St Andrew’s flag, the ensign of the Russian navy	SALTIRE
Hong Kong and Macau are on opposite sides of the ____ River estuary	PEARL
How Nicolas Sarkozy might write “in the style of”	A la
In Greek myth, a fire-breathing monster made of three beasts	CHIMERA
Informally, Crambe maritima, a coastal plant sometimes used as a vegetable	sea kale
Jazz trumpeter whose nicknames included “Pops”	Louis Armstrong
Lomov seeks the hand of Natalia in this Chekhov farce	A Marriage Proposal
London Zoo’s Snowdon ____ is being repurposed to house colobus monkeys	AVIARY
Marine ____ are only found on the Galapagos islands	IGUANAS
Milton poem whose title is “the happy man” in Italian	L'Allegro
Musical category into which Blur, Oasis and Pulp fit	BRITPOP
Mythically unsuccessful flyer	ICARUS
Nationality of Red Cross co-founder Henri Dunant	SWISS
New Zealander Richard ____ was the first bowler to take 400 Test wickets	HADLEE
Often over two floors, self-contained accommodation with its own entrance situated in a larger house	MAISONETTE
Physicist Arpad ____ devised the rating system used in chess	ELO
Punches thrown to strike the underneath of the chin	UPPERCUTS
Ravi Shankar is the best-known player of this instrument	SITAR
Salieri-trained originator of the romantic lied	SCHUBERT
Science fiction work linked with Wells and Welles	The War of the Worlds
Scientific field in which the Richter scale is used	SEISMOLOGY
Soprano Nellie ____ appears on Australia’s 100 dollar note	MELBA
Standard-issue rifle of the British army, 1895-1957	Lee Enfield
Term for Edward VIII following December 10, 1936	abdicant
The largest and heaviest of the three fencing swords	EPEE
The real surname of the author of Middlemarch	EVANS
The ___ Empire was ended by the expedition led by Cortes	AZTEC
The ____ (1972) is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s version of some Middle English literature	Canterbury Tales
They are used to flex, abduct and rotate the arms	deltoid muscles
Use of different methods until success is achieved	trial and error
Victorian art critic John ____ wrote Modern Painters	RUSKIN
Word that can come after Alice, Colorado and Palm	SPRINGS
Word that can come before break, party and garden	TEA
Yachtswoman made a Dame at the age of 28	Ellen MacArthur