The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 293 November 21 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 293
Clues	Answers
"A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of ____" (Poor Richard's Almanack)	VINEGAR
"And thus it is that that men who rise well will often stand ____" (Henry Taylor on climbing the political slippery pole)	infirmly
"Come, go we to the king. Our power is ____" (Macbeth)	READY
1984 hit single by Russ Abbot	ATMOSPHERE
A capital city in Wade-Giles rather than Pinyin romanisation	PEKING
A flat-bottomed river craft used for cargo	KEELBOAT
A high jump contest in show-jumping	PUISSANCE
A nosepiece on a helmet	NASAL
Actor who was Cissie Braithwaite alongside Les Dawson's Ada Shufflebotham	Roy Barraclough
Africa's largest country	ALGERIA
Another name for GMT	Universal Time
Body of water at the eastern end of the Kiel Canal	Baltic Sea
Boeing B-17 bomber used in the Second World War	Flying Fortress
Co-founder, with Midge Ure, of Band Aid	Bob Geldof
Collection of PG Wodehouse short stories in which Jeeves and Wooster first appear	The Man with Two Left Feet
Computer routine or output which identifies problems	DIAGNOSTIC
Daniel ____ formed an "SAS" partnership with Luis Suarez at Liverpool	sturridge
Former independence activist Rajendra ____ became India's first president in 1950	prasad
French term meaning "lake", used especially for one formed by sand dunes blocking a river	ETANG
German philosopher who influenced Marx and Engels	HEGEL
Historic name for inhabitants of central and northern Asia	TARTARS
In one spelling, an Arabian ruler or chieftain	EMEER
Isle of Wight town with the world's oldest pleasure pier	RYDE
Japanese maple may be used in this form of horticulture	BONSAI
Mary ____ was the first British woman to win track and field Olympic gold, in 1964	RAND
Name associated with poetry, baseball and pigeons	HOMER
Nembutal is a drug of this type	BARBITURATE
One informal name for horripilation	goose pimples
Passages in quicker time at the ends of pieces or movements	STRETTI
Phoenician goddess identified with Aphrodite, Isis and others	ASTARTE
Places where you can study trees or shrubs	ARBORETA
Prevented from taking part in a game	SIDELINED
Rotterdam soccer club whose home ground is known as De Kuip (the tub)	FEYENOORD
Royal house of English kings from Henry II to Richard III	PLANTAGENET
Secluded part of a garden, especially one belonging to a large house	PLEASANCE
Singer, subject of the 2004 documentary ____: A Different Story	George Michael
Site of a former nuclear generating station about ten miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	Three Mile Island
Stage surname of Cyril Mead, comic partner of Edward McGinnis	LITTLE
Surname shared by an American actor, English singer, and Formula One world champion	STEWART
The "micronation" consisting of HM Fort Roughs, off the Essex coast	Principality of Sealand
The meaning of "tref" or "trefa"	non-kosher
The northern part of the Isle of ____ is surrounded by the southern part of the Cowal peninsula	BUTE
The press is sometimes called the ____	Fourth Estate
The Spanish exhortation "Go with God"	vaya con Dios
Theme and variations pieces for bagpipes	PIBROCHS
____ musivum is mosaic work in enamel or coloured glass	OPUS
____ played Patsy's mother in Absolutely Fabulous	Eleanor Bron
____ was Q in 17 James Bond films, 1963-99	Desmond Llewelyn