The Times - Specialist - December 26 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 298
Clues	Answers
"Gone! And never called me mother!" only appears in stage versions of this Ellen Wood novel	East Lynne
"I stopped believing in ____ when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." (Shirley Temple)	Santa Claus
"O ____ construction! I scorn that with my heels" (Much Ado about Nothing)	ILLEGITIMATE
"Of two evils I have chose the ____" (Matthew Prior, Imitation of Horace)	LEAST
"Time" in the title of Proust's multi-volume novel	TEMPS
1924 musical, the first Broadway collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin	Lady Be Good
A colloquial name for smoked cannabis	wacky baccy
A skilled worker or craftsman	ARTISAN
A two-horse chariot of ancient Rome	BIGA
A ____ Christmas (1965) was the first TV special based on the Peanuts comic strip	Charlie Brown
Aldgate Pump is sometimes seen as the beginning of this part of London	East End
American term for social awareness in an urban environment	street smarts
American TV host who presented the Academy Awards in 2017 and 2018	Jimmy Kimmell
An organism which lives without oxygen	anaerobiont
An ____ contributes to a metric determining online engagement	active user
Anarchist Mikhail ____ was initially an ally but later an opponent of Karl Marx	BAKUNIN
Animated TV series born of two short films called The Spirit of Christmas	South Park
Branch of medicine dealing with pregnancy and childbirth	OBSTETRICS
British motoring magazine first published in 1895	AUTOCAR
Christmas Island is an external territory of this country	AUSTRALIA
Cliff Richard's 1988 seasonal No 1 hit single	Mistletoe and Wine
Corm of (especially) taro	EDDO
Country in which Holy Meal (on Christmas Eve) is the most important event of the year	LITHUANIA
Coupling which allows adjustment of length and tension	turnbuckle
Dave Edmunds's 1970 seasonal No 1 hit single	I Hear You Knocking
Denpasar is the capital of this Indonesian island	BALI
Film actress who, with George Antheil, developed a radio guidance system for torpedoes	Hedy Lamarr
Fleshy envelope covering the seed of some plants	ARIL
France's oldest national daily newspaper	Le Figaro
Frost formed on objects by rapid freezing in mist or fog	RIME
Ghiberti's baptistery doors in Florence are an example of ____ in sculpture	RELIEF
Good wishes	all the best
In 1975, when New Scientist asked its readers to name the best-known and most characteristic scientist of all time, Magnus ____ was ranked third behind Newton and Einstein	pyke
In geologic time, a subdivision of an epoch	AGE
In some forms of poker, this can be used by any player to form a hand	community card
Informally, having a liking for camping, hiking etc	OUTDOORSY
Michel ____ led an unsuccessful cavalry charge at Waterloo	NEY
Mud's 1974 seasonal No 1 hit single	Lonely This Christmas
Name of an Old English letter, a ligature of a and e	AESC
Not bearing gifts?	UNTALENTED
Of a situation, became more intense or exciting	heated up
Of a television service, using land transmission rather than satellite	TERRESTRIAL
Orient	EAST
Ralph Fiennes's roles include that of Lord ____	VOLDEMORT
Sailing vessel of the largest size used in battle	ship of the line
Second brightest star in the night sky	CANOPUS
Striker in Nottingham Forest's successful European Cup sides, with three England caps	Garry Birtles
The Beatles' 1963 seasonal No 1 hit single	I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Furies of Greek mythology	ERINYES
The quest to destroy the One Ring begins here	RIVENDELL
The sleeve of this 1983 New Order single was designed to look like a floppy disk	Blue Monday
The sociopathic chihuahua and dim-witted cat of a former animated TV series	Ren and Stimpy
The symbol ending every statement in computer languages like Java and C	SEMICOLON
Type of long-grain rice used in Indian cuisine	BASMATI
Vegetable with the richest protein content (US spelling)	SOYBEAN
White ____ is a cocktail of vodka, coffee liqueur, and milk	RUSSIAN
You are probably solving this puzzle on Italy's ____ di Santo Stefano	GIORNO
____ says "God bless us, every one!" in A Christmas Carol	Tiny Tim