The Times - Specialist - December 5 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 295
Clues	Answers
“Methought I was ____ of an ass” (Shakespeare's Titania)	ENAMOURED
1987 Percy Aldon film, released in Germany as Out of Rosenheim	Bagdad Cafe
A decorative flourish in calligraphy	CURLICUE
A fairly cheap Italian restaurant	OSTERIA
A horse or rider in a race over hurdles	STEEPLECHASER
A piece of equipment: more specifically, a fire engine	APPLIANCE
Actress who played “Hot Lips” in MASH on TV	Loretta Swit
Alloy of nickel and titanium, which has shape memory	NITINOL
Apparatus used to maintain a constant low temperature	Cryostat
Author of the 1966 essay collection Against Interpretation	Susan Sontag
Britain's smallest falcon	MERLIN
Departing from a place or subject	wandering off
Description not currently applying to many deciduous trees in Britain	in leaf
Forename of Channel 5's newest Egghead, who writes quizzes for The Times	OLAV
Former Norwegian prime minister, director-general of the World Health Organisation, 1998-2003	Gro Harlem Brundtland
Founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in 1951	Ian Paisley
Greek writer of Parallel Lives	PLUTARCH
In 1953, ____ became the third player to win all four golf majors	Ben Hogan
In ballet, a leap in which an outstretched leg is struck by the other	CABRIOLE
In optics, having threads or wires	FILAR
In South Africa, the opposite of verkrampte, especially concerning apartheid	verligte
In the UK, a road with a severe penalty for stopping	red route
Jocular local name for native of Hobart or Launceston	taswegian
Konrad ____ shared a 1973 Nobel prize for his work on animal behaviour	LORENZ
Literary assistant who takes dictation or copies manuscript	AMANUENSIS
Military expedition advancing to a territory's interior, notably by Xenophon in Asia Minor	ANABASIS
Nickname currently on new Alaskan license plates	Last Frontier
Pertaining to the killing of a king	REGICIDAL
Peter ____ predicted the existence of the boson named after him	HIGGS
Powder which can be made from cassava, chestnuts or chickpeas	FLOUR
Pyracantha	FIRETHORN
Rapper who goes by the name of P Diddy	Sean Combs
Rugby union international whose tally of 38 tries for France remains a record	Serge Blanco
Shakespeare's play with the tinker Christopher Sly	The Taming of the Shrew
Smetana's set of six tone poems, also “My Fatherland”	Ma Vlast
Text put on new manhole covers in the Mussolini regime	SPQR
The anvil of the ear	INCUS
The English equivalent of quatre-vingt-dix	NINETY
The opposite of what a martinet would be	LENIENT
The puffin, in Scotland	Tammie Norie
The satanic nations mentioned in Revelation 20	Gog and Magog
The ____ of most 1990s computer monitors was 4:3	aspect ratio
To appear after a long spell of invisibility	RESURFACE
TV presenter duo with surnames McPartlin and Donnelly	Ant and Dec
Usually bicoloured confection, made from grated palm fruit and sugar syrup	coconut ice
____ elatior was a popular house plant in late Victorian Britain	ASPIDISTRA
____ had a UK No 1 hit with Crazy in 2006	Gnarls Barkley
____ painted Women Ironing and L'Absinthe	edgar degas