The Times - Specialist - January 16 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 301
Clues	Answers
"I had only ____ left and I didn't want to waste it on God" (Albert Camus)	A Little Time
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are ____" (social reformer Thomas Fowell Buxton)	ATTAINABLE
"Woo-hoo! When I feel heavy-metal!" (____, Blur)	Song Two
1968 film in which Charlton Heston says "You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"	Planet Of The Apes
25 sheets, often kept in a drawer, maybe used by a drawer	CHEQUEBOOK
Activist played by Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom	Steve Biko
Austen matchmaker who marries George Knightley	Emma Woodhouse
Author whose first published novel was Under the Net (1954), about a struggling young writer	iris murdoch
Beetle which was sacred in ancient Egypt	SCARAB
Bernstein-scored musical about Second World War sailors enjoying 24 hours of shore leave	on the town
Book of the Bible featuring the Sermon on the Mount	Gospel of Matthew
Borneo and Sumatra's "man of the forest"	ORANGUTAN
Bunuel film whose title is the name given to Catherine Deneuve's character by Madame Anaïs	Belle de Jour
Character played by George Reeves and Henry Cavill	SUPERMAN
County in which the Long Man of Wilmington is found	East Sussex
Disco group who released Daddy Cool and Rasputin	Boney M
Drug-users such as autobiographer Thomas De Quincey	opium-eaters
English river which the spirit Peg Powler is said to inhabit	TEES
German engineer Werner ____'s "Elektromote", in Berlin in 1882, was the world's first trolleybus	SIEMENS
Greek myth's "river of woe", crossed by souls of the dead	ACHERON
Historic county town in Scotland, replaced by Paisley	RENFREW
Homophones may make ____ unhelpfully difficult	lip-reading
Ian McKellen played John ____ in the 1989 film Scandal	PROFUMO
In 1984 Paul ____ performed a sketch with prime minister Margaret Thatcher, based on the show in which he starred	EDDINGTON
In Indian cuisine, ____ gobi is a potato and cauliflower dish	ALOO
In New York, someone living north of Central Park	UPTOWNER
In the USA, Samuel Barber's ____ has a "solemn occasion" role similar to that of Elgar's Nimrod in the UK	Adagio for Strings
Inspector ____ is part of a code phrase telling transport staff of a potential incident without causing panic	SANDS
Language created by Polish oculist "Doctor Hopeful"	ESPERANTO
Largest of Northern Ireland's six historic counties	TYRONE
Latin-derived term for a countrywoman of Shirley Bassey	CAMBRIAN
Nottinghamshire's ____ Nature Reserve was opened by a famous broadcaster and naturalist	ATTENBOROUGH
Particle discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932	POSITRON
Poet described as the father of Italian literature	DANTE
Roy ____ succeeded Fabio Capello as England manager	HODGSON
Shakespearean princess poisoned by her sister	REGAN
Skimpy beachwear like a G-string	THONG
Sobriquet of King Henry the Second's successor	LIONHEART
Technical name for athlete's foot	tinea pedis
The easternmost beach of the 1944 Normandy landings	SWORD
There has been a UK edition of this magazine since 1938	readers digest
Thucydides wrote a seminal account of this conflict between Athens and Sparta	Peloponnesian War
Title of the final episode of Hawaii Five-O, shown on US TV in April 2020	ALOHA
Torsion-powered sone-throwing weapon of Roman times	ONAGER
Twenty-sided dice are these shapes	icosahedrons
Westinghouse's adversary in the "War of the currents"	EDISON
What can be expressed as 100 grades, 8 points or 6 hours	right angle
Wildcat of South and Central America	OCELOT
Zoological term for a crustacean like a woodlouse	ISOPOD
____s are compounds with similar but different molecular forms, such as propyne and propadiene	ISOMER