The Times - Specialist - January 23 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 302
Clues	Answers
“Never to be forgotten, that first long secret drink of golden fire” starts a key moment in this autobiographical book	cider with rosie
“Numerous are the ____ chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers” (Einstein)	ACADEMIC
A follower of John Wycliffe	LOLLARD
A knack for making money easily	Midas touch
Actress who gained recognition for her role in And God Created Woman	Brigitte Bardot
Adventurer who appeared in 13 H Rider Haggard novels	Allan Quatermain
Ballet dancer Wayne Sleep set a world record with an ____-douze on TV in 1973	ENTRECHAT
Big cat, native to the Indian subcontinent	Bengal tiger
Boxer who described his sport as “the toughest and loneliest sport in the world”	Frank Bruno
Capital of the Philippines	MANILA
Chemical used in Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War	agent orange
Cold sea-mist of the east coast of England or Scotland	HAAR
Creator of the character Bridget Jones	Helen Fielding
Either of two Muslim festivals also called Bairam	EID
Excavator with buckets pulled by wire cables	DRAGLINE
Head of state of Barbados, replacing Queen Elizabeth II on November 30 2021	Sandra Mason
In gardening, heather	ERICA
In Roman Catholicism, a saint’s rosary is a second-class ____	RELIC
In Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, two ____s fly overhead just before Siegfried is killed	RAVEN
Investors who deliberately go against where the “smart money” supposedly should be	contrarians
Japan, in Japan	NIPPON
Local name for a European waterway associated with a particular wine	Rio Douro
Noel Coward play whose name comes from a song in Twelfth Night	Present Laughter
Official country retreat of the US president	Camp David
On Mars in April 2021, Ingenuity, a robotic ____, made the first powered controlled extraterrestrial flight by an aircraft	HELICOPTER
One 3600th of a degree	SECOND
One name for the northernmost town of the United States	BARROW
One who forms or joins a usually temporary political alliance	coalitioner
Punk band the ____ Column were one of the first acts signed by Tony Wilson’s Factory Records	durutti
Required by custom or etiquette	de rigueur
Rosalind Franklin made important contributions to the discovery of this molecule’s structure	DNA
Rulers, especially hereditary ones	DYNASTS
Scientists investigating possible life on other planets	exobiologists
Someone or something reducing the severity of a situation	MITIGATOR
Surname of the author of Doctor Zhivago	PASTERNAK
Sweden’s “equivalent” of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	Anders Celsius
Technical term for being buried alive	vivisepulture
The Latin ____ judice means “before a judge”	coram
The Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium	Menin Gate
The New York coffee house in Friends	Central Perk
The only Dutch player to be inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame	Dennis Bergkamp
The phylum to which humans belong	CHORDATA
The ____s of bonnie Doon are one of its fresh and fair features in a Robert Burns song	BRAE
Three-way, as in government	TRIPARTITE
To drag oneself or an object with difficulty (variant spelling)	SCHLEPP
Welsh comedian who was DJ Mike Smash alongside Harry Enfield as Dave Nice	Paul Whitehouse
____ are sometimes mistaken for crocs	GATORS
____ zoster is the technical name for shingles	HERPES