The Times - Specialist - March 27 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 311
Clues	Answers
"Somewhere in the ____, there must be something better than man" (Planet of the Apes tagline)	UNIVERSE
"The ____ is not master in its own house" (Freud)	EGO
1986 Nobel peace prize winner who said "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference"	Elie Wiesel
A garden plant in the genus Polygonatum, with clusters of tubular creamy-white flowers	Solomon's seal
A person who fears being in open or public places	AGORAPHOBE
A possible problem when you take a bowler off	hat hair
According to Escoffier, a sauce using mushrooms, shallots, glaze, white wine and brandy	CHASSEUR
American pop rock band comprising sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana	HAIM
American-English actress who rose to fame in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie	Sienna Miller
An annual holiday in northern England, originally celebrating a saint's feast day	WAKES
Canadian who often played snooker in white suits	Kirk Stevens
City of southeast Turkey; the name of a superhero	BATMAN
Cottage location in the song When I'm Sixty-Four	Isle of Wight
County town of Fingal, part of the former County Dublin	SWORDS
Deuteronomy 14:10 forbids consumption of this fish	EEL
Evergreen shrub with poisonous berries, one of only two species of its genus native to Britain	spurge-laurel
German physicist Walther ____'s heat theorem was an early form of the third law of thermodynamics	NERNST
Greater Manchester town with a 27-arch railway viaduct which crosses the M60	STOCKPORT
Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives	PLUTARCH
In Macbeth, wife of the Thane of Fife	Lady Macduff
In short, a charity founded in 1916, which aims to reduce accidents	ROSPA
Informally, a pasta dish which is not a traditional in Italy	spag bol
Informally, the range of hills in which Cheddar Gorge lies	the Mendips
Ironic exclamation of disbelief or surprise	stroll on
London suburb once called Kingston-upon-Railway	SURBITON
Main setting of Tolkien's most widely-read novels	Middle-earth
On an ____ or Baker day, teachers work without pupils	INSET
Population of a micro-organism, preserved on a single occasion, for example by freezing	stabilate
Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010	Mark Rutte
Radio studio sign stating that broadcasting is in progress	on air
Relating to bears	URSINE
Scottish explorer, mainly of the River Niger	Mungo Park
Singer/songwriter whose debut album was Call Off the Search	Katie Melua
Situated in Lushan County in China's Henan province, the world's tallest statue from 2008 to 2018	Spring Temple Buddha
Small macaque native to parts of Asia	rhesus monkey
Stage name of Eurovision winner and drag artist Thomas Neuwirth	Conchita Wurst
Swollen, or becoming swollen	TUMESCENT
The eruption of this island in 1883 is believed to have made the loudest noise ever heard by humans	KRAKATOA
The last part of a Mass service in most musical settings	agnus dei
The most recent studio album by Rage Against the Machine	RENEGADES
The Thinker and The Kiss are sculptures by ____	Auguste Rodin
The tuber of this sunflower is used as a root vegetable	Jerusalem artichoke
The vitellus of an egg	YOLK
The ____ became the world's fastest production car in 2010	Bugatti Veyron
Trifolium campestre or field clover	hop trefoil
Type of bathing suit pioneered by Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman in the early 20th century	one-piece
Volley gun used in the Franco-Prussian war; French for "machine gun"	MITRAILLEUSE
____ designed Covent Garden's central square and church	Inigo Jones