The Times - Specialist - March 6 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 308
Clues	Answers
"Charm ____ with air, and agony with words" (Much Ado About Nothing)	ACHE
"Life, what ____ but a dream?" (Lewis Carroll)	is it
"Medical treatment [...] will be provided for all citizens by a ____" (Beveridge Report, 1942)	National Health Service
"You in that dress / My thoughts I confess / Verge on dirty / Ah, come on, ____" (Dexy's Midnight Runners)	EILEEN
1946 Powell and Pressburger film in which David Niven's character argues for his life in a celestial court	A Matter Of Life And Death
A proverb; a late 1980s UK pop band	curiosity killed the cat
Abbreviated, a unit equal to three feet by three feet	Sq yd
An evangelical Christian who distributes free Bibles	GIDEON
An ocular inflammation	IRITIS
Antagonist played by Hugo Weaving in The Matrix trilogy	Agent Smith
Bird associated with Chekov and Brighton footballers	SEAGULL
Book of the Old Testament with a passage adapted by Quentin Tarantino for use in Pulp Fiction	EZEKIEL
Capital at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonlé Sap	Phnom Penh
Character actor who played Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine	Brian Wilde
Character played by Will Ferrell in a 2003 Christmas film	ELF
Christian name shared by the singer of Mötley Crüe and a fedora-wearing former Liberal Democrat leader	VINCE
Cocktail made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a small amount of cola to give it its colour	Long Island iced tea
Country whose pre-Euro currency was the kroon	ESTONIA
Deadly 9000-series computer in Arthur C Clarke books	HAL
District of Monaco which includes the Place du Casino	monte carlo
Early Greek poet whose Works and Days gave his brother farming and moral advice	HESIOD
Exhibiting a supercilious and contemptuous disdain	SNIFFY
Former title held by the daughter of a Portuguese king	INFANTA
French town made famous by Bernadette Soubirous	LOURDES
Greek letter, originally a vowel but later a consonant	ETA
Hawaiian goose which can be seen at the Slimbridge wildlife reserve	NENE
Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten wrote operatic works based on this play	a midsummer night's dream
In 1953, the Supermarine ____ aptly set a world air speed record	SWIFT
In Arthurian legend, the father of Galahad	LANCELOT
In biology, being in a condition of suspended animation	TORPID
In Chinese philosophy, the ultimate universal principle	TAO
Julie Waters played Mrs ____, the tea lady in Acorn Antiques	OVERALL
Lego rival whose current sets include a Volkswagen Beetle with passengers and loaded roof rack	PLAYMOBIL
Middle name distinguishing the sixth US president from the second	QUINCY
On a mythical journey, ____ blinded Polyphemus, a cyclops	ODYSSEUS
Retro meat dish with a sauce that was sometimes flambéed at the tableside	steak diane
Satirical publication with a crossword set by Cyclops	Private Eye
Serous membrane that covers abdominal organs	PERITONEUM
Singers such as Ian Bostridge and Russell Watson	TENORS
Term for works written under their authors' real names	autonyms
The "state of rest" in Newton's first law of motion	INERTIA
The real name of Baby Spice	Emma Bunton
The title characters in James Fenimore Cooper's The ____ (1829) are Chingachgook and Uncas	Last of the Mohicans
Title song of John Lennon's second solo album	IMAGINE
Type of spear often seen in depictions of Poseidon	TRIDENT
Vessel whose sister ships were named Niña and Pinta	santa maria
West Side Story song for Anita, Rosalia and the Shark girls	AMERICA
Western name for Ibn Sina (c 980-1027), whose Canon of Medicine was a standard textbook at medieval universities	avicenna
____ of the Sorrows is a tragic heroine in Irish folklore	dierdre