The Times - Specialist - April 17 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 314
Clues	Answers
".... and for the first time glancing behind, ____, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf" (Jane Eyre)	on each side
"My good friends, I'll leave you till night. You are welcome to ____" (Hamlet)	ELSINORE
"None among us is superman enough to ____ kitsch completely" (Milan Kundera)	ESCAPE
"There was a bit of a ____ last night, yes? Some very extreme ____, yes?" (Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange (film))	NASTINESS
"Whene'er with haggard eyes I view / This dungeon that I'm ____ in, I think of those companions true" (George Canning)	ROTTING
1964 Beatles hit with one of the earliest pop studio recording uses of a fade-in	Eight Days a Week
A blank shot from this cruiser signalled the attack on the Winter Palace which started Russia's October Revolution	AURORA
A British alternative name for an avalanche	snow slip
A spiny globular echinoderm	sea urchin
A two-syllable foot in poetry	IAMB
A usually unsustainable happy or picturesque situation	IDYLL
Actress who played Annie Sugden in Emmerdale (Farm)	Sheila Mercier
An example of stylish excellence	class act
An unfinished or mutilated work of art	TORSO
Another name for Polaris	LODESTAR
Archipelago close to the equator, mostly part of Kiribati	Line Islands
Body of water crossed by a Fishguard to Rosslare ferry	St George's Channel
Channel through which molten metal flows into a mould	SPRUE
Current manager of the Italian national football team	Roberto Mancini
Dining accessory first named by Edward Lear	runcible spoon
Fedora-wearing Malcolm ____ was a well-known manager of Crystal Palace despite two successive relegations	ALLISON
Find oneself unable to make further progress	hit a brick wall
Gospel author who wrote another New Testament book	LUKE
Ingenuousness, lack of sophistication	NAIVETY
Legendary everlasting flower growing in Elysian fields	ASPHODEL
Long-distance travel firm founded by Elon Musk in 2002	SPACEX
Male epitomes for a particular cause	poster boys
Nickname for Arnold Schwarzenegger as a successor of Ronald Reagan	The Governator
Of work, shared between people in a recurring order	ROTATED
Painter of the Clothed Maja and Naked Maja	GOYA
Prince Hamlet's final words in the Shakespeare play	The rest is silence
Profession of Abelard's lover Héloïse	ABBESS
Relating to a major African river	NILOTIC
Relating to one of ancient Greece's two greatest philosophers	ARISTOTELIAN
Rival of Oasis in the "Battle of Britpop" around 1995	BLUR
Small Asian and Australasian bird that builds edible nests	SWIFTLET
Surrey town which is home to the comedy character Ali G	STAINES
Tack items which are also bones of the ear	STIRRUPS
That which is greater than the sum of its parts	GESTALT
The equivalent of Pan in Roman mythology	SILVANUS
The oldest of Dumas's three musketeers	ATHOS
The usual Italian equivalent of Mr	SIGNOR
Those described by around a third of the original Highway Code in 1931	hand signals
Tirana is the capital of this republic	ALBANIA
Torquato ____ wrote the poem Jerusalem Delivered	TASSO
Trademark for a fastener inspired by an outdoor experience with burdock	VELCRO
Type of pension earned by those paying full National Insurance contributions, 1978-2002	Serps
____ had a Christmas No 1 single with Mary's Boy Child in 1957	Harry Belafonte
____ played Ronald Merrick in The Jewel in the Crown	Tim Pigott-Smith
____'s best-known book was the 1933 memoir Testament of Youth	Vera Brittain