The Times - Specialist - May 1 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 316
Clues	Answers
"Ha, ha! Give me to drink ____" (Antony and Cleopatra)	MANDRAGORA
"I am at a stage in my life […] where I am completely ____ to what I am as a writer" (John le Carré)	RECONCILED
"No ____, no breath, shall testify thou livest" (Romeo and Juliet)	WARMTH
"Painting isn't an ____ operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us" (Picasso)	AESTHETIC
1960 Everly Brothers single, their first for Warner Brothers	Cathy's Clown
1976 comedic novel by Tom Sharpe	WILT
1992 legal drama film based on a 1989 Aaron Sorkin play	A Few Good Men
1992 Robin Williams film with Jamie Foxx in his film debut	TOYS
A kind of scheme that may be associated with space, training, or research	PROGRAMME
Archaically, a week	an eight days
Aunt Lucy is one of this fictional character's few known relatives	paddington bear
Australian host of the comedy talk show The Last Leg	Adam Hills
Boxer Tyson Fury currently lives in this northern seaside town	MORECAMBE
Catlike relative of the civet	GENET
Cheshire motor racing circuit, home of the F1 non-championship International Gold Cup event in the 1950s and 1960s	Oulton Park
Colloquially, suffered humiliation	ate dirt
Composer of the operas Wozzeck and Lulu	Alban Berg
Detention centre "treatment" promised as a future government action by William Whitelaw in 1977	short sharp shock
Diacritic mark which is part of its own name in Czech	HACEK
European nation, 1992-2006, created and ended by the break-up of nations	Serbia and Montenegro
Filled with shock or horror	AGHAST
First lady of the United States, 1945-1953	Bess Truman
Form of exercise also called an abdominal bridge	PLANK
Hampshire town known as the home of the British Army	ALDERSHOT
In Hinduism, the heaven presided over by Indra	SWARGA
In old-fashioned informal speech, in disguise	INCOG
Incapable of being relieved or mitigated	unassuageable
Intensity of emotion; complexity of thought	DEPTH
ITV series whose theme song was performed by lead actor Nick Berry	HEARTBEAT
Like a mule or hinny	INTERBRED
Mansion used as the basis for Lara Croft's home in Tomb Raider films and video games	Hatfield House
Of a rope, separated into individual strands (nautical)	UNLAID
Online communication platform with a logo called Clyde	DISCORD
Opened in 2001, the ____ Bridge is the world's first tilting bridge	Gateshead Millennium
Painful condition known technically as onychocryptosis	ingrown toenail
Palindromic name of biblical prophet Samuel's mother	HANNAH
Pantomime character based on a medieval merchant	Dick Whittington
Punk band founded and fronted by Dave Vanian	The Damned
Rapid transport system situated around Spain's Ibaizabal river	Metro Bilbao
Rod Hull's violent sidekick on 1970s and 1980s TV	EMU
South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers	OCA
The most popular scale used by British model railway enthusiasts	OO gauge
The town missing from this list: Burslem, Hanley, Fenton, Longton, Tunstall	Stoke-upon-Trent
Traditional Arabian long-sleeved hooded cloaks	djellabas
Word for "child", derived ultimately from Latin "unable to speak"	INFANT
____ / Day Tripper was the first UK single with two A-sides	We Can Work It Out
____ has the easternmost abbey on the Borders Abbeys Way	KELSO
____, Oh Why was the B-side of Paul McCartney's 1971 debut single as a solo artist	Oh Woman