The Times - Specialist - May 15 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 318
Clues	Answers
"Live and die in Aristotle's works" is a line from this Marlowe play	Doctor Faustus
"The lassie I love best" in a Robert Burns poem	JEAN
1987 single by Sinitta, her first collaboration with Stock Aitken Waterman	toy boy
A candidate as a practical nuclear fusion reactor, named from a Russian acronym for "toroidal magnetic chamber"	tokamak
A scholar of religion	THEOLOGIAN
A ____ printer uses droplets of heated ink	BUBBLEJET
Abstract painting style popular in the 1960s	op art
Actress who played Dolores Umbridge in two Harry Potter films	Imelda Staunton
Actress who starred with Al Pacino in Sea of Love	Ellen Barkin
Although he played no games, ____ was the only Liverpool player in England's 1970 World Cup squad	Emlyn Hughes
Austria's second largest city, sometimes symbolised by its Uhrturm (clock tower)	GRAZ
Bellini's last opera, set during the English Civil War	I Puritani
Butterfly, once common in the UK, in decline due to loss of heathland	silver-studded blue
Cake for which kirschwasser is a required ingredient in Germany	black forest gateau
Cartoon cat with the catchphrase "Sufferin' succotash!"	SYLVESTER
City in which Starbucks was founded	SEATTLE
Coastal region of California, and Jack Kerouac's sequel to On the Road	Big Sur
Colloquially, the shedding of tears	WATERWORKS
Eastenders character played by Perry Fenwick since 1998	Billy Mitchell
Essex town, home to TOWIE locations like the Sugar Hut	BRENTWOOD
FACE or "All cows eat grass" as used in musical education, for example	MNEMONIC
Formally or humorously, to kiss	OSCULATE
Format used in the Cricket World Cup	ODI
Former province which contained 29 Across	TRANSVAAL
Germany's armed forces	bundeswehr
Hock is sometimes called ____ wine	RHENISH
In Anglo-Saxon times, a domestic slave	ESNE
In Hinduism, a male religious teacher	SWAMI
Informally, megapodes, Australasian birds which incubate their eggs in piles of decaying vegetation	mound-builders
Ionised liquid typically used in batteries	ELECTROLYTE
John Galsworthy's best-known books	The Forsyte Saga
Jointed dummies used by artists	lay-figures
Like his Messiah, this Handel oratorio has a text from bible passages and no named characters	Israel in Egypt
Lithuania, to a Lithuanian	lietuva
Marinated beef dish which, despite its name, is of American origin	London broil
Midlands castle; a Walter Scott novel featuring Elizabeth I	KENILWORTH
One who adopts an affected manner to impress others	POSEUR
Online abbreviation referring to offline interaction	IRL
Physical feature forming much of the boundary between Europe and Asia	Ural Mountains
Rubber and starch are examples of this kind of substance	POLYMER
South African region where a gold rush followed the discovery of its main reef in 1886	WITWATERSRAND
The Morris ____ was the successor to the Marina	ITAL
The time between spring equinoxes	solar year
The work of a compositor	TYPESETTING
Third chronological instalments of films, books etc	threequels
To look ____ means to stare angrily at someone	DAGGERS
To perform an act of servile respect	KOWTOW
____'s Rube Goldbergian contraptions usually failed to catch the Road Runner	Wile E Coyote