The Times - Specialist - May 22 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 319
Clues	Answers
"The wife, where danger or ____ lurks, / Safest and seemliest by her husband stays" (Paradise Lost)	DISHONOUR
"To live means to finesse the processes to which one is ____" (Bertolt Brecht)	subjugated
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open ____ and die." (Mel Brooks)	SEWER
A continuous discharge of firearms	FUSILLADE
A decree, from Latin for "let it be done"	FIAT
A policeman or police force, from a PC created by Enid Blyton	PLOD
A wine connoisseur	OENOPHILE
Actress best known for her role as Demelza in the costume drama Poldark	Angharad Rees
Actress who first appeared as Sharon Watts in EastEnders in 1985	Letitia Dean
Artist who designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo	salvador dali
As food, the stomach lining of a cow or other ruminant	TRIPE
Ascorbic acid is the main cure for this disease	SCURVY
Breed of horse often used in dressage and show jumping	WESTPHALIAN
Capital of Italy's Umbria region	PERUGIA
Church festival celebrated on January 6	EPIPHANY
Device which amplifies microwaves	MASER
Forerunners of electric refrigerators	ICEBOXES
Iceland's "ring road", Route 1, was partly ____ until 2019	UNPAVED
In binomial nomenclature, "sempervirens" denotes ____ plants	EVERGREEN
In Bleak House, ____ secretly marries Richard Carstone	Ada Clare
In camping, ____ are supported by poles or frames at each end	ridge tents
London district reached by a southern extension of the Docklands Light Railway in 1999	LEWISHAM
Monument at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle	arc de triomphe
Not subjected to hindrance	UNIMPEDED
Of a court case, rejected	DISMISSED
Old name for a painter of portraits or miniatures	LIMNER
Prime minister of Canada, 1968-79 and 1980-84	Pierre Trudeau
Racing driver who took over the French Ligier team in 1997	Alain Prost
Rome's Trevi Fountain was turned off and draped in black after the death of this actor in 1996	Marcello Mastroianni
Salad greens related to chicory	ENDIVES
Sci-fi author who created the minisaga, a story of just 50 words	Brian Aldiss
Scottish singer-songwriter who fronted new wave band the Tourists	Annie Lennox
Singer who made her film acting debut in The Bodyguard	Whitney Houston
Sitcom which was a sequel to Till Death Us Do Part	In Sickness and in Health
The BBC's chief news correspondent, 1989-2003	Kate Adie
The bobcat is a type of ____	LYNX
The imprisoned banker in The Shawshank Redemption	Andy Dufresne
The inner peel of a citrus fruit	PITH
The structure which houses Big Ben	Elizabeth Tower
The USA's second largest state	TEXAS
Tony ____ was Spandau Ballet's lead singer	HADLEY
Tool typically used to fix or remove spark plugs	box spanner
Umbrian city whose cathedral has a west front designed by Lorenzo Maitani	ORVIETO
Upper arm bones	HUMERI
VW model named after a wind from North Africa	SCIROCCO
What absolute power does absolutely, according to Lord Acton	CORRUPTS
What Caesar reportedly said after his Pontic campaign	veni vidi vici
____, Sweet Charlotte (1964) featured Mary Astor in her final film role	Hush Hush