The Times - Specialist - June 26 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 324
Clues	Answers
"Albinoni's ____" was mainly by Remo Giazotto	ADAGIO
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a ____ and curious volume" (Edgar Allan Poe)	QUAINT
"____ Avenue" is a clichéd suburban street name	ACACIA
1970s Trollope-based BBC TV costume drama series	The Pallisers
A huge fan	ADORER
A letter in the Nato alphabet which is also a type of bet	YANKEE
A name for the fifth proposition of Euclid, considered harder than the previous four	pons asinorum
According to the gov.uk website, the UK has been a ____ of electricity since 2004	net importer
Actress who Fred Astaire somewhat reluctantly named as his favourite dancing partner	Rita Hayworth
Approximately 2,500,000-5,000BC	Stone Age
Biblical king of Israel who married Jezebel	AHAB
Carlos Castaneda wrote books about training from a ____	SHAMAN
City known as the oil capital of Europe	ABERDEEN
Country containing much of the Pamir mountains	TAJIKISTAN
EF _____ created the fictional characters Mapp and Lucia	BENSON
Fleet Street church whose tower supposedly inspired tiered wedding cakes	St Bride's
Former stately home near the northern edge of Hampstead Heath	Kenwood House
French-born composer Arthur ____'s best-known work is Pacific 231, an orchestral portrait of a steam engine	HONEGGER
Governmental restriction of ideas, eg by censorship	thought control
Gravesend has the world's oldest surviving cast iron ____	PIER
Historically in England, the offence of supporting papal supremacy	praemunire
In formal Christian worship, a singer of solo passages responded to by the choir or congregation	CANTOR
In Latin, of sound mind	compos mentis
Informally, one metaphorically "in another universe"	space cadet
Italian form of streaky bacon, often rolled	PANCETTA
ITV series in which George Cole starred as Arthur Daley	MINDER
Morally obliged	BEHOLDEN
Most intelligent, or careless?	QUICKEST
Name for the ace that is always the highest trump in Ombre	SPADILLE
Name usually given to the daughter of Herodias, who danced in two gospels	SALOME
Novelist who popularised the idea of "U and non-U" language	Nancy Mitford
Only Australian to win the Nobel literature prize, in 1973	Patrick White
Oregon's nickname	Beaver State
Riding style used by the Queen at Trooping the Colour before 1987	side-saddle
Rock band founded in Bradford in 1980, still active and still fronted by Justin Sullivan	New Model Army
Shaw play about a Salvation Army officer	major barbara
Site of a mathematical knight's tour problem	CHESSBOARD
Taking steps in response to something	acting on
The Author of Life of Pi	Yann Martel
The capital city of Colombia	BOGOTA
The dried leaves of this shrub are chewed as a stimulant in South America	COCA
The French name for a former province in southwest France	gascogne
The only game ____ is the only option worth considering	in town
The usual packaging of this cow's milk cheese from the Jura mountains is effectively a spruce wood bucket	VACHERIN
To achieve the desired result	do the job
TV series filmed in Videcolor and Supermarionation	THUNDERBIRDS
____ played Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote	Angela Lansbury
____ sheep originally came from an island in the St Kilda archipelago	Soay