The Times - Specialist - July 10 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 326
Clues	Answers
"Beauty is a pair of ____s that makes you wanna die" (Zappa)	SHOE
"The Axis powers intend to destroy democracy; it is ____ to them" (Franklin Roosevelt)	ANATHEMA
"The smith, a mighty man is he / With large and ____ hands" (Longfellow)	SINEWY
1965 war film starring and directed by Frank Sinatra	None But The Brave
1979 album and single by Status Quo	Whatever You Want
1993 single by the Sisters of Mercy, their last despite still touring today	Under The Gun
1998 romantic fantasy film starring Brad Pitt as Death	Meet Joe Black
Actor who played Lord Mountbatten in The Crown	Charles Dance
Actress, Gene Kelly's co-star in Singin' in the Rain	Debbie Reynolds
Allegorical genre which emerged after the Black Death	Danse Macabre
Assumed or promised	UNDERTAKEN
August ____'s translations are the standard German versions of 17 Shakespeare plays	SCHLEGEL
Body whose responsibilities include regulating sewerage in England and Wales	OFWAT
Carrot, coriander or parsnip, for example	UMBELLIFER
Central character of folklore tales by Joel Chandler Harris	Uncle Remus
Church festival commemorating the events in Luke 2 which include the text of 7D	CANDLEMAS
City in which Mother Teresa was born	SKOPJE
Connective tissue tumours	sarcomata
Device used to send Morse code messages, especially from ships	aldis lamp
English poet who died shortly after leading part of a rebel army in a campaign against the Ottoman Empire	lord byron
Fashionable shift of the 1950s	sack dress
Functioning properly	in working order
Gym exercise aimed at strengthening abdominal muscles	sit-up
In an old military joke, and an Irving Berlin song, a mother says that her son is alone in being ____ at a parade	in step
In one English spelling, a Middle Eastern prince	EMEER
Interpreted a dream or a riddle	reded
Island whose mountain summits include the Inaccessible Pinnacle, the only Munro needing rock climbing skills	SKYE
Italian cardinal and mercenary leader, the main antagonist in the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood	Cesare Borgia
James Bond's nemesis in The Man with the Golden Gun	SCARAMANGA
Mainly historical derogatory name for a supporter of the Oxford Movement	PUSEYITE
MI5 was based at this prison, 1939-1940	wormwood scrubs
Odorous device used by practical jokers	stink bomb
One who supports a cause	ESPOUSER
Printing process which originated in China around AD1000	silk screen
Smallest Hebrew letter, used metaphorically like "iota"	YOD
Swedish former Formula One driver who won the 2022 Indianapolis 500	Marcus Ericsson
Swiss folk hero and subject of a Rossini opera	William Tell
Syria's highest point, on its border with Lebanon	Mount Hermon
Terrestrial juvenile phase of a newt's life cycle	EFT
The evensong canticle ____ is also known as the Song of Simeon	nunc dimittis
The harmonies used by the Beatles in Please Please Me are said to be influenced by those in this Everly Brothers No 1 single	Cathy's Clown
The interpretation of dreams	oneiroscopy
Those who believe an embryo develops progressively from an egg cell, not from a tiny version of a whole organism	epigenesists
To an American, running on petrol	gas-powered
To invest (in clothing)	ENROBE
World heavyweight champion defeated by Cassius Clay in 1964	Sonny Liston