The Times - Specialist - July 3 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 325
CluesAnswers
"He play'd an ancient ditty ____ mute, / In Provence call'd, ‘La belle dame sans merci'" (Keats)long since
"The main ____ of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history" (Harold Wilson)ESSENTIALS
"You've had a cream of a ____ dream" (Sweeney Agonistes, TS Eliot)NIGHTMARE
A dictator or despotabsolute ruler
A malicious written or verbal attackhatchet job
A shrimp, crab or lobsterDECAPOD
A structure protecting plants; informally, a military prisonGLASSHOUSE
A symptom of this hereditary disease is difficulty in absorbing nutrients from foodcystic fibrosis
An important contest in cycling or horse racingCLASSIC
Austrian-born winner of the 1945 Nobel physics prize for his exclusion principleWolfgang Pauli
Author whose best-known character first appeared in an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995Helen Fielding
Boise is the capital of this US stateIDAHO
Central character of Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel of 1748Clarissa Harlowe
County in which many Hardy novels are setDORSET
English actress remembered for her husky voice and double entendresFenella Fielding
English spelling of a name for soccer teams in Bucharest, Tirana and ZagrebDYNAMO
Equipment on which engines etc are trialled before productiontest bed
First sequel to a novel about a red-haired Canadian girlAnne of Avonlea
French stew, usually of beef, with wine and herbsDAUBE
German group who had a 1984 hit with Big in Japanalphaville
Great Britain or England, in Australian and NZ slangOld Dart
Holder of the female 100m and 200m British recordsDina Asher-Smith
In a fugue, a section with overlapping contrapuntal voicesSTRETTO
In Greek mythology, the brother of ElectraORESTES
In IT, a set of rules about a type of data, such as the presence of a grid and clues in a file representing a crosswordSCHEMA
Informally, a portable music source that preceded the Walkman and iPodTRANNIE
Informally, in the US, to achieve profitable successhit pay dirt
Iron-tipped spear used historically in southern AfricaASSEGAI
Italian baritone who sang as Scarpia in many Tosca performances with Maria CallasTito Gobbi
Mainly North American name for a notebookscratch pad
Musical genre popularised by Saturday Night FeverDISCO
Mystery thriller film set in swinging Sixties London, winner of the 1967 Palme d'Or at Cannesblow-up
Palma is the capital of this archipelagoBalearic Islands
PerchanceUNINTENTIONALLY
Poetic repetition of sounds, as used in Poe's "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"ASSONANCE
Possible result of (UK) annual inflation over 9 per centpay rise
Roger Moore's first James Bond filmLive and Let Die
State whose capital, Salvador, was Brazil's first capital cityBAHIA
Stopping of parliamentary activity without dissolutionprorogation
The earliest known printing of this US slang term for "excellent" was in 1951NEATO
The little ____ is an aquatic bird also called "dabchick"GREBE
The only character seen in all of CS Lewis's Narnia booksASLAN
The second of David Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" albumsHEROES
The Smiths and the "Madchester" scene both influenced this musical genreBRITPOP
To verbally intimidate an opponent in cricketSLEDGE
Toto's debut single of 1978Hold the Line
Where to see Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly DelightsMuseo del Prado
World ____ are events showcasing national achievements, held quinquennially since 2000EXPOS

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