The Times - Specialist - July 3 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 325
Clues	Answers
"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 despot	absolute ruler
A malicious written or verbal attack	hatchet job
A shrimp, crab or lobster	DECAPOD
A structure protecting plants; informally, a military prison	GLASSHOUSE
A symptom of this hereditary disease is difficulty in absorbing nutrients from food	cystic fibrosis
An important contest in cycling or horse racing	CLASSIC
Austrian-born winner of the 1945 Nobel physics prize for his exclusion principle	Wolfgang Pauli
Author whose best-known character first appeared in an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995	Helen Fielding
Boise is the capital of this US state	IDAHO
Central character of Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel of 1748	Clarissa Harlowe
County in which many Hardy novels are set	DORSET
English actress remembered for her husky voice and double entendres	Fenella Fielding
English spelling of a name for soccer teams in Bucharest, Tirana and Zagreb	DYNAMO
Equipment on which engines etc are trialled before production	test bed
First sequel to a novel about a red-haired Canadian girl	Anne of Avonlea
French stew, usually of beef, with wine and herbs	DAUBE
German group who had a 1984 hit with Big in Japan	alphaville
Great Britain or England, in Australian and NZ slang	Old Dart
Holder of the female 100m and 200m British records	Dina Asher-Smith
In a fugue, a section with overlapping contrapuntal voices	STRETTO
In Greek mythology, the brother of Electra	ORESTES
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 crossword	SCHEMA
Informally, a portable music source that preceded the Walkman and iPod	TRANNIE
Informally, in the US, to achieve profitable success	hit pay dirt
Iron-tipped spear used historically in southern Africa	ASSEGAI
Italian baritone who sang as Scarpia in many Tosca performances with Maria Callas	Tito Gobbi
Mainly North American name for a notebook	scratch pad
Musical genre popularised by Saturday Night Fever	DISCO
Mystery thriller film set in swinging Sixties London, winner of the 1967 Palme d'Or at Cannes	blow-up
Palma is the capital of this archipelago	Balearic Islands
Perchance	UNINTENTIONALLY
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 cent	pay rise
Roger Moore's first James Bond film	Live and Let Die
State whose capital, Salvador, was Brazil's first capital city	BAHIA
Stopping of parliamentary activity without dissolution	prorogation
The earliest known printing of this US slang term for "excellent" was in 1951	NEATO
The little ____ is an aquatic bird also called "dabchick"	GREBE
The only character seen in all of CS Lewis's Narnia books	ASLAN
The second of David Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" albums	HEROES
The Smiths and the "Madchester" scene both influenced this musical genre	BRITPOP
To verbally intimidate an opponent in cricket	SLEDGE
Toto's debut single of 1978	Hold the Line
Where to see Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights	Museo del Prado
World ____ are events showcasing national achievements, held quinquennially since 2000	EXPOS