The Times - Specialist - August 7 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 330
Clues	Answers
"Authority intoxicates, / And makes mere sots of magistrates; / The ____ of it invade the brain" (Samuel Butler)	FUMES
"Idle hands are the Devil's ____" (English proverb)	playthings
1982 film in which Dustin Hoffman's character uses deception to secure a soap opera role	TOOTSIE
1991 film starring Michael J Fox as aspiring surgeon Benjamin Stone	Doc Hollywood
2001 action film starring Steven Seagal and rapper DMX	Exit Wounds
A common name for various notably prickly shrubs	Christ's thorn
A judge's review of evidence given to the jury	summing-up
A Lancashire ____ is traditionally served with pickled red cabbage	HOTPOT
A rowdy reveller	CAROUSER
Ancient Greece's "father of geometry"	EUCLID
Ben ____ was the main writer of the 1920s and 1930s Aldwych farces	TRAVERS
Decoration of furniture with veneers, mainly of wood	MARQUETRY
Footballer who co-hosted Match of the Day, 1992-2014	Alan Hansen
Game show first seen on British TV sets in 1951	What's My Line
Garden game involving at least a dozen shots per player	clock golf
German romanesque churches often have ____ at both ends of the nave	APSES
Hamlet character with a name previously used in The Odyssey	LAERTES
In 2018, British cyclist ____ became the third rider, after Eddy Mercx and Bernard Hinault, to hold all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously	Chris Froome
In America, a luxury car noted for handling rather than comfort	sports sedan
In social insects, a distinct form like queen or worker	CASTE
Informally, anaesthetised	UNDER
Irish poet who wrote the lyrics for The Last Rose of Summer and The Minstrel Boy	Thomas Moore
Joe ____'s plays include Loot and Entertaining Mr Sloane	ORTON
Leading Shakespeare actress in late 19th-century Britain	Ellen Terry
Lionel Messi made his professional debut for FC ____	PORTO
Main protagonist of children's books by Tove Jansson	moomintroll
Measurement taken from crotch to ankle	inside leg
Not suitable	UNAPT
Old-fashioned or conservative behaviour	FOGYISM
One of two names for a tissue transplant from an unrelated member of the same species	homograft
Piglet: Do you think it's a-a-a Woozle? Pooh: It may be. ____ it is, and ____ it isn't	SOMETIMES
Plant recommended by Culpeper to cure dimness of sight	EYEBRIGHT
Prolific actor whose sole Oscar was for his role as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter	Christopher Walken
Purple ____ was once thought to improve dairy cow yields	milk vetch
River which empties into the Arabian Sea near Karachi	INDUS
Rodney's girlfriend, later wife, in Only Fools and Horses	CASSANDRA
Russian novelist Ivan ____ created the character Oblomov, a personification of procrastination and idleness	goncharov
Singer who recorded I Know Him So Well (from Chess) with Barbara Dickson	Elaine Paige
Small bird, widespread in much of Europe, and found in ancient pinewoods in northern Scotland	crested tit
Someone who ____ does not play safe	runs risks
Someone who ____ made a rather dishonest attempt to get something or impress someone	tried it on
Spaghetti Junction lies in this suburb of Birmingham	erdington
Surrey town named from Old English for "river-source"	EWELL
The 2013 ____ Dealers Act made it illegal to pay cash for ____	scrap metal
The capital of Brazil, 1763-1960	Rio de Janeiro
The first name of the singer-songwriter known as Duffy	AIMEE
The Mysterious ___ at Styles was Agatha Christie's first book	AFFAIR
The world's largest bird of prey	Andean condor
To make a security no longer tradeable at a stock exchange	DELIST
Troublesome friends may be "emotionally ____"	DRAINING