The Times - Specialist - October 2 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 338
Clues	Answers
"I have be-dimmed / The ____ sun" (Prospero in The Tempest)	NOONTIDE
"People would see me and Simon laughing […] and they couldn't understand how we could be like that and still be in this ____ band" (Robert Smith, of the Cure)	angst-ridden
"We are able to create a range of climatic conditions in our seven display ____" (Oxford Botanic Gardens website)	GLASSHOUSES
"____ has come of age and you have nothing to use but your chains" (Time Out in 1980)	alternative comedy
"____ will be going away shortly" — recent poetic statement about changes in Microsoft Outlook	coming soon
1964 romantic comedy, the last of three films starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day	Send Me No Flowers
A bird named after its diet	carrion crow
A horse race won ____ is close to a dead heat	by a nose
A laser pointer's light power output is often up to five ____s	MILLIWATT
A papal conclave is possibly the oldest form of ____ still used	ELECTION
A phrase created by mishearing, such as "damp squid" or "preying mantis"	EGGCORN
A ____ steak is often called "sirloin" in the USA	RUMP
Al ____ won four Olympic discus titles, 1956-68	OERTER
Ancient region where cuneiform writing was used	MESOPOTAMIA
At official exchange rates, a pound is currently worth about 470 Nigerian ____	Nairas
Community First ____s are local volunteers who may attend an emergency call before paramedics	RESPONDER
Done with sincere intentions	in good faith
English equivalent of "casus belli"	act of war
Flower shown on Austria's two eurocent coin	EDELWEISS
Historian who has been called "the rudest man in Britain"	David Starkey
In North American informal usage, to stake everything	bet the farm
In VAT calculations, ____ tax is deducted from VAT on sold goods or services	INPUT
India's ____ Fort is one of this city's two Unesco World Heritage sites	AGRA
Informally, a very cheap means of transportation	Shanks's pony
Italian cheese similar to Limburger and Pont-l'Évèque	TALEGGIO
Maria Gaetana ____ (1718-99) from Milan was the first woman to write a maths textbook	AGNESI
Monteverdi's L'____ is the oldest opera regularly performed	ORFEO
Mrs Slocombe's assistant in Are You Being Served?	Miss Brahms
Nicholas ____ wrote The Cruel Sea in 1951	MONSARRAT
Of text, converted by a system like pinyin	romanised
Oh ____ is the unabbreviated name for the first song in the musical Oklahoma!	What a Beautiful Morning
Oven-controlling device whose name was superseded by "gas mark"	REGULO
Places where sailors keep their stuff on board	ditty boxes
Prison reformer once seen on Bank of England £5 notes	Elizabeth Fry
Publishing company whose website calls its founders "two dashing young entrepreneurs"	Mills and Boon
Secrets of success	X factors
Su capital es Sevilla	ANDALUCIA
Teletubby who likes to play with an orange rubber ball	laa-laa
The city where the Nobel peace prize is awarded	OSLO
The ___ was a government owned bookmaker, 1928-2011	TOTE
To record something in writing	note down
Verse: poetaster; painting: ____	DAUBER
West Side Story song with the line "Make of our vows one last vow"	One Hand One Heart
What ____ is not yet decided	remains to be seen
____'s disastrous adventures were first seen on TV in 1973	Frank Spencer
____, "the mighty atom", won the European championships 1500m in 1938 and 5000m in 1946, and the (9-mile) English national cross-country title in 1948	sydney wooderson