The Times - Specialist - October 23 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 341
Clues	Answers
Actor who starred as Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford in two long-running TV series	James Garner
Actor whose TV roles include Doyle and Judge John Deed	Martin Shaw
Author whose only novel is one of the first to be written from the perspective of a non-human character	Anna Sewell
BBC Breakfast co-presenter who replaced Dan Walker this year	Jon Kay
Burning desire to steal	KLEPTOMANIA
Capital city, home to the Buddhist temple, the Great Sacred Stupa	VIENTIANE
Central London terminus of “Javelin” train services for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics	St Pancras
Children's playground jumping game	HOPSCOTCH
Cocktail of gin and vermouth	MARTINI
Cole Porter show about the production of a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew	kiss me kate
Couple depicted in at least eleven extant paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder	Adam and Eve
Egyptian pharaoh ____ IV changed his name to Akhenaten during his attempt to introduce a monotheistic religion	AMENHOTEP
Former South Africa and Warwickshire fast bowler, nicknamed “The White Lightning”	Allan Donald
In English, ____s about age precede those about colour	ADJECTIVE
Informally, the drug PCP used illegally as a hallucinogen	Angel dust
Island capital, location of the baroque Co-Cathedral of St John	VALLETTA
Jeanie's ____ was light in a Stephen Foster song	Brown hair
Manufacturer of bathroom and plumbing fixtures, with its largest factory in a Staffordshire village	Armitage Shanks
Massachusetts port famed for its witchcraft trials of 1692	SALEM
Microsoft's UK HQ is just outside this Berkshire town	READING
Mostly extinct British Army rank with flag-carrying duties	ENSIGN
Netherlands monarch from 1980 until her abdication in 2013	Queen Beatrix
New Zealand's first female prime minister	Jacinda Ardern
Nietzsche's name for an ideal human of the future, with values of their own rather than those of the past	UBERMENSCH
Old Testament book between the Song of Solomon and Jeremiah	ISAIAH
Recent linguistic creation such as chillax, staycation or selfie	NEOLOGISM
Scottish folk hero played by Liam Neeson in a 1995 film	Rob Roy
Shortened old name for the crew's quarters on a ship	fo'c'sle
Slim, in a simile that was used by Chaucer about a horse	Thin as a rake
Sweden's standard monetary unit having the value of 100 ore	KRONA
Tasmania's former name	Van Diemen's Land
Terence Conran's home furnishing company which opened its first store in Chelsea in 1964	HABITAT
The brightest star in the constellation Aquila	ALTAIR
The content of row eight of the ____ table is hypothetical	PERIODIC
The Japanese art of flower arranging	IKEBANA
The Mayan city of Chichen Itza was built on this peninsula	YUCATAN
The next partial ____ visible from the UK is on October 25	solar eclipse
The only kind of edible nut which is green	PISTACHIO
The setting of Flaubert's Un coeur simple; a cheese, probably the oldest still made in Normandy	Pont l'Eveque
They trade with overseas companies	IMPORTERS
Timepiece with a gnomon	SUNDIAL
Where tzatziki and dolmades might be served	TAVERNA
William Whiting's hymn ____ Strong to Save has been used by the UK and US navies for more than a century	Eternal Father
With 22A, the co-presenter of BBC Breakfast	Sally Nugent
____ in Funen, choral and orchestral work by Carl Nielsen	SPRINGTIME
____ Weekes was one of cricket's “three Ws”	EVERTON