The Times - Specialist - October 9 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 339
Clues	Answers
"Everybody knew who I was, and nobody knew what I ____" (Colin Wilson, on the success of his first book, The Outsider)	stood for
1970s sitcom in which Beryl refused to give in to Geoffrey's desire for "Percy Filth"	The Lovers
A beau ____ is a perfect model	IDEAL
A company travelling across a desert	CARAVAN
A cord or belt, especially around a cleric's waist	CINCTURE
A frame around a window frame or door panel	SASH
An illusion in which a stationary object seems to move	autokinesis
Arabic for "book", often used as a term for a sacred book	kitab
Author whose novel Patriot Games introduced the character Jack Ryan	Tom Clancy
Church official who acts as a caretaker and attendant	VERGER
City in the Ruhr, home to the Zollverein coal mine, now part of a Unesco world heritage site	ESSEN
Coarse bobbin lace with geometrical designs	TORCHON
Content of a spirit lamp?	GENIE
Crust present during a healing process	SCAB
French writer Nicolas Chamfort's description of chance	a nickname of providence
Fruit consumers visited by Odysseus and his crew after they were blown off course	LOTOPHAGI
Great Britain's first female gymnast to win medals at the European and World Championships and the Olympic Games	Beth Tweddle
Heckled; given military accommodation	BARRACKED
In a manner showing annoyance	irritatedly
In Greek myth, a Calydonian king closely associated with wine	OENEUS
In ____ script, letters are joined rather than separate	CURSIVE
ITV sitcom starring David Jason as Peter Barnes	A Sharp Intake of Breath
Kristen Visbal's bronze statue near the New York Stock Exchange, originally placed to face down the nearby Charging Bull	Fearless Girl
Model and actress thought to be the "Uptown Girl" of the Billy Joel single	Christie Brinkley
Moorland plant named after the founder of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg, Co Donegal	St Dabeoc's heath
Noël Coward song first sung by Beatrice Lillie in 1931	Mad Dogs and Englishmen
On a square-rigged ship, a horizontal spar forward of the prow	spritsail-yard
One who aids a criminal following an offence	accessory after the fact
Onions, leeks and garlic belong to this genus	ALLIUM
Only one ____ founded the publishing firm ____ and ____	FABER
Possession of a controlling influence	powerfulness
Speaker of the language devised by Ludwig Zamenhof	ESPERANTIST
Supermarket chain founded by the Albrecht brothers	ALDI
The "King of the High Cs"	Luciano Pavarotti
The capital of India	new delhi
The first English football club to have foreign ownership	Tranmere Rovers
The Gulf of ____ is connected to the Persian Gulf by the Strait of Hormuz	OMAN
The Irish equivalent of usury	gombeen
The native grey and the naturalised red-legged are Britain's only types of this bird	PARTRIDGE
Thomas ____ was a Cavalier poet favoured by Charles I	CAREW
Thor Heyerdahl's raft	Kon-Tiki
Very disappointed __ a phrase associated with football	sick as a parrot
Waxbill widely kept as a cage bird (one of various names derived from the city in eastern India from which they were originally supplied)	AMADAVAT
Words that ____ had corresponding vowel sounds	assonated
____ Mountbatten-Windsor is currently sixth in the line of succession to the British throne	ARCHIE
____ the End of the Morning is a 1967 Michael Frayn novel about newspaper staff working on crosswords and other miscellaneous content	TOWARDS