The Times Specialist Sunday March 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist Crossword - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 203 March 1 2020 Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 203
Clues	Answers
"And ____ canker lives in sweetest bud. / All men make faults"(Shakespeare, Sonnet 35)	LOATHSOME
"We are in Afghanistan because this is ____ necessary war" (David Miliband, writing in 2009)	every bit a
"____ is a contradiction in terms" (Groucho Marx)	military intelligence
1966 Elvis Presley single, released with Spinout on the other side	All That I Am
2019 film, a live-action version of a 1941 Walt Disney film	DUMBO
A light form of lava often used as an abrasive	PUMICE
A unit of atmospheric pressure	BAR
Acted like Baron Munchausen	spun a yarn
Actor famous for playing Count Dracula	Christopher Lee
An alternative to "annoy" often seen in the past tense	DISGRUNTLE
An Appalachian yokel	HILLBILLY
An area of open grassland, also a measure of yarn	LEA
Bill ____'s Croydon North West by-election win in 1981 was the first parliamentary victory for the SDP-Liberal Alliance	PITT
Boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to win his first world heavyweight title	George Foreman
Bread from the northeast, often served with a savoury filling	stottie cake
British manufacturing company which abandoned its electric car project last October	DYSON
Coined during the First World War, a name for the condition commonly abbreviated as PTSD	shell shock
Collection of 39 essays by G K Chesterton, published in 1910	Alarms and Discursions
Del Shannon's first single, a 1961 No 1 hit in the USA and UK	RUNAWAY
Estuary in the US states of Maryland and Virginia	Chesapeake Bay
Fasteners with hexagonal sockets	Allen screws
Final single released by the Beatles	The Long and Winding Road
Foul-smelling weasel relative, Mustela putorius	POLECAT
In the USA, "heinies"	BACKSIDES
In theology, relating to matters of death, judgement etc	ESCHATOLOGICAL
Irrational fear of open or public places	AGORAPHOBIA
Italian city reached at the end of the longest one-day race in professional cycling	san remo
Large marine creature sometimes called blackfish	pilot whale
Magazine such as Good Housekeeping or National Geographic	MONTHLY
Marine reptile, common during the Jurassic period	PLESIOSAUR
Mary ____ won Olympic pentathlon gold in 1972	PETERS
Name for several rivers in southwest England, including two tributaries of the Taw and three of the Axe	YEO
Part of the eye surrounded by the iris	PUPIL
Person used to advantage by another	cat's-paw
Pseudonym of former Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Wharton	peter simple
Remove most of the moisture from something, especially clothing	damp-dry
Shipping forecast sea area including the Bristol Channel	LUNDY
Skill possessed by safe drivers and pedestrians	road sense
South African group who performed on the 1986 Paul Simon album Graceland	Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Tanker used to carry or supply fuel, water etc	BOWSER
The fruit of a rose	HIP
The longest-serving presenter of Tomorrow's World	Judith Hann
The second-largest moon of Saturn	RHEA
To disinter	EXHUME
To intend	plan on
Type of hat apparently named after a play by Victorien Sardou	FEDORA
Vegetable commonly used to fill burritos	pinto bean
____ and Ben Affleck co-wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting	Matt Damon