The Times Specialist Sunday March 15 2020 Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 205
Clues	Answers
1934 Nazi purge, in which Ernst Röhm was one of the best-known people killed	night of the long knives
1988 film which recalled the “golden age of American animation”	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
A doubles game similar to hand pelota, played in some British schools	Eton fives
A dual carriageway with controlled access, or an extensive communications network	SUPERHIGHWAY
A patent medicine, or a favourite solution for other problems	NOSTRUM
A toothed whale with one notable tooth	NARWHAL
A very young bird	NESTLING
Author of the Balkan and Levant trilogies	Olivia Manning
Boxing punch often landed on the chin at close range	UPPERCUT
British overseas territory comprising two parts of a Caribbean coral archipelago	Turks and Caicos Islands
Canadian name for a bar in a hotel or tavern	beer parlour
European “plum brandy” made from damsons	slivovic
Fabric produced in Donegal and the Outer Hebrides	TWEED
Family of typefaces, intended to be legible at small sizes	lucida
First female Jamaican winner of Olympic sprint gold, in the 2004 200m final	Veronica Campbell-Brown
Forename shared by composers Pachelbel and Hummel	JOHANN
Game like hurling, played by women	CAMOGIE
German town with a critical Rhine bridge captured by US forces in the closing days of the Second World War	REMAGEN
I may be engaged in climbing hills	bottom gear
Instrument used to measure angles of slope	INCLINOMETER
Jocular term for a very religious person	God-botherer
Joseph ____ was an essayist, poet and politician, and a co-founder of The Spectator	ADDISON
Joshua ____ was the first president of the Royal Academy	REYNOLDS
Large cloth used to protect furniture during redecoration	dust sheet
Light-hearted pleasure or enjoyment	good fun
Likely to show anger or irritation	WASPISH
Make unnecessary objections	CAVIL
Making the sound of a crow	CAWING
Niche in a mosque wall, indicating the direction of Mecca	MIHRAB
One of only two sailors, and six people in any sport, to win individual gold at four consecutive summer Olympics	Ben Ainslie
One of the three classical orders of architecture	IONIC
Private place to which very few people are admitted	SANCTUM
Rapid growth, often of something undesirable	PROLIFERATION
Russian writer of short stories and (more famously in translation) plays	Anton Chekhov
Selection often including sweet sherry, port, champagne, burgundy and claret	wine gums
Slow march of the Grenadier Guards, taken from a Handel opera about a Roman general of the same name, who defeated Hannibal	SCIPIO
Someone in this is worth adding to your quiz team	the know
Someone who ____ something does it thoroughly	goes to town on
Strong fabric in strip form, used in military apparel	WEBBING
Surname of the 30th US president, known as “Silent Cal”	COOLIDGE
Swiss dish made with grated potatoes	ROSTI
The capital and largest city of Croatia	ZAGREB
The lowest choice in many product rating systems	one star
True facts, or a description of something despicable	low-down
US automobile brand, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan	DODGE
William Walton’s ____ concerto was written for Lionel Tertis, but premiered by Paul Hindemith	VIOLA