The Times Specialist April 12 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 209
Clues	Answers
“American literature has always been ____” (Salman Rushdie)	IMMIGRANT
“It follows […] that the best men must ____ with the best women in as many cases as possible and the worst with the worst in the fewest.” (Plato)	COHABIT
“On some ____ esteem is based” (Moliere)	PREFERENCE
1932 film which won an Oscar for best film, its only nomination	Grand Hotel
1973 Jackson 5 album, the first to feature all five brothers on lead vocals	get it together
1991 album by Chris Rea	AUBERGE
A duty or responsibility	ONUS
A large oven tray	dripping pan
A significant sum is nothing to ____	sniff at
A wind of force 12 on the original Beaufort scale	HURRICANE
According to a supplier’s website, ____ bring the magic of the stage even closer to you	opera glasses
Actor who played Starsky in Starsky & Hutch	Paul Michael Glaser
After Izmir, the second-largest Turkish city on the Mediterranean coast	ANTALYA
An expression of incredulity	as if
Baked in a pastry wrapping	en croute
Barren	non-fertile
Bird to which adjective “corvine” applies	CROW
British equestrian who won the Badminton Horse Trials a record six times	Lucinda Green
British rower, current coxless pairs Olympic champion with partner Helen Glower	Heather Stanning
Character played by Antonio Fargas in Starsky & Hutch	Huggy Bear
Circuit at which Nigel Mansell had his first Formula One Grand Prix win	Brands Hatch
Colourless orange-flavoured liqueur, produced in France	COINTREAU
Device which produces pinhole images	camera obscura
Forty Years On (1968) was the first play by ____	Alan Bennett
Host of Mock the Week since 2005	Dara O Briain
If you ____ in a role, it may not have been part of a plan	end up
If your usual cook has gone out for the evening, you might ____ a takeaway pizza	put in an order for
Image filename extension first used in 1986	TIF
In jousting, a lance charge against an opponent	TILT
Irish jockey who won the Grand National on Papillon and Hedgehunter	Ruby Walsh
Item of ballet attire named after a French childish word for “bottom”	TUTU
J Robert ____ was the first director of the Los Alamos Laboratory where atomic bombs were developed	OPPENHEIMER
Lack of care or wisdom	IMPRUDENCE
Machine used to make the male part of a common wood joint	TENONER
Michael ____ won the Formula One World Championship seven times	SCHUMACHER
North American lager with fractional freezing in its production process	ice beer
One with a reputation for being unscrupulous	a bad lot
Opened the mouth wide	GAPED
Part of a cereal plant which stores seeds	EAR
Phrase reflecting UK pop culture of the 1990s	Cool Britannia
Stand-up comedian whose autobiography Straight Outta Crawley was published in 2018	Romesh Ranganathan
Star Wars character originally voiced by Frank Oz	YODA
The capital of Madeira	FUNCHAL
The first line of Moby-Dick	Call me Ishmael
The lowest social stratum in a community	UNDERCLASS
The postal service, as opposed to electronic communication	snail mail
The title of a newspaper or magazine as it appears in print	MASTHEAD
This film inspired the TV series Dixon of Dock Green	The Blue Lamp