The Times Specialist May 17 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist Puzzle - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 214 May 17 2020 Crossword Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 214
Clues	Answers
1960s pop singer who appeared in two Carry On films, and guest-starred as the medium Shyanna in a 2019 EastEnders episode	Anita Harris
A “leaver”, before the 2017 referendum campaign	EUROSCEPTIC
A provincial governor of ancient Persia	SATRAP
A skier’s padded trousers, held up by shoulder straps	SALOPETTES
A ____ window is hinged on one side	casemented
Actor who starred in the 1960s films A Kind of Loving, Georgy Girl and Women in Love	Alan Bates
An Evening Standard review calls Michael Frayn’s ____ Off “the funniest farce ever written”	NOISES
Ancestor	FOREFATHER
Broadway musical based on an American comic strip	ANNIE
Camra’s favourite tipple	real ale
Cheap home used during the post-1945 housing shortage	PREFAB
Composer Schoenberg, or golfer Palmer	ARNOLD
Dressing with capers and pickles, usually served with fish	Tartar sauce
Dynasty character originally played by Joan Collins	ALEXIS
Edible marine gastropod, also called “ear shell”	ABALONE
Extract from gall nuts used as a fixative in dyeing	Tannic acid
Foodstuff, of which beluga is the most expensive kind	CAVIARE
Fruit covering; an unseen hazard	Banana skin
Grammatical case for the object of a sentence	ACCUSATIVE
Great or Little East Anglian river	OUSE
Hungarian body of water, the largest in central Europe	Lake Balaton
In heraldry, another name for a St Andrew’s cross	SALTIRE
Inflammation of nasal air cavities	SINUSITIS
Its groves are the world of learning	ACADEME
James Baldwin’s semi-autobiographical novel about John Grimes’s relationship with his family and the church	Go Tell It on the Mountain
Knighted Czech-born playwright who wrote Jumpers and Travesties	Tom Stoppard
Larry ____ played Archie Mitchell in EastEnders	LAMB
Named train service from Paddington to Temple Meads, inaugurated by the Great Western Railway in 1935	bristolian
Neck swellings created by enlarged thyroid glands	goitres
Nelson lost an eye during a siege of this Corsican seaport in 1794	CALVI
Novel by PC Wren about the adventures of three English brothers in the French foreign legion	Beau Geste
Roman province in the southwest of the Iberian peninsula	LUSITANIA
Russian statesman who introduced the liberalising 28As of glasnost and perestroika	GORBACHEV
Sweet white from the south of the Bordeaux wine region, sometimes served with 11D	SAUTERNES
The 1832 ____ Act extended the franchise in Britain, especially in industrial towns	REFORM
The boastful coward of commedia dell’arte	SCARAMOUCH
The domed London ____, in Marylebone Road, is now part of the neighbouring Madame Tussauds	PLANETARIUM
The first of seven temporary facilities with this name was opened at London’s ExCel Centre on April 3	Nightingale Hospital
The Moluccas, Florida Keys or Aleutian Islands	ARCHIPELAGO
The reason for Joseph and Mary’s journey to Jerusalem	CENSUS
Twelfth and final studio album by the Beatles, which was commercially successful but received mixed reviews	Let It Be
US actress who starred in the films Of Human Bondage (1934) and Jezebel	Bette Davis
US novelist, born in Manchester, who wrote The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett
West Indies bowler, first spinner to take 300 Test wickets	Lance Gibbs
Where the reaction of the loggionisti to a singer’s performance can be infamously critical	la scala
____ software is old, but hard to replace owing to wide use	LEGACY