The Times - Specialist - May 31 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 216
Clues	Answers
"About the sixth hour, when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that ____ which is called supper" (Love's Labour's Lost)	NOURISHMENT
"The moon's an ____ thief" (Timon of Athens)	ARRANT
A large animal; slang for money	RHINO
A regular presenter of the world's longest-running children's TV show, from 1962 to 1972	Valerie Singleton
A semicircular moulding, especially at the top or bottom of a column	ASTRAGAL
A small island in a river	EYOT
A tool used for cutting and shaping wood	ADZE
Actor whose most famous role was that of Alf Garnett	Warren Mitchell
Also known as Bury Park, Luton Town FC's former home ground	Dunstable Road
Ancient Turkish city, the birthplace of St Paul	TARSUS
Canova sculpture in St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum	Three Graces
Character from a symbol font (computing) or, in America, a wild party	WINGDING
Denoting a physical action stimulated by thought	Ideomotor
Fictional diarist created by Helen Fielding for a newspaper column in 1995	bridget jones
Film director who won two Oscars for Gandhi	Richard Attenborough
French fashion designer who co-hosted the 1990s TV series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes	Jean-Paul Gaultier
Fruit sometimes called a "shaved peach"	NECTARINE
Grange Hill character given a spin-off series, 1983-1985	Tucker Jenkins
Greek city linked to Epirus by the country's only undersea tunnel	preveza
Greek god of the sun	APOLLO
Henry David ____ wrote Walden	THOREAU
Informally, the Deutsches Reich, 1918-1933	Weimar Republic
Just before going to bed	last thing
Location of Caledonian MacBrayne's busiest terminal	OBAN
Luciano ____ (1937-2005), Italian tenor	PAVAROTTI
Main character of Naughty Dog's Uncharted video games	Nathan Drake
Of the ear	OTIC
One of Pakistan's two official languages	URDU
Philosopher associated with the concept of the superman	NIETZSCHE
Polish pianist and composer who served as his country's prime minister	Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Popular resort of Sydney, New South Wales	Bondi Beach
Rhythmical stress in prosody, or a sudden attack caused by a medical condition	ICTUS
River after which one of Germany's states is named	SAAR
Russian name for a legislative assembly's lower house	DUMA
Sans-serif typeface created by Hermann Zapf and released in 1958	OPTIMA
Site of the battle which started the American Civil War	Fort Sumter
The battle of ____ was America's first major offensive in France during the First World War	Saint-Mihiel
The first word of a fairy tale, typically	ONCE
The form of skiing which is not Nordic	ALPINE
The lioness in Born Free	ELSA
The spore-bearing inner mass of puffball fungi	GLEBA
The ____ di Siena is a horse race first held in its "modern" form in 1633	palio
To call abundance in solo whist and take eight tricks	OVERBID
To walk in an ostentatious way (from a step in square dancing)	SASHAY
Toxic gas whose chemical formula is a refusal	nitric oxide
Weak glue-like mixture used to prepare walls before papering or plastering	SIZE
Will-o'-the-wisp, or a delusive hope	Ignis fatuus
____ Island is the northernmost part of Northern Ireland	RATHLIN
____ join a hardback book's covers and pages	ENDPAPERS
____ performed the theme tune to the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only	Sheena Easton