The Times - Specialist - June 21 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 219
Clues	Answers
"Do not ____ thy reasons from this clause" (Twelfth Night)	EXTORT
"Every marriage tends to consist of an ____ and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner" (John Updike)	ARISTOCRAT
"Musicians are seldom ____; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed" (Honoré de Balzac)	UNEMOTIONAL
1936 Aldous Huxley novel, its title taken from Milton's Samson Agonistes	eyeless in gaza
A cricket or football ground in Australia	OVAL
A genetic variant, of a bacterium for example	STRAIN
A Hawaiian garland	LEI
A rectangular building stone or masonry using it	ASHLAR
A seasonal wind; Edina's surname in Absolutely Fabulous	MONSOON
Abbreviation often seen on European lorries	TIR
Actress who starred with Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Claire Bloom
An artist's rough sketch	ESQUISSE
Artist made famous by his Apocalypse with Pictures, a series of woodcuts published in 1498	DURER
Australian city, a gateway to the Great Barrier Reef	CAIRNS
BBC2 business and consumer show, broadcast 1994-2010	Working Lunch
Brief spell of precipitation	SHOWER
Chalk promontory close to Bridlington	Flamborough Head
Colloquially, a novel method of increasing personal efficiency	life hack
Combined with or converted to salt	salified
Comedian who co-wrote and starred in Dr Terrible's House of Horrible	Steve Coogan
Emmerdale character, played by Michelle Hardwick, a friend of Rhona Goskirk	Vanessa Woodfield
Eponymous canine character of a 1906 novel by Jack London	White Fang
European member of the herring family which leaves the sea to spawn in rivers	allis shad
Full name of the author who sometimes wrote as Saki	Hector Hugh Munro
Goose which is the state bird of Hawaii	NENE
In 1910, aviation pioneer ____ won a prize of 10,000 dollars offered by Joseph Pulitzer for the first 137-mile flight, with two stops, from Albany to Manhattan	Glenn Curtiss
In boxing, a punch delivered with a wide swing of the arm	ROUNDHOUSE
In the 1000th edition of Top of the Pops, broadcast in 1983, the No 1 single was performed by ____	Spandau Ballet
John ____ was director-general of the BBC, 1992-2000	BIRT
Kim Hunter won the 1951 best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as ____ in A Streetcar Named Desire	Stella Kowalski
Lunch, as a French noun or verb	DEJEUNER
Most delicious or attractive	YUMMIEST
Name for UFO sightings, popularised in a 1977 film	close encounters
Nickname given to the French, US and UK flags (among others)	red white and blue
Pablo ____ made the first recording of the Bach cello suites	CASALS
Paul ____ was the founder of Germany's federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines	EHRLICH
Prime minister of Denmark since June 2019	Mette Frederiksen
Saint ____ was the "Apostle to the Picts"	COLUMBA
Shown in or out	USHERED
Stage name of 1960s pop icon Terence Nelhams-Wright	adam faith
Students ridiculed for their studiousness	SWOTS
The capital of Jersey	Saint Helier
The capital of Somalia	MOGADISHU
The first performance on the 1000th edition of Top of the Pops was ____ by Thompson Twins	We Are Detective
The volume control of an amplifier	GAIN
The ____, Chris Rea album of 1998	Blue Cafe
Those who take goods as booty	plunderers
Wiltshire town whose abbey is the burial place of the first king of the whole of England	malmesbury