The Times - Specialist - June 28 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 220
Clues	Answers
“The world’s largest dedicated online grocery retailer”, founded in 2000	OCADO
A “classic” baseplate for this toy shows its name 1024 times	LEGO
A cathedral cleric	CANON
A fawn colour, especially of dresses or coats	CAMEL
A regular ____ can be described as a triangular pyramid	TETRAHEDRON
A young pilchard; a variety of chalcedony	SARDINE
According to the Odyssey, ____ detained Odysseus for seven years	CALYPSO
An emotional display, often embarrassing for onlookers	SCENE
Any of Scotland’s 282 separate peaks over 3000 feet high	MUNRO
Audiences traditionally stand for this Handelian chorus	HALLELUJAH
Business costs not attributable to individual products	OVERHEADS
Cheshire location of the main Bentley car factory	CREWE
Chinese silk straight dress with stand-up collar and side slit	CHEONGSAM
Common name for various bivalve molluscs, especially Mytilus edulis	MUSSEL
Elvis Presley's third film and its title song, the first record to enter the UK charts at No 1	Jailhouse Rock
Essex island, which became a holiday destination in the first half of the 20th century	canvey
Extreme northern location; an uttermost point or degree	ultima Thule
Former TV quizmaster who created the educational website HistoryWorld	Bamber Gascoigne
Founded in Perth in 1976, the UK’s largest bus company	STAGECOACH
Game like charades, with acted rhymes of a clue word	Dumb crambo
Geometrical property of a shape, which may be rotational or reflective	SYMMETRY
Greek goddess of youth and spring	HEBE
House of the Rising Sun was the only UK No 1 hit by the ____	ANIMALS
Indian dish of yoghurt with spices and chopped vegetables, especially cucumber	RAITA
Joseph Conrad novel set in Costaguana, a fictional country	NOSTROMO
Large area where Spanish and Portuguese are spoken	Latin America
Light fluffy dish made by adding stiffly beaten egg whites to a roux and savoury or sweet flavouring ingredients	SOUFFLE
Lincolnshire market town, important in the medieval wool trade	STAMFORD
Loose fibre from old rope, used to caulk seams in wooden ships	OAKUM
Lord ____ was a lifelong advocate for penal reform	LONGFORD
Made a survey with a baseline and angular measurement	triangulated
Mediocre	so-so
Novelist influenced by Edouard Dujardin’s Les lauriers sont coupés, an early example of stream of consciousness	James Joyce
One who refuses to recognise the truth	OSTRICH
Organisation maintaining world order in a 1960s TV series	UNCLE
Part of Westminster Abbey where Chaucer was buried	Poets' Corner
Physicist who worked on electricity and magnetism	AMPERE
Provoke to action	INCITE
Region including Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji	MELANESIA
Rich tapestries were named after this northern French city	ARRAS
River which flows through Lake Geneva	RHONE
Silent film star, one of the founders of United Artists	Charlie Chaplin
Sir Mark ____ has been the Hallé Orchestra’s Music Director since 2000	ELDER
Terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, opened in 1837, and controversially rebuilt in the 1960s	Euston Station
The most difficult toe jump in figure-skating	LUTZ
Two of these offences are linked with lions and slow-moving tree creatures	Deadly Sins
Ukraine-born US violinist who said that he played “music that solves all human problems: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven”	Isaac Stern
Unaccompanied secular part-songs of the 16th century	MADRIGALS
Until 1974, the Parts of ___ was an administrative area in Lincolnshire, including Boston and Spalding	HOLLAND
Very large dog breed, with a rough shaggy coat	Irish wolfhound
____ played George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	Sir Alec Guinness