The Times - Specialist - August 9 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 226
Clues	Answers
"Come in!" across the 30A	ENTREZ
3D puzzle with 6 colours and 26 visible blocks, a 1980s craze	Rubik's cube
Board game played in Europe since Roman times	Nine men's morris
Broad cravat tied under the chin; a make of gas water heater popular from the 1930s to the 1950s	ASCOT
By crossing it with an acorn, our Gracie's brother Joe created the biggest ____ in the world	ASPIDISTRA
Civil parish on the west side of the Lizard peninsula, with a cove including a fishing harbour	MULLION
Container holding about five gallons, originally used for storing fuel	JERRYCAN
Cube of three	Twenty seven
Deep-sea fishing port in Mount's Bay, Cornwall	NEWLYN
Enquire about someone, often in regard to their health	ask after
From 2014, the name of a UK-published reference book, now in its 152nd edition	Whitaker's
Gas mixture, mainly of methane, found in coal mines	FIREDAMP
Glass vessel containing liquid for injections	AMPOULE
Godfrey ____ was "arguably the best wicket keeper the game has ever seen" according to Wisden	EVANS
HMS Tyne and HMS Mersey monitored a Russian attack submarine as it passed through this body of water in July	English Channel
How "pretty maids" were arranged in Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary	in a row
Ignominious failure	FIASCO
In colloquial expressions, an alternative to "bad way"	Sorry state
Increasing in strength	intensifying
JRR Tolkien's "hole-builder"	HOBBIT
Largest island of Thailand	PHUKET
Leaves home for a holiday	Goes away
Members of the Vatican City's de facto army	Swiss Guards
Name given to Joseph Priestley's "dephlogisticated air" by Lavoisier, who first recognised it as an element, in 1777	OXYGEN
Native southwestern US inhabitants, c 200BC-AD1500	ANASAZI
New name for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, from 1929	YUGOSLAVIA
Part of the body of a saint venerated as holy	RELIC
Patrick ____ starred as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing	SWAYZE
Pinnacle of precipitated calcite on the floor of a cave	STALAGMITE
Rhineland city — its cathedral is the world's largest surviving Romanesque church	speyer
Russian Marxist killed in Mexico City by Ramon Mercader	TROTSKY
Someone keen to keep up with the latest clothing trends	FASHIONISTA
Song from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	When I'm Sixty-Four
Stars of the 1930s films Animal Crackers and Duck Soup	Marx Brothers
The art of growing ornamental dwarf trees in pots	BONSAI
The Dutch name for café ____ means "incorrect coffee"	au lait
The French term for a grocer	EPICIER
The longest surname of any tennis player with a career grand slam in singles	NAVRATILOVA
The UK's next ____ day is Sunday March 21, 2021	CENSUS
The usual English name for a team which has always played in the top division of Soviet or Ukrainian football	Dynamo Kiev
The ____ was the first of Chekhov's four major plays	SEAGULL
To charge a US public official with offences committed in office	IMPEACH
TV quiz hosted by Hughie Green from 1955 to 1968	Double Your Money
Type of moustache worn by Wyatt Earp, Paul von Hindenburg and Jimmy Edwards	HANDLEBAR
Victor's successor!	WHISKEY
Village with Spain's oldest bullring, often visited by tourists staying in Costa del Sol resorts	RONDA
Welsh reformer who established a cooperative industrial community at New Lanark	Robert Owen
____ played Michelle Fowler in EastEnders before becoming a TV producer and director	Susan Tully