The Times - Specialist - September 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 233 September 27 2020 Crossword Answers

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 233
Clues	Answers
"If […] I am an optimist, my ____ to the creed of optimism is worth hearing" (Helen Keller)	TESTIMONY
"The Red One", a famous Moorish palace in Granada	ALHAMBRA
1959 mystery novel by Muriel Spark	memento mori
1992 No 1 hit for Shakespears Sister	STAY
A fold pressed or sewn in fabric	PLEAT
A form of paramnesia	deja vu
A protein acting as a catalyst in biochemical reactions	ENZYME
According to polls, nearly half of Serbia's football fans support ____ Belgrade	red star
Actor who played Sebastian alongside Florence Pugh in the 2016 film Lady Macbeth	Cosmo Jarvis
Also known as the Amidah, central prayer of the Jewish liturgy	Shemoneh Esreh
An official language of Pakistan	URDU
Author of The Devil's Dictionary	Ambrose Bierce
Cerumen	EARWAX
February 6 in New Zealand	Waitangi Day
Fermented soya bean paste, the base for a Japanese soup	MISO
First philosopher mentioned in Monty Python's "Bruces' Song"	Immanuel Kant
Former game show with nine contestants usually in apparent cuboid compartments	Celebrity Squares
French term for a duty or educational exercise	DEVOIR
Grasshopper or cricket, for example	ORTHOPTERAN
Group which had a 1970 hit with Knock Three Times	DAWN
Illuminated manuscript version of the four Gospels, housed at Trinity College Library in Dublin	Book of Kells
In anatomy, the opposite of distal	PROXIMAL
In Spanish-speaking countries, a motorway	AUTOPISTA
In the House of Commons, an MP who does not hold office	BACKBENCHER
Informally, the Beethoven symphony performed in this year's first live Prom on August 28	EROICA
James McConville is the US Army's current ____	Chief of Staff
Jim Parsons plays ____ Cooper in The Big Bang Theory	SHELDON
Lakeland fell which became Kanchenjunga in a Swallows and Amazons novel by Arthur Ransome	Old Man of Coniston
Largest city located on the River Weser in Germany	BREMEN
Organisation offering training and certification in diving	padi
Part of an insect's body which bears the wings and legs	THORAX
Pasta is usually made from this variety of wheat	DURUM
Piece of writing which excludes one or more letters of the alphabet	LIPOGRAM
Race devised for the first modern Olympics in 1896	MARATHON
Racecourses of ancient Rome and Greece	HIPPODROMES
Satirist described by Stephen Fry as "The funniest man who ever drew breath"	Peter Cook
Something which provides guidance (originally a name for the Pole Star)	CYNOSURE
The "Doc" played by Christopher Lloyd in the Back to the Future films	Emmett Brown
The "Lion of Punjab", a Sikh empire leader of the early 19th century	Ranjit Singh
The cause of glandular fever	Epstein-Barr virus
The study of word origins	ETYMOLOGY
Three-verse poem by Byron, inspired by Anne Beatrix Wilmot, his cousin's wife	She Walks in Beauty
To encounter, usually unexpectedly	run into
To obtain something (typically money) by force or threat	EXTORT
Torgau, where US and Soviet forces met on April 25, 1945, stands on this river	ELBE
With Brutus, Sicinius ____ plots the downfall of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's play	velutus
Wood which was the reason for the creation of British Honduras as a colony	MAHOGANY