The Times Specialist November 1 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 238
Clues	Answers
(Done) in private or confidentially	sub rosa
1970s ITV sitcom with Sid James and Diana Coupland	Bless This House
1984 Francis Ford Coppola film centred on a famous New York City musical venue	The Cotton Club
A barber	tonsor
A collection of literary or philosophical excerpts	ANALECTS
A good luck gift such as a coin in the pocket of a new coat	HANDSEL
Actress whose breakthrough role was as Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film	Ursula Andress
America’s largest state	ALASKA
Annual Canadian comedy festival whose mascot, Victor, has red horns	Just For Laughs
Beetle whose larvae bore into the wood of conifers	SAWYER
Catchphrase from the 1984 film The Terminator	I'll be back
City in the Chicagoland metropolitan area, home of Northwestern University	EVANSTON
Comic strip in The Beano featuring Percival Proudfoot Plugsley and his nine schoolmates	Bash Street Kids
Film genre epitomised and, to some, created by A Fistful of Dollars in 1964	spaghetti Western
Fireproof barriers between stage and audience in theatres	safety curtains
Former name of Thailand	SIAM
France’s administrative divisions	departements
French former rally driver and current president of the FIA	Jean Todt
Game played with the fruit of Aesculus hippocastanum	CONKERS
Germany’s top football division	bundesliga
Gwendolen Harleth is the heroine of this George Eliot novel	daniel deronda
Having wings extended as if in flight (heraldry)	VOLANT
In baroque concerto music, the instruments accompanying the soloistic concertino group	RIPIENO
In Greek myth, daughter of Priam and beloved of Apollo	CASSANDRA
Inhabitants of this city in Quebec are known as Trifluvians	Trois-Rivieres
International law enforcement agency based in the Hague	EUROPOL
Kathmandu is the capital of ____	NEPAL
Line break created automatically by word processing software, or by using the Shift and Enter keys	soft return
Michael ____ replaced Eamonn Andrews as the host of This Is Your Life in 1987	Aspel
Molasses is sometimes called black ____	TREACLE
One of the USA’s four major sports leagues, founded in 1946	NBA
One version of the title renounced by Tony Benn to stand for a House of Commons seat	Lord Stansgate
Poker player’s stake placed before the deal	ANTE
Pretentiously refined	la-di-da
Random particle movement also called pedesis	Brownian motion
Relating to the feeding of animals	zootrophic
Russian car manufacturer owned by Renault	LADA
Scottish equivalent of a mayor	PROVOST
Soap opera spoof which was a regular feature of Victoria Wood — As Seen On TV	Acorn Antiques
Striking mixed-use building in the centre of Birmingham	The Cube
The food fish Gadus morhua	COD
The inversion of word order in a sentence	anastrophe
The longest-serving first lady of the United States	Eleanor Roosevelt
The state of being globe-shaped	sphericalness
The Wedding, a ballet by Stravinksy	Les Noces
To ____ windmills is to attack imaginary enemies	tilt at
UK policing agency merged into Soca in 2006	NCIS
____ defeated Darlene Hard and Angela Mortimer to win her two Wimbledon singles titles	Althea Gibson