The Times Specialist November 22 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 241
Clues	Answers
"A question I have often asked is, 'What would an ____ political cartoon look like?’" (Salman Rushdie)	INOFFENSIVE
"Extinct" order of fish, until an Indian Ocean find in 1938	COELACANTH
"They blame their tools: why did the carpenter make the bed so badly, if he ____?" (Galen)	was any good
"____ me, my sweet ____able you" (Ira Gershwin)	EMBRACE
01-Jan	EVENS
A design, especially one used as part of a pattern	MOTIF
A former French title for a clergyman	ABBE
A photon books in at a hotel. Receptionist: Do you have any luggage? Photon: No, I’m ____	travelling light
According to EB White, someone who "knows more about writing than writers do, but who has escaped the terrible desire to write"	EDITOR
According to its founder, "a school of citizenship through woodcraft"	SCOUTING
An elevated but static trot in dressage	piaffe
An ideal now abandoned at the top level of most sports	Amateurism
An old-fashioned sweet pudding; insincere compliments	FLUMMERY
Animal with both beaded and bearded varieties	LIZARD
As ____, Nicholas Breakspear was the only English pope	Adrian IV
Austrian physicist ____ described one of the best-known effects in science	Christian Doppler
Bacterium which is spherical or nearly so	Coccus
Ban (someone) from participation in church sacraments	EXCOMMUNICATE
BBC Two documentary series, aired 1965-82, about a wide range of people	Man Alive
Cleaning or purifying process using vapour	FUMIGATION
Clothing etc, traditionally collected by a bride for marriage	TROUSSEAU
Daisy Ashford wrote The ____ when she was 5D, and it was mostly unchanged when published 28 years later	Young Visiters
Distilling apparatus formerly used by alchemists	ALEMBIC
French post-impressionist, the "father of modern art"	Paul Cezanne
Hertfordshire town with a Natural History Museum originally created by Lionel Walter (2nd Baron) Rothschild	TRING
Holiday accommodation which includes self-catering flats	apartotel
In Michelin guides, a two-star restaurant is worth a ____	DETOUR
In Microsoft Word 2019, Gigi, Broadway or Playbill	TYPEFACE
Informally, a former furniture retailer in London’s Tottenham Court Road	MAPLES
Modern name of pharaonic Egypt’s southern frontier city	ASWAN
Of a person, having a large solid body	HEAVYSET
Original rank of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek	LIEUTENANT
Part of the full name for Shoreham, but not nearby Hove or Worthing	by-sea
River feature that could be called an ex-meander	oxbow lake
Royal Troon’s famous very short hole	postage stamp
See 24D	NINE
Shirley ____, who admitted to occasional cigarette-smoking, won Olympic 100m hurdles silver in 1984	STRONG
Singapore prison; a Second World War PoW camp nearby	changi
Source of power introduced by America’s Eveready company in 1907	AA batteries
Spreaders of opinion via social media	TWITTERATI
The new role of Dolly Alderton in our Style supplement	agony aunt
The Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary says ____ "may work by allowing the body to release its own natural painkillers"	ACUPUNCTURE
The short form of a fancy word for "smelly"	odiferous
The storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights	SCHEHERAZADE
Things which are mysterious, or meant for a tiny audience	ESOTERICA
This name for an ancient and important area was apparently not used before the 20th century	Fertile Crescent
To behave badly	act up
Type of salmon found in the northern Pacific	SOCKEYE
Until 1986, the name of a rock hall of fame in London’s Exhibition Road	geological Museum
____ share male ancestry	AGNATES