The Times Specialist December 13 2020 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 244
Clues	Answers
“Handel’s ____” is the aria Ombra mai fu, from his opera Xerxes	LARGO
“Italy’s version of an open-face omelette”, in the words of Delia Smith	FRITTATA
“Oh ____, I long to hear you, Away you rolling river” (Song lyrics)	SHENANDOAH
Appear calm despite adverse circumstances	Put on a brave face
Asmara is the capital of this African country on the Red Sea	ERITREA
At Eton, a scholar who is not a colleger	OPPIDAN
Branded block of bouillon, sold since 1910	Oxo cube
Chinese dish of vegetables, and sometimes meat, served in a pancake	Spring roll
Former Scottish county of which Forfar was the county town	ANGUS
Goat Fell is the highest peak on this Firth of Clyde island	ARRAN
Gunman who shoots from undercover	SNIPER
Gypsum used in casts for moulds or bone fractures	Plaster of Paris
I Dreamed a Dream, the UK’s fastest selling debut album ever, was made by this Britain’s Got Talent contestant	Susan Boyle
In 1993, Cohse, Nalgo and Nupe merged to form ____	UNISON
John Adams, last survivor of a group of Bounty mutineers including Fletcher Christian, was found on ___ in 1808	pitcairn island
London’s “most vital junction”, a roundabout with the Wellington Arch at its centre	Hyde Park Corner
Lord of Masham, a conspirator in Shakespeare’s Henry V	SCROOP
Luxurious railway carriage	PULLMAN
Malcolm Hebden plays ____ Cole in Coronation Street	NORRIS
Mike Yarwood, Jon Culshaw or Alistair McGowan	IMPRESSIONIST
Netflix drama series about the Byrde family and their money-laundering enterprises, after their move from Chicago	OZARK
Of the nose	RHINAL
Ornamental pot or trough for plants	JARDINIERE
Perform a military ceremony marking the day’s end	Beat the retreat
Pineapple juice, rum and coconut milk	pina colada
Police informants	NARKS
Related to the topic	GERMANE
River with its source near Kemble in the Cotswolds	THAMES
Saudi-born leader of al-Qaeda, killed by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011	Bin Laden
Small South American monkey with distinctive ear tufts	MARMOSET
Something now available again	REISSUE
South American rodent with highly valued fur	CHINCHILLA
Strong fine cotton thread	LISLE
Tectonic boundary between the North American and Pacific plates in California	san andreas fault
Tenderloin fillet, covered with pâté or mustard, chopped mushrooms and Parma ham, wrapped in puff pastry	beef wellington
The largest of the Isles of Scilly	St Marys
The music of Mary J Blige and Smokey Robinson	Rhythm and blues
The royal house of Scottish monarchs from 1371 to 1714	STUART
The subsistence theory of ____ was part of classical economics	WAGES
The world’s first adhesive postage stamp, first issued on May 1, 1840	Penny Black
To split, or to adhere	CLEAVE
Twig of a plant used as a graft	SCION
US book club which has published its own editions of new books since 1927	literary guild
US comedian, whose signature song was Thanks For The Memory	bob hope
US golfer, nicknamed Supermex, who won six major titles in the 1960s and 1970s	Lee Trevino
Where your international mobile subscriber identity is stored	SIM card
William Jefferson ____ was the 42nd US president	CLINTON
____ won his first best actor Oscar for the 1992 film Scent of a Woman	Al Pacino