The Times Specialist February 28 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 255
Clues	Answers
"My parents kept me from children who were ____" (Stephen Spender)	ROUGH
"Tom Swift's electric rifle" as a weapon	TASER
"Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, / This lime-tree ____ my prison" (Coleridge)	BOWER
1959 single by Bobby Darin, based on a song from The Threepenny Opera	Mack the Knife
1996 Cher single which followed Walking in Memphis	one by one
A pseudonym, typically of an author	nom de plume
Abbreviation (normally using a symbol) for the US equivalent of a building society	S and L
According to a field guide, the distinction between ____s and mushrooms has no scientific basis at all	TOADSTOOL
Afro-Cuban dance, often with little motion around the floor	RUMBA
American national park employee, often wearing a campaign hat	RANGER
Author of the Just William novels	Richmal Crompton
Bruce Springsteen single mentioning the Viet Cong	Born in the USA
Castle which was the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother	GLAMIS
Dreams typically occur during this	REM sleep
Estimation of election results from views collected just before voting	Entrance poll
Facial feature which curves down like a bird's beak	hawk-nose
Fast Spanish marches which inspired ballroom dances	paso dobles
First name of the character played by Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous	EDINA
Former ice dancing partner of Christopher Dean	Jayne Torvill
Grangemouth is Scotland's main ____	container port
Howard Jacobson won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The ____	Finkler Question
In 1997 ____ became the first female president to succeed a female president (of a nation)	Mary McAleese
In cricket, an over with a dismissal and no runs	wicket maiden
Instrumental form, common in Baroque chamber music	trio sonata
Name of a fabric, from the Persian for "milk and sugar"	SEERSUCKER
New Zealand author ____ won the 2013 Man Booker prize for The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton
One hundredth of a baht in Thailand	SATANG
One who provides food at a social event	CATERER
Plant from a family including the brassica genus; person often leading a church procession	Crucifer
Popular Swiss ski resort between Davos and the Austrian border	KLOSTERS
Repeating	ITERANT
Serfdom, especially as applied to ancient Spartans	HELOTRY
Singer/songwriter whose second studio album is the best-selling album in the UK released in this century	ADELE
Singultus, a problem with many folk remedies	HICCUPS
Steve Davis won his first snooker world championship by defeating Doug ____	MOUNTJOY
The creator of Tristram Shandy	Laurence Sterne
The fool in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night	FESTE
The ____ agreement relaxed certain European border controls in 1985	schengen
The ____-Scott research station is the earth's only inhabited place with 6-month days and nights	AMUNDSEN
This may be crossed by the proposed Irish Sea bridge	North Channel
University with its oldest campus in Uxbridge	BRUNEL
Unpaid employment often provided to school leavers	work experience
Viking who was Normandy's first ruler	ROLLO
West Yorkshire village with sulphur springs found in 1744	boston spa
Young animal sounding as if it may come from a volcano	LARVA
____ designed the Crystal Palace	Joseph Paxton
____ played Barry Taylor in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	Timothy Spall
____ played gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One	Marlon Brando