The Times Specialist April 11 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 261
Clues	Answers
"All the ____ people, where do they all come from?" (Eleanor Rigby lyrics)	LONELY
1970s Sunday night TV series about a shipping company	The Onedin Line
A keyboard instrument	JOANNA
Combs and saws have them	hampstead Heath
Indian food	ruby Murray
Section of the Metropolitan Police	sweeney todd
These have risers and treads	apples and pears
This is a clue	scooby doo
To depart in a hurry	scapa Flow
You may see this in a bun	barnet fair
A coffeehouse's server of coffee	BARISTA
A railway across Australia's ____ Plain has the world's longest stretch of straight track	nullarbor
A US name for some bedside furniture	night tables
A ____ king or queen may use 27A	PEARLY
An admiral's aide-de-camp	flag lieutenant
An American name for a travelling rug	lap robe
Anthony ____ was the UK's prime minister during the Suez crisis	EDEN
Biased or below the belt	UNFAIR
Code inserted into software to set off a malicious function in specific circumstances	logic bomb
Dudley Moore's Little Miss Britten skit parodied the voice of Peter ____	PEARS
Expression meaning "comes into view"	heaves in sight
Fish imported into the UK during the Second World War	SNOEK
George Town is the capital of the ____ Islands	CAYMAN
Hungarian prime minister Imre ____ was deposed by a Soviet military invasion in 1956	NAGY
Hydrocarbon gas used in welding	ACETYLENE
If someone ____ something, they devour it enthusiastically	tucks into
In grammar, to match in inflectional form	AGREE
In physics, a reflecting or refracting surface free from spherical aberration	aplanat
Left hastily and/or furtively	did a runner
Member of a biological clade including birds, reptiles and mammals, named after a membrane surrounding the foetus	AMNIOTE
Old English letter now replaced by the last two letters of its name	ETH
One of Islam's "pillars" (spelling with a doubled consonant)	HAJJ
People making false claims about their lives and achievements	FANTASISTS
Player of the upper part in a piano duet	PRIMO
Pseudo-archaic verb, meaning "know"	WIS
See 27A	ITALICISED
Small green grandmaster of the Jedi Order	YODA
Something causing (possibly overstated) disgust	ABOMINATION
State of inactivity or equilibrium	STASIS
The "helicopter seed" of trees in the Fraxinus genus	ash key
The answers to the eight 6A clues in this puzzle are examples of ____	cockney rhyming slang
The densest naturally occurring element	OSMIUM
The ____ tube connects the middle ear to the pharynx	EUSTACHIAN
To be taken over by an emotion or indication of it, such as laughter	subside into
Tourist attraction where you may see a representation of Guy Fawkes or 14A	London Dungeon
US state bordering Virginia and Tennessee	North Carolina
Variations from standard pitch in jazz	blue notes
Words from which later words are derived	ETYMA
____ played surgeon Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man	Anthony Hopkins
____'s "The man who …" cartoons featured overreactions to minor social gaffes	H M Bateman