The Times Specialist June 13 2021 Crossword Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 270
Clues	Answers
"Each has his own tree of ____, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal" (RL Stevenson)	ANCESTORS
"Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, / Stand ____ of Greek and Roman fame?" (Alexander Pope)	EMULOUS
A loggerhead, hawksbill or leatherback	sea turtle
A type of pastoral dance, named after an Italian island	SICILIANO
A White Friar	CARMELITE
Alloy often used to make tableware, up to around 1800	PEWTER
American state in which many Stephen King novels are set	MAINE
Anglicised name for a dagger used as part of traditional Highland costume	skean dhu
Anglicised spelling of a notable peak south of Dolgellau	Cader Idris
Appointed to office but not yet in office	DESIGNATE
Architect who designed the layout of Covent Garden's central square	Inigo Jones
As an Australian colloquialism, to ____ off means to depart	choof
Author of Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert
County town of Cumbria	CARLISLE
Displaying spontaneous playfulness	LUDIC
English soldier in Henry V, played by his namesake in a 1989 film adaptation	Michael Williams
Former Arsenal and Chelsea footballer who won seven FA Cup winners' medals	Ashley Cole
Former test cricketer and captain, knighted in 2019	Andrew Strauss
French city whose distinctive gothic cathedral was built with black lava stone	Clermont-Ferrand
Full name of the USS Enterprise's engineer	Montgomery Scott
Gordon Kaye's character in 'Allo 'Allo!	Rene Artois
Harry "Scud" ____ looks after the fictional Tom Brown when he arrives at Rugby school	EAST
In Egyptian mythology, mother of Horus	ISIS
In golf, the traditional name for a number two wood	BRASSIE
In physics, a particle, often an electron, ejected from matter by ionizing radiation	delta ray
In the translated title of a Verdi opera, Manrico is the ____	TROUBADOUR
India's most populous city	MUMBAI
Island of the West Indies whose capital is Castries	Saint Lucia
Magazine which published its 10,000th issue in 2020	The Spectator
Music genre which began with the likes of Abba and Boney M	eurodisco
North Yorkshire town with an art gallery called Mima	MIDDLESBROUGH
Order proclaimed by a sovereign or government	EDICT
Ornithorhynchus anatinus is commonly called the ____ platypus	duck-billed
Preference for local rather than central government	municipalism
Relating to leaves (of a particular type)	PAGINAL
Role played by Ruth Madoc in the sitcom Hi-de-Hi!	Gladys Pugh
Samuel Johnson said this should be sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, then thrown out as good for nothing	CUCUMBER
Small dog described by the Kennel Club as "Sturdy, abundantly but not excessively coated, with distinctly arrogant carriage and ‘chrysanthemum-like' face"	shih tzu
Songwriter who played Jess Robin in The Jazz Singer	Neil Diamond
The aristocrat John Bingham was commonly known as ____	Lord Lucan
The Man With the Golden Gun	SCARAMANGA
The trepang or "sea slug", a delicacy in oriental cuisine	beche-de-mer
The type of muscles forming a six-pack	ABDOMINAL
Welsh education and training inspectorate, whose name means "to reach out or stretch"	estyn
Word for rubbish which meant "offal" in the 15th century	GARBAGE
Works out using logic	DEDUCES
____ by Dickens was subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress	Oliver Twist
____ Peggoty was David Copperfield's childhood sweetheart	EMILY