The Times - Specialist - July 18 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 275
Clues	Answers
"I didn't really mean those nasty words"	no offence
"O, Beulah, peel me a ____" (Mae West in I'm No Angel)	GRAPE
"Procrastination is the ____ of time" (Edward Young)	THIEF
"Retail ____" (business proverb)	is detail
"The ____" was a political cliché coined by CP Snow in a novel, and the title of a later one	Corridors of Power
13th-century ____ Budejovice was a famous beer's birthplace	ceske
1987 ITV series in which Robbie Coltrane fronted the Majestics, a Scottish pop group	Tutti Frutti
A challenging experience; a sea with no water	MARE
A description of Donald Trump's claims about the 2020 presidential election	the big lie
A fruit tree trained to grow flat, often against a wall	ESPALIER
A process that really happens in one's mind	a change of heart
A ____ line, which intersects all meridians at the same angle, is a straight line on a chart using the Mercator projection	RHUMB
According to the Oxford Reference website, "Britain's most famous amateur dramatic society"	footlights club
Adjective often seen in recipes, but not describing food	OVENPROOF
An ordinary man behaving like an aristocrat	Lord Muck
As a particular sound, English for nöff-nöff in Swedish or boo-boo in Japanese	OINK
Author of the Discworld novels	Terry Pratchett
Body part with meadows, according the song Stardust	HEART
Column feature which distinguishes architecture's three classical orders	CAPITAL
Edouard Manet's A ____ includes two bottles of Bass	Bar at the Folies Bergere
Equipment for this sport might be used to imitate the works of Jackson Pollock	PAINTBALL
Forename of at least two female ministers in 21st-century Conservative governments	THERESA
Former medium for transmitting stock price information	ticker tape
Fruit named after a body part	navel orange
Historically, an eastern European lancer	UHLAN
Ian ____ wrote the Inspector Rebus crime novels	RANKIN
In the Ehrenstein illusion, a square on ____ circles seems to have curved sides	CONCENTRIC
In three of golf's four majors, this describes a second playoff if it's needed	sudden death
Javanese staple protein, a fermented soya bean product	TEMPEH
Mathematician John ____'s best-known idea was, in his own words, "representing propositions by inclusive and exclusive circles"	VENN
More formally, the pips	time signal
Most of this island is on map 1 in the OS Landranger series	YELL
One ____ is about 0.0175 radians	DEGREE
Perversely named body of water in Kensington Gardens	Round Pond
Small but aggressive European fish, with a large dorsal fin	ruffe
Someone who ____ someone else fills their role	does duty for
St Petersburg's Church of the Saviour ____ was built where Alexander II was assassinated in 1881	On Spilled Blood
Statesman revered in both Taiwan and communist China	Sun Yat-sen
The F in FBI	FEDERAL
The instrument played by Leon Goossens and Heinz Holliger	OBOE
The oxide yellowcake is often made in ____ production	URANIUM
The ____ is a possible target for a cricket bowler	corridor of uncertainty
The ____ Mark 2 was seen in Inspector Morse and Withnail and I	JAGUAR
To make someone popular	ENDEAR
To ____ something is to make it possible	arrange for
TV quiz round in which a klaxon is often heard	General Ignorance
Vaclav ____ was the last president of Czechoslovakia	HAVEL
Very upset by something	in bits
Word that can follow coconut, fiddler and spider	CRAB
____ water is normally found in river estuaries	BRACKISH