The Times - Specialist - August 15 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

Clues	Answers
"Adultery, Emma was discovering, could be as banal as marriage" comes from this 1857 novel	Madame Bovary
"My hovercraft is full of ____" (Monty Python Hungarian Phrasebook sketch)	EELS
"The face that launched a thousand ships" comes from this Christopher Marlowe play	Doctor Faustus
1055 joules (abbreviation)	BTU
1969 film, Richard Attenborough's directorial debut	Oh What a Lovely War
1995 thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a fire marshal trying to foil terrorists at an ice hockey final	sudden death
354.3671 days	lunar year
A result distant from others in a statistical sample	OUTLIER
A terminal air sac of the lungs	Alveolus
Actor who played Peter Krieg, John McClane's adversary in Die Hard with a Vengeance	Jeremy Irons
An ____ typeface has prominent serifs and is highly legible	IONIC
Another name for a spoonerism, supposedly from the name of a Polish count	marrowsky
Apple variety used by the Beatles for their Apple Records logo	Granny Smith
Author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	victor hugo
British cheese with green marbling	sage derby
Canadian actor who starred as Jack Bauer in the drama series 24	Kiefer Sutherland
Catarrhal inflammation of nasal mucous membrane	CORYZA
City of southwest Germany, with the world's tallest church	ULM
Country of the Arabian peninsula formed in 1990	YEMEN
Director of the influential noir film M	Fritz Lang
Domed glass laboratory apparatus often used to form and contain a vacuum	bell jar
Easter Island's indigenous name	Rapa Nui
Harry Potter character whose middle name is Bilius	Ron Weasley
In Dad's Army, how Captain Mainwaring often addressed Private Pike	You stupid boy
In the 1940s, the ____ produced the first nuclear weapons	manhattan project
Morris car which succeeded the Marina	ITAL
New Zealand sea mollusc or its shell used in jewellery	PAUA
Newspaper for which Ian Fleming worked in the 1950s	Sunday Times
Old name for an inhabitant of the Mediterranean's second largest island	SARD
Outer garment flaring out from the shoulders	swagger coat
Poet and playwright Federico Garcia ____ was killed by Nationalist forces in the Spanish civil war	LORCA
Points where medians of triangles intersect	centroids
Security device patented in its best-known form in 1865	yale lock
Small organ of the Renaissance era, often with the bellows on top	REGAL
Something considered futile may be given up as ____	a bad job
Technically, a flowing out of gas, liquid etc	EFFLUX
The first forename to be shared by more than one UK gold medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics	TOM
The Happy Days character played by Henry Winkler	Arthur Fonzarelli
The organisation identified by the Kitemark	BSI
The outstanding competitor in a school sports event	victor ludorum
The type of rig used on a traditional Thames barge	SPRITSAIL
The ____, a 1981 film based on a real outlaw road race	Cannonball Run
Thierry Henry and ____ were the first two players inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame, in April 2021	Alan Shearer
This mobile phone facility can create accidental comedy	AUTOCORRECT
To adjust a sail so that it is no longer filled by wind	depower
To release someone from slavery or servitude	MANUMIT
Tripoli is the capital of this country	LIBYA
Welsh fashion designer noted for floral print patterns	Laura Ashley
William Faulkner novel set mainly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha county of Mississippi	Light in August
____ lace was woven with gold or silver threads	ORRIS