The Times - Specialist - October 31 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 290
Clues	Answers
"Fascism is the cult of ____ murder" (Marcus Garvey)	ORGANISED
"For zeal's a dreadful ____, / That teaches saints to tear and cant" (Samuel Butler, Hudibras)	TERMAGANT
"From Dan to ____" is a biblical phrase indicating the area settled by the tribes of Israel	BEERSHEBA
"Why, 'tis good to be sad and say ____" (As You Like It)	NOTHING
A case or stand in which spirit decanters are locked but visible	TANTALUS
A US university was named after this president of an East India Company settlement, which became Madras	Elihu Yale
Area of northern and eastern England under Viking rule	DANELAW
Australian TV's first soap opera, launched in 1958	Autumn Affair
BBC2 series which started at Dover's cliffs in 2005	COAST
Charlemagne's shrine is in this German city's cathedral	AACHEN
Conglomerate of rounded pebbles in a contrasting matrix	pudding stone
Director of the Oscar-winning 1969 film Women in Love	Ken Russell
Drug derived from vitamin A, used to treat skin conditions	retinoid
Easternmost and largest of the "sestieri" of Venice	castello
Finnish band which won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest	LORDI
Former All Blacks player who was nicknamed Pinetree	Colin Meads
German tennis player who was ranked as world No 1 for a record 377 weeks	Steffi Graf
In A Fish Called Wanda, Kevin Kline played ____ West	OTTO
In a variant from the commonest transliteration, the composer of the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition	Modest Moussorgsky
In June 2019, Boris Johnson said he would take the UK out of the EU by Halloween, "come what may, ____"	do or die
Informally, an early bicycle without tyres or springs	BONESHAKER
Inuit territory of northern Canada, created in 1999	NUNAVUT
Jacobin leader, guillotined for his role in the Reign of Terror	ROBESPIERRE
John Greenleaf ____ was noted for anti-slavery campaigning and nostalgic poems about New England	WHITTIER
Musical instrument developed from the shawm in the 17th century	OBOE
Name of the lead character, played by Jan-Michael Vincent, in the TV show Airwolf	Stringfellow Hawke
Old word meaning "silvery" or made of silver	ARGENTINE
One hundredth of the basic monetary unit in various nations of southeast Asia	SEN
Propaganda/surveillance device in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four	TELESCREEN
Rodent making a spherical breeding nest above ground	Harvest mouse
Shetland peninsula with volcanic features like the inlet Calder's Geo	Esha Ness
Supermarket chain promoted by Muzz Khan as "Sunny"	asda
Surname of the playwright whose works include The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version	RATTIGAN
The capital of Kenya	NAIROBI
The first boxer to hold world titles in three different decades (1980s, 1990s and 2000s)	Evander Holyfield
The theme of Beethoven's "____ Variations" was later used in a symphony finale	EROICA
The usual American alternative to "Ltd"	INC
The ____ was a 1958 sci-fi horror film in which a large amoeba-like entity terrorised rural Pennsylvania	BLOB
To alight at the end of a railway journey	DETRAIN
To amicably accept a clash of opinions	agree to differ
Winning car maker in the first F1 World Championship	alfa romeo
____ became a comic strip rival to Buck Rogers in 1934	Flash Gordon
____ created the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn	Ngaio Marsh
____ had a 1963 hit with I Only Want To Be With You	Dusty Springfield
____ played Alice in the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Dyan Cannon
____ starred as Maggie Peyton in the 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded	Lindsay Lohan
____! was a 2003 biographical film written, directed, produced by and starring Mario Van Peebles	baadasssss
____'s first novel was The World is Full of Married Men	Jackie Collins