The Times - Specialist - January 2 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 299
Clues	Answers
1986 film about England's "nine days' queen"	Lady Jane
A Christian who does not believe in the Holy Trinity	UNITARIAN
A solver of a ____ crossword must work out most of the grid	SKELETON
A static alternative to a mouse	trackpad
African republic which existed from May 1967 to January 1970	BIAFRA
Argentina's de facto health and labour minister in the early 1950s	eva Peron
Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon
Bad weather in a 42D played at some 43A concerts	Thunder and Lightning
Body of water, usually about two percent of Utah	Great Salt Lake
City near the Brazilian mainland's easternmost point	RECIFE
City with the most surviving medieval churches north of the Alps	NORWICH
City with the southernmost bridge on the River Rhône	ARLES
Discussion system where terms like "FAQ" and "sockpuppet" were first used	USENET
Drink consumed at this time of the year	EGGNOG
Essential literature for an educational course	required reading
First leader of the Provisional Government of the French Republic	charles de gaulle
Form of warfare, partly named after a translation of a word in 5D	BLITZKRIEG
Hound formerly used to hunt wolves in Russia	BORZOI
In fiction, Lady Penelope and Lady Mary Wimsey were educated here	ROEDEAN
In one of two forms, a request for rapid progress	full speed ahead
Louis ____ made the first aeroplane cross-channel flight, in 1909	BLERIOT
Morocco's capital city	RABAT
Name, of French origin, for a wedge-shaped stone in an arch	VOUSSOIR
Nevada city which made divorce into an industry	RENO
Number of cards in a complete tarot pack	seventy-eight
Old pejorative informal name for London	Great Wen
One name for a No 10 player in rugby union	stand-off
Period needed to return to normality after an event	recovery time
Probable headgear for a Victorian maid	mob cap
Purported writer of 18th-century fake Gaelic poetry	OSSIAN
René ____ made the SS Normandie's architectural glassware	LALIQUE
Rhett Butler is one of ____'s best-known film roles	Clark Gable
River reaching the Szczecin lagoon just before the Baltic	ODER
Seabird which steals food from other seabirds in flight	SKUA
Shape-shifting trickster god of Norse mythology	LOKI
Short name for a Jamaican style similar to hip hop	RAGGA
Some music in a 43A concert is for this dance	WALTZ
Some music in a 43A concert is for this dance	POLKA
Symphony, sonnet and sculpture are ____s	art form
The Austro-Hungarian empire's main seaport	TRIESTE
The first hotel with this name opened in Paris in 1898	RITZ
The instrument from which the clarinet was developed	CHALUMEAU
The river on which Pisa stands	ARNO
The second encore at the 43A concert is a 10D, On the ____	Beautiful Blue Danube
The traditional third encore at the 43A concert	radetzky march
The upper edge of a ship's side	GUNWALE
To finish a hard general knowledge crossword, you may need to ____	go online
TV drama whose original 1970s series reputedly caused evensong rescheduling	POLDARK
Wat ____ was the leader of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381	TYLER
What appears between "www." and "/" in a URL	domain name
Word often seen as an upper-class version of "serviette"	NAPKIN
Yesterday's ____ concert was on TV in more than 90 countries	Vienna New Year's