The Times - Specialist - January 30 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 303
Clues	Answers
"The moment that the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid ____ to common feeling, common prudence, and to common sense" (Sydney Smith)	ADIEU
"____ paralysis" is a lack of decisions due to overthinking	ANALYSIS
"____ planting" is layered potting of spring bulbs	LASAGNE
1977 Woody Allen rom-com starring Diane Keaton which won four Oscars	annie hall
A measurement of fuel efficiency	Miles per gallon
A technical alternative to "flat"	PLANAR
A ____ lane may be used by heavy lorries on one side of a dual carriageway	CRAWLER
Actor who played Leonard Swindley in Coronation Street in the 1960s	Arthur Lowe
Beauty salon treatment including exfoliation, masks and massage	FACIAL
Comes across accidentally	chances on
Condition which could be described as soreness around the stirrup	OTITIS
Currency units; common wallaroos	EUROS
Elton John often wore oversized ____ in his Captain Fantastic persona	SUNGLASSES
Eruca sativa, grown as a salad vegetable in Italy since Roman times	ROCKET
Exeter replaced ____ as Devon's cathedral city in 1050	CREDITON
Falls asleep	nods off
GCE examination introduced in 1951 to replace the School Certificate	O-level
In German, this liquid container is a Wärmflasche	hot-water bottle
In their brief journey, a ____ may use a rogallo wing	PARACHUTIST
Inventor of dynamite as a safe form of nitroglycerin, in 1866	Alfred Nobel
Location of Kenneth Kaunda International Airport	LUSAKA
Newmarket's 2000 Guineas is the first classic in the ____	Flat season
One of 20D who appeared in the 2013 series of "Strictly"	Dave Myers
One of 20D who previously worked in film production	Si King
Paraffin oil advertised on TV from the 1950s to the 1970s by the slogan "Boom, boom, boom, boom ____"	Esso Blue
Play based on The Wind in the Willows	Toad of Toad Hall
Powerful wealthy folk	PLUTOCRATS
Provisional drivers' red-letter signs	L-plates
Rods once used for multiplication and division, invented by a Scottish mathematician	Napiers bones
Sacred texts of Zoroastrianism	AVESTA
Singer of the 1967 hit What a Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong
Someone who may give you a black eye in a café	BARISTA
Starter invented in 1940 by Ignacio Anaya in Coahuila, Mexico	NACHOS
Study or 29A of the grammatical arrangement of words	SYNTAX
The Shields Ferry carries ____ across the River Tyne	Foot passengers
The summit of this Lakeland peak was donated to the National Trust in memory of local men who died in the First World War	Scafell Pike
Track onto which goods trains may be shunted	SIDING
TV cooks who travel on four wheels	The Hairy Bikers
Uruguayan port noted for meat-packing, or the related food brand now owned by Baxters in the UK	Fray Bentos
US actor who starred in Rear Window	James Stewart
US actress who rose to fame in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in in the late 1960s	Goldie Hawn
Where to find the sclera, retina and vitreous humour	EYEBALL
Winter sport combining cross-country skiing and shooting	BIATHLON
____ described the RKO studios as "the biggest electric train [set] a boy ever had"	orson welles
____ twins develop from two separate fertilised ova	FRATERNAL
____-Watt is a Scottish university focusing on science and engineering	Heriot