The Times - Specialist - February 27 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 307
Clues	Answers
"And don't ____ on the pate" (Mr Creosote in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)	SKIMP
"It is as certain as it is marvellous that truth and ____ come from one source" (Goethe)	ERROR
"This other ____, demi-paradise" (Shakespeare, Richard II)	EDEN
1805 battle, often considered Napoleon's greatest victory	AUSTERLITZ
20 quires of paper	REAM
A small fly resembling a mosquito	GNAT
A very short skirt	micro-mini
Actress, dancer and singer, featured in We're in the Money in Gold Diggers of 1933	Ginger Rogers
An old name for a common seal	sea calf
An old term for the end of a rugby match	no side
Another name for a pool shark	HUSTLER
BeeGees song which has been used in CPR training	Stayin' Alive
Brazil's ____ National Park is in the Tapajos River watershed	AMAZONIA
British sitcom which featured flatmates Gary Strang and Tony Smart	Men Behaving Badly
By area, the smallest US state	Rhode Island
Character played by Eric Mabius in the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty	Daniel Meade
Charles "Lucky" ____ replaced the "capo dei capi" American mafia leader with a governing body, "the Commission"	LUCIANO
City at the eastern end of the Gower peninsula	SWANSEA
Collides with a vehicle in front	rear-ends
Comic strip character ____ Race plays for Melchester Rovers	ROY
Condition also called work-related upper limb disorder	rsi
Considerable	no little
Diet, exercise or treatment plan	REGIMEN
Elgar's song cycle Sea Pictures was composed for this English contralto with a powerful voice	Clara Butt
Fleetwood Mac singer who wrote the Rumours song Dreams	Stevie Nicks
Helium nucleus emitted by unstable isotopes	alpha particle
Hermann Buhl reached the summit of ____ in 1953, in the only solo first ascent of an 8000-metre peak	Nanga Parbat
In some versions of draughts, to remove an opponent's piece as a penalty for failing to capture with it	HUFF
Insurance professional, sometimes called "a cross between a bookie and an undertaker"	ACTUARY
Interstellar clouds	NEBULAE
Legal term for a sum paid by a new tenant for remaining fixtures	INGOING
On a fully-rigged tall ship, the ____ staysail is positioned behind three jibs	foretopmast
Original name of the quiz show now hosted by Paddy McGuinness	A Question of Sport
Parisian cabaret venue on Boulevard de Clichy	Moulin Rouge
Poet described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"	lord byron
Popular name of the church at the highest point of Paris	Sacre-Coeur
River flowing from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean	St Lawrence
Scientific study of the body's defence mechanisms	IMMUNOLOGY
Tanzania's largest city	Dar es Salaam
The one-word anagram of MOBILISES	OMISSIBLE
The policing agency which became Soca in 2006	NCIS
The tallith worn by male orthodox Jews is a type of ____	prayer shawl
This poem's rhyme scheme may be AAAA, ABAB or ABBA	QUATRAIN
To amicably accept opposing opinions	agree to differ
To travel aerially, towed like a waterskier	PARASAIL
Type of jug once often combined with a bowl in bedrooms	EWER
Vesta and Pallas are among the solar system's largest ____s	ASTEROID
Wild cat also called ounce	snow leopard
____ is a peninsula between the Black Sea and Sea of Azov	CRIMEA
____ was, according to Tolstoy, his first true novel	Anna Karenina