The Times - Specialist - February 6 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 304
Clues	Answers
"By 2040, France and Germany are going to be ____, historically" (George Friedman)	has-beens
"The ____ of his coffers shall make coats / To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars" (Shakespeare's Richard II)	LINING
A final effort or performance	last hurrah
Advertising slogan used since the early 1980s, originally followed by "as they say in Germany"	Vorsprung Durch Technik
Albert and Michel ____ opened the Waterside Inn, the first restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, to win three Michelin stars	ROUX
American actor popularly known as Sly	Sylvester Stallone
An essential accompaniment	OBBLIGATO
An obsessive thought or desire	idee fixe
Ancient Sanskrit treatise on love as well as eroticism	kama sutra
Animals associated with heavy rain	cats and dogs
Another name for a sea-squirt	ascidian
Archaic name for a Muslim	MUSSULMAN
Botticelli painting featuring Venus, the nymph Chloris and the Roman goddess Flora who she transforms into	PRIMAVERA
Brand of mints named after the distinctive sound made by opening and closing its container	Tic Tac
Brazil's first capital city, now capital of the state of Bahia	SALVADOR
Chinese winner of snooker's 2021 UK Championship	Zhao Xintong
Colloquial word for an apotheosis	HUMDINGER
Director of films including Alien and Blade Runner	Ridley Scott
Equal in duration	isochronous
First name of the character played by Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous	EDINA
Forest deer, native to Japan, also naturalised in the UK	SIKA
Former name of John F Kennedy International Airport	IDLEWILD
In a 1989 film also starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff and Beau Bridges played the ____	Fabulous Baker Boys
In Australia, a minimum pay rate for particular workers	award wage
In golf, a stroke intended to put the ball onto the green	approach shot
In Irish mythology, the equivalent of Elysium	Tir-na-nog
In statistics, a ____ coefficient is the covariance of the random variables X and Y, divided by the square root of the product of their variances	CORRELATION
In Steptoe and Son, Harold and Albert are ____	rag-and-bone men
Israeli prime minister who succeeded Ehud Barak in 2001	Ariel Sharon
Latin for "to be"	ESSE
Lead singer of the band whose 2003 hit Seven Nation Army became a sports anthem	Jack White
Mother of the first Queen Elizabeth	anne boleyn
Narrator of The Arabian Nights	scheherezade
Only major character in MASH portrayed by the same actor in the film and TV versions	RADAR
Opponents of the Axis in the Second World War	ALLIES
Perforated plate used in replicating designs	STENCIL
Principal components of most alloys	base metals
Significant feature of the UK's only entire city named as a Unesco World Heritage Site	BATH
Singer who recorded two Trio albums with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris	Linda Ronstadt
Small Jewish settlements in eastern Europe	SHTETLS
Split pulses, especially lentils, used in Indian cookery	DHAL
Study of the world views of different cultures	ethnoscience
That which a diabetic must frequently monitor	blood sugar
The dance music equivalent of tempo	BPM
The father of Romulus and Remus	MARS
The most populous city of New Jersey	NEWARK
To soften flax or hemp using moisture	RET
____ Castle is a former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory	herstmonceux