The Times - Specialist - July 17 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 327
Clues	Answers
"Continental people have sex life; the English have ____ bottles" (George Mikes in How to be an Alien)	Hot-water
"Is […] bad treatment ever given to a person? / No, it is always ____ out" (Flann O'Brien's Myles na gCopaleen Catechism of Cliché)	METED
A British state school's year includes five ____s	inset day
A fixed number of verse lines forming a unit of a poem	STANZA
A ____ ban prohibits a football manager from being present on or near to the field of play during a match	TOUCHLINE
Also called manioc, the source of tapioca	CASSAVA
Argued; propelled a boat	ROWED
Author of the novels Good Companions and Angel Pavement	J B Priestley
British professional boxing trophy which is retained by a winner of three titles in the same weight division	lonsdale belt
Capital city of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia	DUSSELDORF
Choreographer and director of West End musicals, and a Strictly judge 2004-2008	Arlene Phillips
City on the Atlantic coast of Florida, known as the "Venice of America" because of its many canals	Fort Lauderdale
Cook whose "effect" has dramatically increased sales of some foods and utensils	Delia Smith
Currency used in Liberia, Namibia or Taiwan, for instance	DOLLARS
Dancer who has appeared in every Strictly series and is now a judge	Anton du Beke
English ballerina who became a Strictly judge in 2012	Darcey Bussell
Excessive refinement	NICETY
Farm buildings with curved roofs and no walls	Dutch barns
Head judge in Strictly Come Dancing, 2004-2016	Len Goodman
In computing, a structured collection of information that can be managed as an entity	data set
In Welsh-based spelling, a North Wales town whose walls and castle are part of a Unesco world heritage site	CAERNARFON
Interstate 10, the US's southernmost cross-country highway, links three state capitals __ Phoenix, Baton Rouge and ____	TALLAHASSEE
Irish singer-songwriter whose Orinoco Flow was a No 1 hit in 1988	ENYA
Jazz standard from the Gershwin brothers musical Girl Crazy	I Got Rhythm
Joe Root's successor as England Test cricket captain	Ben Stokes
Kiln for drying hops, especially in Kent	Oast house
Like the Ffestiniog or Talyllyn railways	Narrow-gauge
Living accommodation with one main room	studio flat
Located in Port Charlotte, one of Islay's nine distilleries	bruichladdich
Marie ____'s work in wax included a self-portrait still shown at the London museum she founded	TUSSAUD
Midlands town where Jensen cars were made, 1935-76	West Bromwich
Non-technical name for urticaria	nettle rash
Petty gangster or ruffian	HOODLUM
Piece of armour covering the chest	BREASTPLATE
Prolific novelist who wrote The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope
Pruned tidily; adorned	TRIMMED
Robin Day was the first host of this TV topical debate forum	question time
Scotland's southernmost Munro, overlooking its largest loch by surface area	Ben Lomond
The German equivalent of the French "n'est-ce pas?"	Nicht wahr
The holly genus; another name for holm-oak	ILEX
The plant "inextricably entwined" and in love with the honeysuckle in a Flanders and Swann song	BINDWEED
The ____ Aqueduct and its section of the Llangollen Canal are a Unesco world heritage site	PONTCYSYLLTE
Unfair use of power to benefit or employ family or friends	NEPOTISM
US actor who played Oliver Wendell Douglas in the US TV sitcom Green Acres and Carlton Travis in Falcon Crest	Eddie Albert
US version of a military instruction to turn in the opposite direction	about face