The Times - Specialist - July 24 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 328
Clues	Answers
"I have a wife, I have sons: We have given so many ____ to the fates" (Lucan, in Pharsalia)	HOSTAGES
"People are dying. Entire ____s are collapsing." (Greta Thunberg, 2019)	ECOSYSTEM
"To the ___ / Of nature trusts the mind that builds for aye" (Wordsworth)	solid ground
16th-century author whose surname was adapted into a term describing bawdy writing	Francois Rabelais
A supplier of news or foreign exchange	BUREAU
A ____ tooth has a single cusp	CANINE
Adjective describing an airborne military force	PARATROOP
Attempt to punch (someone)	swing at
BBC cookery programme originally hosted by Loyd Grossman	MASTERCHEF
British acronym for a possible cause of a railway accident	SPAD
British bird of the Columba genus, with white neck and wing patches	wood pigeon
Cheshire town, home of the National Waterways Museum	Ellesmere Port
Common first word in names of French publishing firms	EDITIONS
Commonest name for an international law enforcement agency formed in 1998	EUROPOL
Condition often treated with Ritalin (abbreviation)	ADHD
Excessive in quantity	SUPERABUNDANT
Fictional band fronted by guitarist Nigel Tufnel	Spinal Tap
Fish which shares its name with a former Australian PM	RUDD
Footballer who became England's youngest-ever senior player in May 2006	Theo Walcott
Formal word for physical beauty	PULCHRITUDE
French actress who starred with Burt Reynolds in the 1975 film Hustle	Catherine Deneuve
Gun part which throws out empty shell cases after firing	EJECTOR
Historically, money or food for the poor	ALMS
Imperial measure __ one quarter of a bushel	PECK
In English, a letter such as W and Y, sometimes L and R	semivowel
Informally, to fly into a rage	go ballistic
Informally, very intoxicated	pie-eyed
Inhabitants of India's smallest state	GOANESE
Jamie ____ is the narrator of Traffic Cops on Channel 5	THEAKSTON
John le Carré novel which concluded his Karla Trilogy	Smiley's People
Lacking space, especially oppressively	closed-in
Land of Hope and Glory comes from this Elgar work	Coronation Ode
Leaves a country to settle in another	EMIGRATES
Lillian ____ was a US silent film star noted for playing waif-like characters with inner strength	GISH
Loose dresses worn by Hawaiian women, eg at weddings	MUUMUUS
Netherlands-born manager of the England women's football team	Sarina Wiegman
Not explored by adventurers, and an anagram of ADVENTURERS	untraversed
Not profitable	UNECONOMIC
One who may operate on a glaucoma	eye surgeon
Organisation such as the Planning Inspectorate, British Council or DVLA	QUANGO
Shoot-up Hill is part of this section of the A5 in London	Edgware Road
The number of sides of a hendecagon	ELEVEN
The quality of being deadly	LETHALITY
The St John's wort genus	HYPERICUM
The ____ is the newspaper central to the plot of Citizen Kane	INQUIRER
Title shared by singles by Sheena Easton in 1980 and Meat Loaf in 1984	Modern Girl
US vice president when Jimmy Carter was president	Walter Mondale
____ preceded Frank Skinner as presenter of the TV comedy series Room 101	Paul Merton