The Times - Specialist August 14 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 331
Clues	Answers
"It yearns me ____ men my garments wear; / Such outward things dwell not in my desires" (Henry V)	not if
1937 AJ Cronin novel about a doctor's work in a mining town, which is thought to have influenced the NHS's creation	The Citadel
1957 sci-fi novel, filmed as Village of the Damned	The Midwich Cuckoos
A kind of caravan or IP address	STATIC
A way of travelling, but not at this time of year	SLEDGING
A woman, often without formal obstetric training, who proves help during labour	DOULA
AA Milne's Hundred Acre Wood was based on a forest in this part of SE England	WEALD
After his 1974 Commonwealth Games 400m hurdles win, Alan ____'s victory celebration went badly wrong	PASCOE
Among Holst's planets, ____ ends with a door-assisted diminuendo	NEPTUNE
Archaeological term for buried treasure	HOARD
Before 2014, a Humber estuary sandspit's southern tip	Spurn Head
Chess piece initially put two squares away from a king	queen's bishop
Containing iron in its trivalent state	FERRIC
Drowned daughter of a miner in a western US folk ballad	CLEMENTINE
Earth's largest terrestrial arthropod, found on some Indian and Pacific Ocean islands	coconut crab
Equipment used for rapid delivery of medication or nutrients, usually to a patient in bed	I V drip
Formally, the subject of the 2019 film Radioactive	Madame Curie
Former soldier whose first appearance as a fictional character was in a 1972 novel called First Blood	RAMBO
Former TV situation comedy set in Sacred Heart Hospital	SCRUBS
French chemist Nicolas ____ created the first industrial process for making soda from common salt	LEBLANC
Habitual wearer of a wimple in modern times	NUN
Historically, an official language of Yugoslavia	serbo-croat
IN 1962, IBM stated that ____ would be their primary development language	COBOL
In music, an earlier name for the major scale	Ionian mode
In similes, like a judge rather than a lord	SOBER
Johnny Cash hit about father and son conflict	A Boy Named Sue
Largest city by population in Africa's Maghreb region	CASABLANCA
Near London Bridge, the former home of a tabby called Doorkins Magnificat	Southwark Cathedral
Offenbach and Lehár composed in this genre	OPERETTA
Philosophy's law of ____ says that a thing is the same as itself	IDENTITY
Possible feature of a beach at low tide, resembling the creature that created it	worm cast
Robert ____ won an Oscar for his role as a country music singer in the 1983 film Tender Mercies	DUVALL
Something ____ is final or most extreme	ULTIMATE
The magazine Punch was also called The London ____	CHARIVARI
The protagonist of the 1903 The ____ is Buck, a dog weighing 140 pounds	Call Of The Wild
The transformation of a radioactive particle by the emission of radiation	DECAY
The ____ was a major Madchester location, open 1982-97	HACIENDA
This bone is under the thumb	TRAPEZIUM
This may be snaffle, curb or ring	BIT
To do this well, you should understand contours and magnetic north	map-read
Traditional name for a painting showing the events described in Matthew 2:11	Adoration of the Magi
Type of cord made from fibre in animal intestine walls	CATGUT
Usually in a predictive statement, to have an unhappy outcome	end in tears
Your head; to improvise music aimlessly	NOODLE
____ played Mary Fisher in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil	Patricia Hodge
____ played Ruth Ellis and Elizabeth I in 1980s roles	Miranda Richardson
____ species are often identified by a number of bands	ARMADILLO
____s fought behind enemy lines in the Burma campaign	CHINDIT