The Times - Specialist - October 16 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 340
Clues	Answers
"Leaning over me, he was trying to explain ___" (Abba, When I Kissed the Teacher)	the laws of geometry
1765 tax legislation affecting British colonies in America	Stamp Act
2002 sci-fi horror film directed by M Night Shyamalan	SIGNS
A large variety of cooking apple, named after a royal	Lane's Prince Albert
A rain cloud	NIMBUS
A single-pointed tooth	unicuspid
Actor who played Chief Martin Brody in Jaws and Jaws 2	Roy Scheider
Art historian Roy ____ became the youngest director of London's V&A museum in 1973	STRONG
Banks of marine fog which move inland	sea frets
BBC sitcom set in Balby, South Yorkshire	Open All Hours
Capital of Brazil's state of Rondonia, on the River Madeira, also a possible name for a (different) vintage wine	Porto Velho
Colloquially, that which has a local-part, @, and a domain	ADDY
Constriction of a bodily passage	STENOSIS
Dancing star in the 1976 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show	Angela Rippon
Early in the 1988 Olympic 5000m final, Kenyan John ____ broke away with a 2:01 800m spell and was never overtaken	ngugi
First Test cricketer to reach 200 wickets and 2000 runs	Richie Benaud
First woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, in 1930	Amy Johnson
Flogs or thrashes	LARRUPS
Formal leave of absence	EXEAT
Former name for the city which became Bratislava in 1919	pressburg
In a bridge hand, a holding of two cards in the same suit	DOUBLETON
Latin name for both the Virgin Mary and the star Polaris as a guide for sailors	Stella Maris
Lyricist for the 1958 musical film Gigi	Alan Jay Lerner
Main antagonist in the film Blade Runner	Roy Batty
Max ____, AI character played by Matt Frewer	HEADROOM
MP who described David Cameron and George Osborne as "two arrogant posh boys"	Nadine Dorries
Old name for the three days before Lent	SHROVETIDE
Patriarch with 969-year life span, the longest in the Bible	METHUSELAH
Privately-owned body administering UK School exams	EDEXCEL
Product exploiting a related work in another medium	tie-in
Rosalind is the protagonist of this Shakespeare play	as you like it
Section of society most influenced by commercials	ADMASS
Shrub of the tea family with rose-like flowers	CAMELLIA
Spanish for "aunt", seen in a liqueur name	TIA
Sudden deep fall in security prices, especially as a result of automated trading	flash crash
That which attracts pollinators	NECTAR
The Big Bang Theory character played by Jim Parsons	Sheldon Cooper
The Chester ____ Plays are a medieval drama series revived in 1951, and will next be performed in June and July 2023	MYSTERY
The Federated States of ____ has 271 square miles of land and just over a million square miles of the Pacific Ocean	MICRONESIA
The first solar system planet identified as such by use of a telescope	URANUS
The Lord of the Rings character first introduced as Strider	ARAGORN
The river that ran "through caverns measureless to man" in Coleridge's Kubla Khan	ALPH
The River ___ formed the boundary between Essex and Middlesex	LEA
Turkish city once called Smyrna	IZMIR
Unfinished novel by F Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1941	The Last Tycoon
Vengeful sorceress of Greek myth, a granddaughter of Helios	MEDEA
Welsh actress who played Gossamer Beynon in the 1971 film version of Under Milk Wood	Angharad Rees
Winner of the Cartier Horse of the Year award in 2017 and 2019	ENABLE
____ became the first female President of Argentina in 1974	Isabel Peron
____ played the second Bond girl who Bond married	Diana Rigg