The Times - Specialist - October 30 2022 Crossword Answers

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 342
Clues	Answers
"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! / The frontier town and ____ of night!" (Longfellow, Two Rivers)	CITADEL
1984 American black comedy horror film in which a small furry creature is purchased as part of a Christmas present	GREMLINS
A foot-race of just over 13 miles	half-marathon
A general knowledge crossword setter may ____ the internet to find interesting facts about ordinary things	TRAWL
A pattern using alternating squares of different colours	chequerwork
A separate part of an attack or operation	PRONG
A sports car driver may prefer to have a ____	bucket seat
A stream of northern England	BECK
Active ingredient of the proprietary drug Advil	IBUPROFEN
Actress widely known for her role as Buffy Summers	Sarah Michelle Gellar
Alternatives to woodburners, not needing chimneys	gas stoves
An Islamic jurist with the power to issue a fatwa	MUFTI
Any of the annual awards bestowed by the American Theatre Wing (New York)	TONY
Author Arthur ____ had a one-letter pseudonym	Quiller-Couch
Bob Dylan song centred on a conversation between a joker and a thief	All Along the Watchtower
Central American country in a state of civil war, 1960-96	GUATEMALA
Chrysotile is the main natural form of this incombustible material	ASBESTOS
Description of trompe-l'oeil and op art	illusionistic
Dick Emery character with the catchphrase "Ooh, you are awful, but I like you!"	MANDY
French philosopher, seen as the father of sociology	Auguste Comte
In a preoccupied manner	ABSENTLY
In Star Wars, the forest moon of the Ewoks	ENDOR
Informally, a British territory with a sheep on its flag	FALKLANDS
Informally, an assertion that a situation is just	fair's fair
Informally, lifts some wheels	twocs
James IV was the last British monarch to die in battle, at ____ Field in 1513	FLODDEN
Jane ____ played Marie Curie in a 1977 BBC miniseries and Edith Piaf in RSC productions of an autobiographical play	lapotaire
Journalist whose career started with Melody Maker, and whose Twitter feed was included in a 2014 A-level English syllabus	Caitlin Moran
Kellogg's cereal of dried fruit and fibre-rich flakes	Sultana Bran
Liz Truss meant to outlaw this form of street harassment	CATCALL
Noël Coward play featuring clairvoyant Madame Arcati	blithe spirit
North Sea oil storage facility occupied by Greenpeace in 1995, campaigning against Shell's intention to sink it at sea	Brent Spar
Only Greek letter with the same number of letters after it in the Greek alphabet as the letter with a very similar capital form has in the English alphabet	CHI
Pub equipment to protect glasses and speed up drying	drip mat
Ritual of North America's Hopi Indians	snake dance
Roman fortification built to repel the Scots and Picts	Hadrian's Wall
Security agency headquartered at the Doughnut	GCHQ
Slender and mostly bottom-dwelling marine fish	EELPOUT
Someone like Casanova, Byron or Frank Harris	skirt-chaser
The 1937 edition of the workshop manual ____'s Handbook has sections on soldering and brazing, riveting and boring bars	MACHINERY
The former leader of ____ said its depiction in The Da Vinci Code was a chance to publicise its religious work	Opus Dei
The Palace of Westminster's tallest structure	Victoria Tower
The Sea Road to ____ is a ferry service from Wemyss Bay to the main town of Bute	ROTHESAY
The trade union led by Mick Lynch	rmt
This predatory fish can be five feet long in European species	PIKE
Unheated structure used to protect small plants	cold frame
US term for a double one in dice games	snake eyes
Welsh for "speckled", part of the name of a fruit loaf	brith
Words before a novel title in many film descriptions	adapted from
____ up, accurately aligned	TRUED