The Times - Specialist - November 13 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 344
Clues	Answers
“And her yes, once said to you, / SHALL be Yes for ____” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Lady's Yes)	EVERMORE
“Before this campaign started, it was said that I was facing political oblivion, my career in ____” (Peter Mandelson, after his 2001 re-election as MP for Hartlepool)	TATTERS
1943 film, Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite of those he directed	Shadow Of A Doubt
1993 biographical drama film directed by Richard Attenborough	SHADOWLANDS
A city and its outskirts, especially when measuring population	urban area
A thankless wretch	INGRATE
A version of this Errol Garner jazz standard was Johnny Mathis’s signature song	MISTY
A yoga posture	ASANA
Airline noted for stringent security procedures	El Al
American singer/songwriter who is the daughter of Ravi Shankar	Norah Jones
An earthquake detector	SEISMOMETER
An insignificant matter	small potatoes
Andean mountain, Earth’s highest outside Asia	ACONCAGUA
Ben E King song and a 1985 film starring Wil Wheaton	Stand by Me
Body of water between Iceland and Greenland	Denmark Strait
British swimmer who won four medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games	Sharron Davies
Canadian model who said “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day”	Linda Evangelista
Cowes Week is an example of this sporting event	REGATTA
Demon who slays seven husbands on their wedding nights in the Book of Tobit	ASMODEUS
Director of the 1985 film Ran	Akira Kurosawa
Facial decoration; a device to help in leading cattle	nose ring
First book of Anne McCaffrey’s Harper Hall of Pern sci-fi trilogy	dragonsong
Generic name, in use since the 18th century, for a British soldier	Tommy Atkins
Georges ____’s La Disparition, translated as A Void, is a novel with no e’s in it	PEREC
German state of which Dresden is the capital	SAXONY
Haiti’s capital city	Port-au-Prince
Having two colours	DICHROMATIC
In Greek myth, Rhea or Tethys but not Hyperion	TITANESS
In sport, a play which makes scoring possible	ASSIST
In this maybe illicit task, a tension wrench may be used	picking a lock
Lancashire town in which the Pilkington glass company was founded	St Helens
Milton’s companion piece to L’Allegro	Il Penseroso
Musical instruction usually abbreviated to 8va	all' ottava
News-based TV series, which ran for 52 years before switching to BBC Radio 4	What the Papers Say
Old firearm which, appropriately, might have been a Colt	horse pistol
Operating, as a factory for example	on stream
Pablo ____ founded Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel	ESCOBAR
Robin Williams played Peter Pan in this 1991 film	HOOK
Scottish island known colloquially as Paddy’s milestone	Ailsa Craig
Technical term for a bend or fold	FLEXURE
The Hebridean “Hawaii of the North”, an island noted for surf and sun	TIREE
To walk wearily	TRAIPSE
TV series featuring an unseen boss voiced by John Forsythe	Charlie's Angels
Welsh artist whose works include a 1919 portrait of TE Lawrence	Augustus John
____ Alfredo is a pasta dish created in Rome, but more popular in the US	FETTUCCINE
____ was the first presenter of The X Factor	Kate Thornton