The Times - Specialist - December 29 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 194
Clues	Answers
"And ____ love, the way that you do" (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter)	close with
"Edward, I thought I said no more ____" (Twelve Days of Christmas [Correspondence], John Julius Norwich (seventh day))	BIRDS
"The dusky night rides down the sky, / And ____ in the morn" (Henry Fielding)	USHERS
"The joys and sorrows sailors find, Coop'd in their winged ____ citadel" (Byron)	sea-girt
"They are useless. They can only give you ____" (Pablo Picasso, on computers)	ANSWERS
"____ homo factus est / Natura mirante" (Gaudete)	DEUS
"____ roasting on an open fire" (The Christmas Song)	CHESTNUTS
1847 Christmas song by Adolphe Adam	O Holy Night
A ____ camera may show you more about the bird life in your garden	nest box
About 300,000 ____ are offered on the Exchange and Mart website	used cars
Actor who starred in 2D	Jimmy Stewart
Although not mentioned in the laws of either code, ____ is seen as one of rugby's most heinous acts	GOUGING
An elf, in a seasonal or showbiz context	ASSISTANT
An organic compound with the group -O- in its molecules	ETHER
Archipelago which became Scotland's first Unesco world heritage site in 1986	St Kilda
Carol with a melody originally used for Nos Galan, a Welsh carol	Deck the Halls
Comedian Max Miller was the "Cheeky ____"	CHAPPIE
Common component of a traditional British Christmas dinner	bread sauce
Culicoides impunctatus is the highland ____	MIDGE
Description of a musical instrument mentioned in Psalms 33, 92 and 144	ten-stringed
Dome-shaped home of beavers	LODGE
Film based on a 1943 short story called The Greatest Gift	It's a Wonderful Life
Foodstuff rated on the Scoville scale	CHILLI
Fraction sometimes indicated by the Greek letter mu	MILLIONTH
German bread traditionally eaten at Christmas	STOLLEN
Hamlet character in a painting by John Everett Millais	OPHELIA
Idealistic	UTOPIAN
If you do this puzzle promptly, it will be over soon	old year
Important component of an Enigma machine	ROTOR
In backgammon, a single checker on a point	BLOT
Intergovernmental grouping, founded in Addis Ababa in 1963	oau
Joshua's father in the Old Testament	NUN
Levers are classified according to the relative positions of the ____, resistance and effort	FULCRUM
Madly in love	MOONSTRUCK
Make an important step in wedding planning	name the day
Moving in an overdramatic way	flouncing
Night before an important Christian festival	Easter Eve
Nonsense	BILGE
Not paying attention	ASLEEP
Philosophical novel which won the 2002 Man Booker prize	Life of Pi
Philosophical viewpoint described by Turgenev in Fathers and Sons	NIHILISM
Pudding of a different style to a Christmas pudding	WHIP
Relating to the creation of legislation	law-giving
Scenario which may lead to bankruptcy	debt trap
Seasonal collection which started with a green book in 1961 and continued with an orange one in 1970	Carols for Choirs
Seasonal film featuring an American 2-8-4 Berkshire type steam engine	Polar Express
Serious challenge	tall order
Singer with Christmas songs in first and third place on the world all-time bestselling singles list	Bing Crosby
Some music fans of the early 1980s	punkettes
Songs imitated in some Christmas carols	LULLABIES
Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire crowned its ____ Queen on December 7	MISTLETOE
The nature of posh people dressed for a Boxing Day walk?	tweediness
The type of sleigh portrayed in one movement of Prokoviev's Lieutenant Kijé suite	TROIKA
Top gadget gift for Christmas 2010, according to a UK consumer survey	IPAD
Trixie's health initiative at the beginning of series five of Call the Midwife	keep-fit class
Waited for something like Christmas, as we did in our youth	counted the hours
What mommy was seen doing in a song recorded by Jimmy Boyd in 1952	Kissing Santa Claus
____ plants have short life cycles	EPHEMERAL
____'s arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter has soprano and tenor solos for two of the four verses	Harold Darke