The Times - Specialist - February 16 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 201
Clues	Answers
1971 film in which Michael Caine starred as a London gangster	Get Carter
2003 lead single from the Dido album Life for Rent	White Flag
A location for which co-ordinates are recorded in a GPS system	WAYPOINT
A loop in lace or embroidery, often decorating a border	PICOT
Actor famed for his role as Spock in Star Trek	Leonard Nimoy
Actor who played cantankerous Percy Sugden in Coronation Street	Bill Waddington
Actor who played Costas in the 1989 film Shirley Valentine	Tom Conti
Actress who played the White Witch in three films based on CS Lewis’s Narnia books	Tilda Swinton
Author of the satirical novel Candide	VOLTAIRE
Baldness	ALOPECIA
BBC sitcom featuring Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter	The Good Life
Capcom video game released in 1996, in which the objective is to escape from a mansion inhabited by zombies and similar creatures	Resident Evil
Colloquially, one with very well-developed muscles	hardbody
Comedian who said in his autobiography that “I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster”	Freddie Starr
Decorated using a watered-down paint	DISTEMPERED
Dr ____ is arrested and tried in EM Forster’s A Passage to India	AZIZ
Especially of eggs, to become rotten	ADDLE
Former name for a gastropod, ie a mollusc with a one-piece shell	UNIVALVE
George ____ was India’s surveyor general from 1830 to 1843	EVEREST
In Greek myth, a sorceress who married Jason	MEDEA
In this 1974 novel by Nadine Gordimer, the protagonist Mehring attempts to sustain nature and apartheid	The Conservationist
Messenger of the gods in Greek mythology	HERMES
Northumberland market town which held an annual “Olympic games” with running and wrestling events until the late 1950s	MORPETH
Of rock, arranged in thin layers	straticulate
Owen ____ led a Welsh uprising against Henry IV	GLENDOWER
Passerine bird associated with Baltimore	ORIOLE
Poetically, to set free	disprison
Ridden by Derek Fox, the winner of the 2017 Grand National	One For Arthur
Row of icons showing functions available in computer software	TOOLBAR
Short rope ladders used by climbers	ETRIERS
Showing all that can be seen in a single view	panoptical
Showing signs of vesication	BLISTERED
Situated beneath the tongue	hypoglossal
Spanish forename derived from the name of one of Christ’s 12 apostles	DIEGO
The “fantastical Spaniard” of Love’s Labour’s Lost	Don Adriano de Armado
The brightest star of Taurus	ALDEBARAN
The butterfly Vanessa atalanta	red admiral
The Hellenic Republic	GREECE
The Isle of Portland lies at the western end of ____	Chesil Beach
The musical name for Detroit	MOTOWN
The only male Bulgarian tennis player to have been ranked in the ATP singles top ten	Grigor Dimitrov
The sabal ____ is the state tree of both South Carolina and Florida	PALMETTO
The spirit of a culture or era	ETHOS
The ____ was a 1956 film in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan	CONQUEROR
This contains the egg cell of a seed-bearing plant	OVULE
To flow out quickly in large quantities	SPEW
To supply with arms	MUNITION
____ played Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale and presented You’ve Been Framed	Lisa Riley