The Times - Specialist - February 2 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 199
Clues	Answers
"IBM says the ____ is king. At Amstrad, we only want your money!" (Alan Sugar)	CUSTOMER
"So glistered the dire snake, and into ____ / Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the tree" (Milton)	FRAUD
1972 US movie about politics, starring Robert Redford	The Candidate
A drug used to relieve tension	RELAXER
A replacement for a starting pitcher in a baseball game	RELIEVER
A sign that something has been in a location	TRACE
Administrative area including Beamish Museum and Bishop Auckland	County Durham
American writer of populist music like the ballet Rodeo	Aaron Copland
Australia's Lake ____ is only full a few times in a century	EYRE
Barrier island of the lagoon of Venice	LIDO
Bird of prey which recolonised Scotland naturally in the 1950s, especially at Loch Garten	OSPREY
British javelin thrower who won silver medals in four global championships, three behind Jan Zelezny	Steve Backley
Chateau in the grounds of Versailles, built for Louis XV's mistress	Petit Trianon
Commonly, the Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons	Blues and Royals
Costing one 80th of a pre-decimalisation pound	THREEPENNY
Creature whose home appears on Utah state highway signs	BEE
Dendroaspis polylepis, the second-longest venomous snake species	black mamba
Form of stationery on which Vladimir Nabokov wrote his novels	index cards
Former Olympic field event, last contested in 1912	Standing long jump
Goethe's ____s include "Painting and tattooing of the body is a return to animalism" and "The classical is health; and the romantic, disease"	MAXIM
Greek culture minister who wanted some marbles back	Melina Mercouri
Greyish wingless insect, seen as a household pest	SILVERFISH
How careful planners may look	a long way ahead
In most English-speaking countries, this separates the integral and fractional parts of a number	decimal point
Informally, someone's neck	SCRAG
London location noted for gentlemen's outfitters	Jermyn Street
Member of an east Germanic tribe which established kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula	VANDAL
Military term for guard duty	sentry-go
North Pacific Ocean marine mammal which uses tools	sea otter
Representations of plans or theories	SCHEMATA
Rubgy union's flankers and number eight in are ____ forwards	LOOSE
Scenic road on the side of a mountain or cliff	CORNICHE
South American palm tree or its blackish-purple berries	ACAI
Spice obtained from tree bark	CINNAMON
The largest European member of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1961-92	YUGOSLAVIA
The main gastric enzyme in the human digestive system	PEPSIN
The Nissan ____ was the company's flagship limousine	PRESIDENT
The point on the celestial sphere opposite to the zenith	NADIR
The river on which Albuquerque stands	Rio Grande
The river on which Ipswich stands	ORWELL
The ____ Guard served as bodyguards for Roman emperors	PRAETORIAN
Third-largest city of Cyprus, on its southern coast	LARNACA
Traumatic memory supposedly "cleared" in practices of the Church of Scientology	ENGRAM
Type of aircraft requiring no runway	VTOL
US slang for something excellent (spelling with Z)	LOLLAPALOOZA
Vietnamese soup with meat and rice noodles	PHO
West and East ____ are northern provinces of Belgium	FLANDERS
____ acid is made from ammonia in the Ostwald process	NITRIC
____ crosses the Thames at the eastern end of Battersea Park	Chelsea Bridge
____ first became world welterweight champion in 1946	Sugar Ray Robinson