The Times - Specialist - February 9 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 200
Clues	Answers
“People definitely did that in ____ when I was growing up” (Alan Davies on QI, on Romans vomiting to carry on eating)	PUBS
“These ____s are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits” (Madame Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled, 1877)	ELEMENTAL
1980s sitcom starring Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton	Ever Decreasing Circles
A firearm so named for the process of adding a spiral groove in the barrel	RIFLE
A nickname of Arizona	Apache State
A period of (typically) US medical training	INTERNSHIP
A witticism	jeu d'esprit
Actress who won an Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator	Cate Blanchett
British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis	Lucian Freud
Comedians for whom Raleigh made a three-man tandem	The Goodies
Facetiously, a feigned display of environmental concern	GREENWASH
Fish of the order Anguilliformes	EELS
Form of off-road racing which evolved from trials riding	MOTOCROSS
Former Arsenal midfielder who joined Liverpool in August 2017	Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Former province of South Africa, now combined with KwaZulu	NATAL
Grammatical feature of Latin and German	dative case
Infusion made with immature or minimally processed leaves	white tea
Marsupial, roughly the size of a rabbit	rat-kangaroo
Max ____ was Kafka’s literary executor who disobeyed his instruction to burn his unpublished works	BROD
Misuse of therapy believed to be hypothetical, but banned in sport by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2003	gene doping
One authorised to remove property until a debt is paid	sequestrator
One who specialises in the classification of diseases	nosologist
Only one prime number is ____	EVEN
Organ stop representing the characteristic organ sound	DIAPASON
Pigment of various colours from yellow to brown	OCHRE
Portable free-reed organs	ACCORDIONS
Practically essential part of a sentence	noun phrase
Remarkable people or things	PHENOMENA
Resort formerly promoted as the “suntrap of the south”	EASTBOURNE
SI unit of electromotive force	VOLT
Simon Pegg’s co-star in such films as Hot Fuzz and Paul	Nick Frost
Slight forward convergence in car wheels to improve steering and equalize tyre wear	toe-in
Sport introduced to the Olympic Games in 1988	table tennis
The 200th UK No 1 single, in 1965	HELP
The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours is also called Divine ____	OFFICE
The sequel to Saturday Night Fever	Staying Alive
The ____ are sea stacks at the west end of the Isle of Wight	NEEDLES
Theatres of ancient Greece and Rome	ODEONS
To date, the only female Prime Minister of France	Edith Cresson
To work too hard	overdo it
Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001	VS Naipaul
UK game show based on the final stage of the Netherlands show Miljoenenjacht	Deal or No Deal
What Anthony Burgess called “the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers […] demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight”	SLANG
____ is worth £200 on the usual British Monopoly board	Vine Street
____ of Scotland is a clothing company, whose website claims that it coined the term “knitwear”	PRINGLE
____ plains are created by long-term deposition of sediment by rivers	ALLUVIAL
____ Tanaka is a Bond ally in You Only Live Twice	TIGER
____’s lines in Do They Know It’s Christmas began “But say a prayer”	George Michael