The Times Specialist Sunday puzzle clues 2020 Apr 26

• 13th-century Earl of Leicester who led baronial opposition to Henry III and was briefly the de facto ruler of England Crossword Clue
• 17th-century Spanish painter noted for his portraits (spelling with no 's') Crossword Clue
• 1972 film about a public schoolboy who became a cavalry officer, war correspondent and MP Crossword Clue
• 1988 film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, which won four Oscars including best picture Crossword Clue
• 1990s BBC comedy series starring Dawn French in crime and thriller parodies Crossword Clue
• A mountainside mass of loose stones Crossword Clue
• A name for diesel fuel, derived from an acronym Crossword Clue
• An inducement to accept a deal Crossword Clue
• A North American tribe or confederation of tribes Crossword Clue
• A pinkish semi-precious stone Crossword Clue
• A ____ story is often one about human kindness Crossword Clue
• A sun lounge or greenhouse on the side of a house Crossword Clue
• Beef shoulder or brisket, cured, spiced, smoked and steamed Crossword Clue
• Body of land between Cardigan and Caernarfon bays Crossword Clue
• Body part, of cephalopod molluscs such as squid Crossword Clue
• British winner of best actress Oscars for Howards End and Sense and Sensibility Crossword Clue
• Caramel-like cheese made partly or wholly from goat’s milk Crossword Clue
• Component in electronics, producing a false result when all inputs are true Crossword Clue
• Football club whose first shirt sponsor was the Japanese electronics company Sharp, for 18 seasons starting with 1982-83 Crossword Clue
• “Good afternoon. Shouldn’t you be at work?” (Des ____, introducing TV coverage of an England World Cup match) Crossword Clue
• If you ____ something, you made it feasible or likelier Crossword Clue
• In 1937 a ____ replaced Britannia on the reverse side of farthings Crossword Clue
• In British usage, the object of this verb is nearly always a flint Crossword Clue
• In geometry, a transformation with no change in shape or size, such as rotation Crossword Clue
• In Greek myth, a mountain nymph Crossword Clue
• Joseph ____ wrote the poem “Stille Nacht” for which Franz Gruber wrote a melody and guitar accompaniment in 1818 Crossword Clue
• Kind of memory normally used for computer firmware Crossword Clue
• Latin for “hail” or “welcome” Crossword Clue
• Port in southwest Finland, the capital city before Helsinki Crossword Clue
• Representing expectations rather than reality Crossword Clue
• Someone involved in crime and/or violence Crossword Clue
• Someone who wants power or wrongly thinks they have it Crossword Clue
• ____ spectabilis is better known as bleeding heart Crossword Clue
• Standard of comparison used to check experimental results Crossword Clue
• “That’s easy” or “It doesn’t matter” Crossword Clue
• The apposite nickname of an American folk artist who was born in 1860 and died in 1961 Crossword Clue
• The best-known exponent of Catalan modernism Crossword Clue
• The capital and largest city of Chad Crossword Clue
• The only Briton to win gold in an Olympic javelin final Crossword Clue
• The planet orbited by the Cassini probe from 2004 to 2017 Crossword Clue
• The protagonist in Thomas Hardy’s final novel Crossword Clue
• The third pharaoh of Egypt’s 19th dynasty Crossword Clue
• The world’s longest river flowing into an inland body of water rather than the sea Crossword Clue
• Tomas de Torquemada was Spain’s first Grand ____ Crossword Clue
• “Valued for their racemes of foxglove-like flowers, ____s are elegant and reliable border perennials” (RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers) Crossword Clue
• Victorian overcoat, with a shorter cape than an Inverness Crossword Clue
• What some people do with espresso and paella Crossword Clue
• Word such as “bagel”, “chutzpah”, or “mensch” Crossword Clue