The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A possible one-word summary of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar TYRANNICIDE
A more specific word, such as “chair” for “furniture” HYPONYM
Named by a Spanish expedition in 1606, Vanuatu’s largest island Espiritu Santo
Large and fast-moving fish related to mackerel WAHOO
The ____ are members of class 2B at a school in Beanotown Bash Street Kids
A complex road interchange or a tangle of parts like electrical cables Spaghetti Junction
William H Macy’s co-star, as Amanda Kirby, in Jurassic Park III Tea Leoni
French equivalent of “Shut up!” tais-toi
Geological epoch from 23 to 5 million years ago, in which bipedal hominids evolved MIOCENE
Shakespeare tragedy; its eponymous Roman general has a daughter called Lavinia Titus Andronicus
A FEMALE SHEEP EWE
A classical music piece, often lively and not following standard form — Tchaikovsky wrote one inspired by a trip to Rome CAPRICCIO
RIGHT-HAND PAGE OF AN OPEN BOOK RECTO
A person’s ghostly spitting image DOPPELGANGER
Musca domestica, in plural houseflies
A folded and filled tortilla TACO
Host of BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze MICHAEL BUERK
Hablot Knight ____ illustrated many Dickens novels BROWNE
A brake pad holder CALIPER
Singer whose first UK No 1 single was Burn ELLIE GOULDING
Material which transports fat molecules in, for example, blood plasma LIPOPROTEIN
Musical instruction usually following a pizzicato section ARCO
MYOPIC short-sighted
1945 conference site and capital of Brandenburg POTSDAM
One-word anagram of IT’S ALL TRUE ILLUSTRATE
Capital city whose name comes from an Algonquin word meaning “to trade” OTTAWA
The Bank of England’s lending index base rate
Senior barrister often referred to as a silk King's Counsel
In India, a mountain pass, a river landing place, or a cremation site GHAT