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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2016 07 03
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE
ZEITGEIST
Stage name of guitarist Saul Hudson
SLASH
Members of an association responsible for upkeep of lighthouses, buoys etc
Trinity Brethren
Person who takes impromptu photographs
snap-shooter
Dutch football club whose arch rivals are Feyenoord
AJAX
THE FRENCH FROM NOT LONG PAST PUBLISH AS BEFORE
DELATE
ANTI-TRINITARIAN BELIEF IN MINNESOTA I FANCY
noetianism
Lawyer’s authenticating memo coming up in report
NOTARISING
No new option in play, they’re stock themes
topoi
Oppose switching last two for second exams
RESITS
Term for Oscar Wilde wasn’t wicked — bent maybe
WINDLESTRAW
Travel with writers, more than a handful from Scotland
gowpens
Where actress Meryl keeps on being together
IN STEP
“Very” as a musical instruction
ASSAI
American version of clay pigeon shooting
SKEET
Ancient Greek coin, one sixth of a drachma
OBOL
Cloth garment worn by Roman soldiers
SAGUM
Comedian voted Wales’s Sexiest Male in 2010
Rhod Gilbert
Gaelic word for cotton grass
cannach
Important prop in Wagner’s Ring and Parsifal
SPEAR
Lowest layer of a thermally stratified lake
hypolimnion
Mohamed Elshorbagy is ranked world number 1 in this sport
SQUASH
Poem that could be Pindaric or Horatian
ODE
Presenter of Mock the Week
DARA O BRIAIN
Ravines or valleys (singularly, often used in northwestern place names)
cloughs
Taxonomic groups of closely related species
GENERA
Terence ____ wrote The Browning Version and Separate Tables
RATTIGAN
TEST OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE AFTER SIX SHOT
TRIAL
ECHO IN MUSIC, POSSIBLY IN RHYTHM AND BLUES
REVERB
WEAPON FROM PESSIMIST, WHICHEVER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT
SIMI
TENSE GENTLEMAN WAS VERY HOT IN REVOLUTION? COULD BE THIS RUSSIAN
DEKABRIST
Successful British reggae band of the 1970s
MATUMBI
FANCY SILVER IMPORTED BY INDEPENDENT RICH SOURCE
IMAGINE
ONE STRAPPING BEAR TAKEN UP BY HUNTER
CHASTISER
VAST AGE OF ONE POWERLESS INDIAN MESSENGER
AEON
In The Blues Brothers, nickname of Jake Blues
JOLIET
Considers mode adopted by French composer
DELIBERATES
Cuckoos nest mostly in bases of another species
ANIS
Face packs are good for a heathen
PAGAN
Mean old Doctor looks down on flipping bloody nose!
WHORESON
Rose and Doris somehow connected in a sisterly way
sororised
Some resistance shown by the Queen in note rejected
OHMS
Tax cut on Queen I’d enforce
IMPOSER
Fictional fishing village of Under Milk Wood
LLAREGGUB
1991 single by Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Actor and politician nicknamed The Governator
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Almost nobody clearing border litter
Norimon
A hand tool, also a cocktail
GIMLET
A type of carry-all
TOTE BAG
Have contracted a little rock salt
HALITE
Author whose most famous creation was Simon Templar
Leslie Charteris
Bee Gees song covered by Steps in 1998
TRAGEDY
Cumbrian town at the mouth of the River Derwent
workington
CHINK COMING FROM EDGE AND CENTRE OF GLASS
RIMA
Governor of Massachusetts 2003-2007
MITT ROMNEY
Having eyes or markings resembling them
oculate
International theatre company founded by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod
CHEEK BY JOWL
Mexican music traditionally performed by strolling players
MARIACHI
Neil Young and Crazy Horse album of 2012
AMERICANA
Number 1 single of 1984 with prominent saxophone played by Steve Gregory
CARELESS WHISPER
Recently reinstated coach of Andy Murray
IVAN LENDL
Roughly horseshoe-shaped loop in a river
OXBOW
Seaside town of North Yorkshire strongly associated with Dracula
WHITBY
Singer known as Alf during her time with Yazoo
Alison Moyet
Sprinkled with cheese and/or breadcrumbs
AU GRATIN
The ____, nickname of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt
INTIMIDATOR
Wild oxen extinct since 1627
aurochses
____ title, absolute ownership of land
ALLODIAL
A couple of diamonds beginning to fade, mounted back to back
ADDORSED
Poor resolution rejected in secret chamber
SERDAB
According to Chambers dictionary, “an improbable source of improbable benefits”
SANTA CLAUS
Pen name of Mary Ann Evans
GEORGE ELIOT
Welsh lad composed poem for his country
AWDL
Lots of scenery — different kinds under wraps
LANDSKIPS
Actress who played Edie Pegden in Last of the Summer Wine
THORA HIRD
TEXAN CITY ON THE RIO GRANDE
EL PASO
The only F1 Grand Prix circuit whose track crosses over itself
SUZUKA
Epistle to Dr ____, Pope poem which introduced the phrase “damn with faint praise”
ARBUTHNOT
Unknown lyric once gone
yode
Volunteers holding pen for an African
TSWANA
A strong NE wind overturned Asian carriage
AROBA
The northern tabloid mostly wrong — huge current dangers at sea
TSUNAMIS
1994 film starring 20
TRUE LIES
1994 film whose star Brandon Lee died in an accident while filming
THE CROW
Actress who portrayed Miss Marple
Geraldine McEwan
Evening activities at resorts such as Verbier
apres-ski
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF KENYA AND TANZANIA
SWAHILI
Very good Eastern plantation?
TOPE
Chippies knocked out seat around lake
EATERIES
Motorsport which was created at Lydden Hill
RALLYCROSS
Japanese art depicting everyday life
ukiyo-e
____ Stark, actress who had a relationship with Prince Andrew
KOO
The foxglove or a heart stimulant derived from it
DIGITALIS
Publication launched on February 29, 2016 and closed on May 6
NEW DAY
Edna ____, author of The Country Girls
O'Brien
FISH, ESPECIALLY A FLATFISH WITHOUT TAIL
ESPADA