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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2016 07 17
The Times Specialist
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Answer
Usual kind of motor for small boats
OUTBOARD
BIBLICAL HANDMAID LOSING HEART IN THE MIST
HAAR
DULL FELLOW NO LONGER AN ENTICEMENT, INADEQUATE EUROPEAN
LURDANE
Tropical plant also called gumbo
OKRA
LANGUAGE OF BIRDS TWITCHING
AVESTIC
Small marsupial of the didelphidae family
OPOSSUM
STAR CHARACTER AT THE END COMING TO THE FORE AS RULER
AMIR
STICKY STUFF, GALLONS, ON BODY OF WATER, SURFACING
GLOOP
Protective secretion of various membranes
MUCUS
SOUTHERN US RELATION, PRICKLY TYPE ONE SHOULD AVOID
BRER
AT EG MURRAYFIELD TESTED OUT SOFT GRASS
preed
Fish seen from Rupert’s yacht at sea
trachypterus
Having someone up — a person at match losing head and angry
ridered
1984 novel by J G Ballard
EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Clerk hired by Uriah Heep
WILKINS MICAWBER
Colour TV system used in the UK and most of Europe
PAL
Jason ____, British Touring Car driver
PLATO
Soft cheese whose name means “cooked again” in Italian
RICOTTA
Ubiquitous item of laboratory equipment
BUNSEN BURNER
LIVELY SCOTTISH VERSES IN LONGER WORK WITH YEN FOR LOVE
CANTY
Ancient relations somehow scattered, having gone west
EMES
WORD TO ATTRACT ATTENTION ABOUT BIRD MISAPPROPRIATED IN SCOTLAND
STEALT
Suzanne Vega song sampled for Centuries by Fall Out Boy
Tom's Diner
Based on its annual festival of sculpture, nickname of Harbin in China
Ice City
SNAKE IN THE TROSSACHS, SAY, UPSET BY SPLINTER
ELAPS
Soak to promote loosening of fibres
RET
Informally, the quality of being fashionable
COOLTH
Body of water such as Haweswater
RESERVOIR
Languages of north-east — a study needed into such
Na-Dene
INDIVIDUAL NOT GETTING ON, OLD GOSSIP KEEN NO LONGER
persaunt
Novel whose opening line is “Call me Ishmael”
Moby-Dick
FUNGUS USED IN BREWING AND BAKING
YEAST
LAMENT LOSING GOOD ROB
RIEVE
Star of the Roman Polanski film Tess
NASTASSJA KINSKI
Political theorist, author of The Human Condition
HANNAH ARENDT
US educational welfare system introduced in 1965
HEAD START
EXPLORER FINDS ONLY HALF OF DISPERSED PEOPLE
DIAS
Expression of disapproval with English learner needing time for instruction
TUTELAGE
Doctor who covers the absence of another
LOCUM
Named after a region of France, a lawless area of historic London
ALSATIA
Home city of snooker player Mark Selby
LEICESTER
A broad, starched neckband
ETON COLLAR
SCANDINAVIAN SPIRIT FLAVOURED WITH CARAWAY SEEDS
AKVAVIT
Rock band featuring guitarist Nuno Bettencourt
EXTREME
HATEFUL LINE AS INTRODUCTION TO CURSE
LOATH
Marine cattle class
STEERAGE
ONE DENYING SPIRITUAL REALITY COULD MAKE APOSTLE CRIER
corporealist
The gills of an oyster
BEARD
Manufacturer whose products are sometimes called hogs or bobbers
Harley-Davidson
Third book of the Old Testament
LEVITICUS
Former Warsaw Pact country where an uprising was suppressed in 1953
EAST GERMANY
Actor whose films include Seven and Ocean’s Eleven
BRAD PITT
Runaway Bride reunited director and co-stars nine years after this film
PRETTY WOMAN
First British winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
SANDIE SHAW
BIRD REPRESENTED AS AN ANGEL
SALANGANE
Kaiser Chiefs single released in 2004 and 2005
I Predict a Riot
Criminal plea, the Latin word for “elsewhere”
ALIBI
To formally propose for election
NOMINATE
FABRIC WITH FOLD NEEDED BY THAT LADY?
PLEATHER
1991 action comedy starring Bruce Willis
HUDSON HAWK
Siren said to lure sailors onto rocks with her voice
LORELEI
Device which displays a script
AUTOCUE
Reggie Perrin’s shop with “ideal gifts for people you hate”
GROT
PART OF FLOWER KEEPING ALMOST COMPLETELY DRY BY A WALL
PARIETAL
OPTIMISM OF FELLOW HOARDING GOLD
MORALE
Literally a witness; one who suffers or dies for their beliefs
MARTYR
MP who replaced Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer
Alistair Darling
Madonna’s co-star in Desperately Seeking Susan
Rosanna Arquette
Narrow passage’s superior look beyond street entering wood
FISTULAR
Tony ____, actor and comedian, a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
SLATTERY
Female left half-abandoned in jail — the ultimate punishment?
STIFLER
EDIBLE SUBSTANCE CONSUMED BY TRAVELLER PERHAPS
LERP
SKUNKS, FIRST TO AVOID TAX SET UP
ATOCS
HEN NOT ENTIRELY IN GOOD HEALTH NEEDING SPELL OF WARMTH
WELSUMMER
HASSOCK WITH FRAYED EDGES? SEWER WOULD HAVE USED THIS ONCE
NEELE
SOFTENING OF LANGUAGE ONLINE NEEDS TO BE ORGANISED, IT IS ADMITTED
LENITION
Unit of food energy content
KILOCALORIE
Instrumental hit single for Hot Butter in 1972
POPCORN
____ Tharp, choreographer who worked on the films Hair and Amadeus
TWYLA
Disprove first of “facts” in one bit of film?
REFEL
OLD-FASHIONED LOOK OF QUAINT RIVER
TWEER
Nun more involved in ancillary work than worship
LAY SISTER
Satirical show created by “Luck and Flaw”
SPITTING IMAGE
British commentator regarded as the voice of golf
Peter Alliss
INDIAN LOINCLOTH
DHOTI
The first mass-produced hybrid car, made by Toyota
PRIUS
Meringue and fruit dessert
PAVLOVA
Road surfacing material patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley
TARMACADAM
Dreamy talk? Some of it is due to a drug
AMYTAL
Herb often used in fish dish sauces
PARSLEY
Points of honour with deceitful type falling short
OBELIA
A type of long grained rice
BASMATI
Wood traditionally used for black piano keys
EBONY
Australian cricketer who played for Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Durham
Michael Hussey
Swimmer who won two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1978
SHARRON DAVIES
SUPPORTS LEADER OF THIEVES BREAKING INTO LOCK
TRESTS