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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2016 07 31
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
Spoil what ends dire performance based solely on routine
ROTE
Norfolk setting for Arthur Ransome’s child’s novel Coot Club
THE BROADS
Delicately framed panel and fine boxes
ELFIN
Choice is all but full
PLUM
Such plates are personalised registrations
VANITY
___ Barlow played Mavis Wilton in Coronation Street
THELMA
GENERAL MOTORS EXPAND
ENLARGE
State capital of Kansas
TOPEKA
Waiting to be dealt with
IN THE PIPELINE
Ancient port, originally on the mouth of the Tiber
OSTIA
Shake Latin learner lodging in Trinity
TRILLO
Army rank between colonel and major general
BRIGADIER
GO AHEAD WITH PLAN FOR SMALL COIN
DOIT
Chinese fruit fired up life force for them
LITCHI
… run through, eg, Private Eye’s little mud-slinging
scan mag
A lot he wasted bottling new alcohol
ETHANOL
Gather last of these together no more
in fere
Jurisdiction of the chief justices of Jersey and Guernsey
BAILIWICK
Surrey town at the foot of the North Downs
EWELL
Village on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula between Pwllheli and Abersoch
llanbedrog
AT GRETNA GREEN, TEST BY KISSING GROOM ENDLESSLY
PREE
First property on the UK’s standard Monopoly board
OLD KENT ROAD
Ground-breaking BBC TV interview programme presented by John Freeman
FACE TO FACE
Ross Kemp’s role in EastEnders
Grant Mitchell
ADULT LEADER OF A PACK OF CUB SCOUTS
AKELA
Deeply impress English over Scots split
ENGRAVE
Slang term for a pound
NICKER
The cruellest month, according to TS Eliot
APRIL
Dutch port, the birthplace of Erasmus
ROTTERDAM
Knowledgeable in literature
LETTERED
Russian composer of Scheherazade and Sadko
Rimsky-Korsakov
Tedious Sabbath, popular for ages in the past
long sin
Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh-based detective
Inspector Rebus
South African city besieged by the Boers for four months, 1899-1900
LADYSMITH
Bronze representation of Helios completed by Chares of Lindos around 280BC
COLOSSUS
NOTHING ADDED TO THIS HARP WOULD GIVE THE SAME LEVEL OF LOUDNESS
NEBEL
RODENT LEFT IN ORCADIAN BAY
VOLE
Bishop, say, joining firm as one who relished monkery?
beghard
Seized gear at Housman’s beacon site
cleekit
Brian in The Magic Roundabout
SNAIL
Horse-racing parade rings
PADDOCKS
One of Robert Catesby’s co-conspirators
GUY FAWKES
Pop singer whose hits include All Shook Up and Return to Sender
ELVIS PRESLEY
Verdigris for example
PATINA
Usual name for Martin Luther King’s 1963 civil rights speech at the Lincoln Memorial
I HAVE A DREAM
Italian region whose provinces include Arezzo, Grosseto and Lucca
TUSCANY
Public school which actors Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis and Eddie Redmayne attended
ETON COLLEGE
Old instruments of torture; boxes lined with metal spikes in which the prisoner was fastened
Iron maidens
FIGHTER PASSED OVER JUST MOTHER AND CREW MEMBER
AIRMAN
Sea creatures which, in medieval art, represented social love
DOLPHINS
STOCKJOBBERY? I GOT STUCK IN SINCE FINDING TIME TO MATURE
AGIOTAGE
GOUSTROUS HOWF WITH IT IN SIMILAR ABUNDANCE
FOWTH
US pouches of the highest quality, $100 from the East
CECA
Liverpudlian 1960s music
MERSEY BEAT
The first edited version of a film with scenes in sequence and the soundtrack synchronised
ROUGH CUT
Co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Direct loss as failing
DECREE
No longer discussed swapping leader and MP
emparled
King of Arms whose jurisdiction includes England north of the Trent
Norroy and Ulster
Tight corset which doesn’t show lines in lassie’s list
ROON
Russian ballet dancer who frequently partnered Margot Fonteyn
RUDOLF NUREYEV
The white poplar
ABELE
End up reining in Queen’s horse?
EQUID
Is Oct unsettled for those from San José?
TICOS
A type of well? It earns a bomb
ARTESIAN
RIGHT TO EXHIBIT CONCERNS ABOUT SHOE FASTENER
T-strap
Bet with bloody fool about a thing driven at St Andrews
gowf-ba'
Shakespeare play with What You Will as an alternative title
TWELFTH NIGHT
FRENCH PAIN? WREATH SHOWS BONES
MALLEI
Chinese system of callisthenics
TAI CHI
SUFFER SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE WAR POET
abrooke
Smart nurse binned note which could be made up
PAINTED
Form of pasta made in narrow strips
TAGLIATELLE
Epic novel about the Bezukhov, Bolkonsky and Rostov families
WAR AND PEACE
Moderate depression about over
COOL
“Great” hostilities one hundred years ago
World War One
A persistent preoccupation
OBSESSION
____ in Gaza, 1936 novel by Aldous Huxley
EYELESS
Respect manipulated something seen as a threat
SPECTRE
Spin conclusion in one struggling to see — he’ll need this?
MONOCLE
The wild ass of Central Asia
ONAGER
THIS ENABLES TRAVEL THROUGH ETERNITY
PERAEON
SOMEWHAT DUTIFUL, I OPTED TO RETURN SIMPLE SOLDAT
POILU
Devastated over losing one repeater — end of service?
DEMOB
The fancy press baron let …
noble art
Carry On star who appeared in Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne
KENNETH WILLIAMS
Sixth wife of Henry VIII
CATHERINE PARR
Sweet white German wine from individually selected bunches of very ripe grapes
AUSLESE
____ Rock was a 1980s TV series with a cast of Muppet creatures
FRAGGLE
Abstainer having entered his group quietly leaves for cover
ATTAP
Juan Manuel ___, world champion F1 driver each year from 1954 to 1957
FANGIO
Star of Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em
MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Royal burgh in Fife, the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie
DUNFERMLINE
Moliere’s miser in L’Avare
HARPAGON
Experts in training trees to create decorative shapes or animals
TOPIARISTS
Arturo ___, Italian conductor
TOSCANINI