The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2016 07 31

crossword answers
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