The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 08 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
____ Davis starred as Barbara Maitland in Beetlejuice GEENA
England’s highest mountain SCAFELL PIKE
GERMAN FOOTBALLER WHO WON THE WORLD CUP AS PLAYER AND MANAGER FRANZ BECKENBAUER
Pigment originally made from lapis lazuli ULTRAMARINE
Daniel ____, former leader and current president of Nicaragua ORTEGA
Dutch football team founded in 1913 for employees of Philips PSV Eindhoven
JOHN GREEN NOVEL INSPIRED BY A LINE IN JULIUS CAESAR The Fault in Our Stars
HEBREW NAME FOR GOD, TRANSLITERATED FROM A SEQUENCE OF FOUR CONSONANTS YAHWEH
Director of the 1969 film Women in Love KEN RUSSELL
First word of a rhyming phrase meaning very close family and friends NEAREST
A popular purple soft drink RIBENA
Official demonym for a resident of Indiana HOOSIER
TV presenter Fred Dibnah’s day job STEEPLEJACK
ALISTAIR MACLEAN WROTE THIS NOVEL AND FILM SCREENPLAY SIMULTANEOUSLY WHERE EAGLES DARE
Not a fish, but an angler’s lure DEVON MINNOW
The bishop’s domineering wife in Barchester Towers Mrs Proudie
Nickname for the state of Virginia OLD DOMINION
TYPE OF LYMPHOCYTE WHICH IS IMPORTANT IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM t-cell
TO PERSISTENTLY OCCUPY THE THOUGHTS OBSESS
CHRISTMAS, OR A CHRISTMAS CAROL NOEL
Colloquial name for gin mother's ruin
TV presenter who became the UK’s youngest ever newscaster in 1998 Katie Derham
Cumbrian port attacked by John Paul Jones in 1778 whitehaven
FORMER CELTIC AND MANCHESTER UNITED FOOTBALLER WHO WON 16 CAPS FOR SCOTLAND Pat Crerand
Bath’s famous Pulteney Bridge was designed by this architect Robert Adam
Author of the fictionalised autobiography known as the Sherston trilogy Siegfried Sassoon
THE RULES BY WHICH WORDS CAN BE USED TO FORM SENTENCES SYNTAX
Legislative body which is sometimes called a Senate UPPER HOUSE
WILLIAM BLAKE POEM SET TO MUSIC BY JOHN TAVENER THE LAMB
____ Gardens is home to the Kolkata Knight Riders EDEN
The Rembrandts perform the theme song of this US sitcom FRIENDS
CARTOON CATCHPHRASE INCLUDED IN THE NEW OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH WHEN IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1998 DOH
THE 1986 BRITISH GRAND PRIX WAS THE LAST HELD AT ____ BRANDS HATCH
The longest continuously-serving female MP in the House of Commons Harriet Harman
The liquid form of frost DEW
FORMER FRENCH STRONGHOLD IN WHAT IS NOW DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH Fort Duquesne
Tree seen in various Constable pictures, although the ash was his favourite ELM
Southern English county with no motorways DORSET
Of a payment, made with goods rather than money IN KIND
OF FRENCH ORIGIN, A WORD FOR A SAILOR MATELOT
A farmhouse in southern France MAS
____: A ROMANCE OF EXMOOR, BY R D BLACKMORE LORNA DOONE
One of Bolivia’s two capital cities LA PAZ
Rudyard Kipling novel based on the college he attended in Devon Stalky and Co
SOFT CHEESE ORIGINATING IN THE SEINE-ET-MARNE REGION BRIE
Dog which, in its “native” language, is called sotar rua IRISH SETTER
CITY SEPARATED FROM MORECAMBE BY THE RIVER LUNE LANCASTER
DAVID ____ MANAGED REAL SOCIEDAD FOR ALMOST A YEAR, AFTER TEN MONTHS AT MANCHESTER UNITED MOYES
Brezhnev’s predecessor KHRUSHCHEV
Advertising slogan for software using the iOS operating system There's an app for that
Subsidiary proposition proved for use in proving another proposition LEMMA
TV show originally presented by Jeremy Beadle You've Been Framed
Ridden by Nigel Hawke, winner of the 1991 Grand National SEAGRAM
Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws SPILLIKIN
Solicitor representing the Crown in the courts of probate and divorce Queen's Proctor
Haleakala National Park is on this Hawaiian island MAUI
Pesce ____ is Italian for “swordfish” SPADA
Marcel ____, author of the unfinished novel Jean Santeuil PROUST
Malta’s “Isle of Calypso” GOZO
TWELFTH MONTH OF THE JEWISH CIVIL YEAR ELUL