The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 08 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
THOSE WHO PLAY AN ANCIENT STRING INSTRUMENT WITH A BODY LIKE A SLICED PEAR LUTENISTS
FROZEN ENCRUSTATION ON A WINDOW Ice fern
PORTRAYER OF SAM MALONE IN CHEERS TED DANSON
CARRY ON STAR WHO PORTRAYED ARTHUR FALLOWFIELD IN BEYOND OUR KEN KENNETH WILLIAMS
EN ____ IS A WAY OF CAPTURING A PAWN IN CHESS PASSANT
QUEEN CONSORT OF RICHARD II Anne of Bohemia
FROM AN ITEM OF CLOTHING, AN OLD NAME FOR A WORKING-CLASS WOMAN SHAWLIE
Oxfordshire town where Blenheim Palace is situated WOODSTOCK
Living beyond the continental shelf in depths over 200 metres OCEANIC
Machines which merge sets of decks of punched cards COLLATORS
____ Gas is liquefied butane in a portable cylinder CALOR
EPONYMOUS STRAIGHT MAN OF BEYOND OUR KEN Kenneth Horne
ITALIAN STEW OF KNUCKLE OF VEAL COOKED IN TOMATO SAUCE OSSO BUCCO
DEPARTURES FROM CAPE CANAVERAL BLASTOFFS
____ PLAYED RALPH ERNEST GORSE IN THE CHARMER Nigel Havers
MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF THE CLEVELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FROM 1946 TO 1970 George Szell
BEYOND OUR KEN STAR WHO PLAYED RICKY LIVID Hugh Paddick
GENRE OF FRENCH PAINTING OF COURTLY FIGURES IN A RURAL SETTING ASSOCIATED WITH WATTEAU FETE GALANTE
STIFFENED, AS CORSETS AND BRAS MAY BE BONED
Gem State resident IDAHOAN
The English, according to Napoleon SHOPKEEPERS
A MUSICIAN PERFORMING WITHOUT PREPARATION SIGHTREADER
THIS FEUDAL KNIGHTLY VASSAL OF A BARON ALSO HAD HIS OWN VASSALS VAVASOUR
STRONG IMPULSE TO STEAL WITH NO APPARENT MOTIVATION KLEPTOMANIA
LOWER SAXONY PORT FROM WHICH THE FIRST REGULAR SHIPPING SERVICE BETWEEN CONTINENTAL EUROPE AND THE USA BEGAN IN 1847 BREMERHAVEN
DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH-WESTERN FRANCE WITH A SIZEABLE BRITISH COMMUNITY DORDOGNE
Bird with a conspicuous chestnut-coloured tail REDSTART
Large container for shopping TOTE BAG
Mexican hat with a wide brim SOMBRERO
Norbert ____ of Manchester United was in England’s 1966 World Cup team STILES
Political editor for BBC News since June 2015 Laura Kuenssberg
Reverend Ndabaningi ____ founded Zanu in 1963 SITHOLE
She portrayed Fanny Haddock in Beyond Our Ken Betty Marsden
Tenor aria from Turandot, used as the theme song for the BBC’s 1990 World Cup coverage NESSUN DORMA
These may be stone, iron or stony-iron MOTMOTS
Thick dairy product with a high fat content DOUBLE CREAM
Walden; or, Life in the Woods was the original title of Henry David ____’s best-known book THOREAU
Well-reasoned estimate based on available information EDUCATED GUESS
____ Loos wrote Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1925 ANITA
Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s nickname SATCHMO
James Joyce’s prose work about Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker FINNEGANS WAKE
Gyorgy ____, Hungarian-born composer whose music was used in 2001: A Space Odyssey LIGETI
“Set meals”, as we might call them TV DINNERS
A Jamaican street gang in the USA POSSE
A version of baccarat in which the role of banker moves between players CHEMIN DE FER
Albert and Harold of Oil Drum Lane STEPTOE AND SON
An Iranian Shi’ite religious leader AYATOLLAH
Beyond Our Ken star who later played ARP Warden Hodges in Dad’s Army Bill Pertwee
Bramblings, linnets and siskins, eg FINCHES
Christian rite acknowledging one’s faith and full participation in the church CONFIRMATION
Craftsman from the Guarneri, Amati or Stradivari families Violin-maker
First line of romantic verse ending “And so are you” ROSES ARE RED
French department in the north of the Pays de la Loire region sarthe
Geddington in Northamptonshire has the best preserved ____, a memorial to Edward I’s first wife ELEANOR CROSS
Grade II-listed building in Birmingham’s Bull Ring, completed in 1965 ROTUNDA
Informally, a member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing SHAKER