The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 09 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
An abbot’s deputy PRIOR
SPOKEN OR PERFORMED WITHOUT PREPARATION EXTEMPORE
Surname shared by a British novelist and a British middle distance runner COE
Putative author of the Iliad and the Odyssey HOMER
1972 Lou Reed song and notable charity single of 1997 PERFECT DAY
Domesticated Indian ox with dark colouring except for white “stockings” GAYAL
Taken from a TV series, something bigger inside than it appears from outside TARDIS
1996 FILM STARRING ROBERT REDFORD AND MICHELLE PFEIFFER Up Close And Personal
IN GREEK MYTH, THE SON OF CLYTEMNESTRA AND AGAMEMNON ORESTES
Four-time world heavyweight champion who retired in 2014 Evander Holyfield
City in Zhejiang province, one of China’s first treaty ports NINGBO
MANUFACTURER OF THE M9 PISTOL, USED BY THE US MILITARY BERETTA
Violinist who represented Thailand at the 2014 Winter Olympics Vanessa-Mae
A diplomatic move or initiative, from a French word now meaning “gait” DEMARCHE
Dire Straits single of 1982 Private Investigations
Also called Elissa, queen and founder of Carthage DIDO
John Lennon’s best-selling single as a solo artist IMAGINE
Red resin secreted by insects, used in dyes and varnishes LAC
H Rider Haggard novel, subtitled A History of Adventure SHE
US academic regarded as the “father of pragmatism” Charles Peirce
EARLY 20TH-CENTURY DETECTIVE IN A SERIES OF TEN NOVELS BY CLIVE CUSSLER Isaac Bell
Principal city of the Otago region, home of New Zealand’s oldest university DUNEDIN
MOTHER-OF-PEARL NACRE
Southern African antelope with spiral horns NYALA
Another name for kelp, or for sea lettuce OYSTER GRASS
Illustrator of the Horrid Henry series of children’s books Tony Ross
A trading name used by ExxonMobil ESSO
OF A HAWK, TO TURN IN FLIGHT, ESPECIALLY TO RETRY A FAILED STOOP CANCELEER
SINGER WHOSE DEBUT ALBUM ROCKFERRY WAS RELEASED IN 2008 DUFFY
“Picture you upon my knee, / Just ____ …” (1920s lyrics) TEA FOR TWO
In the Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games, “a more up-market but less intelligent version of Twenty-One” BACCARAT
Historical mountainous region of Anatolia, Turkey GALATIA
____ STANLEY, FEMALE ROMANTIC LEAD IN PIRATES OF PENZANCE MABEL
Author who said “Punctuality is the virtue of the bored” EVELYN WAUGH
Greek “thanksgiving”, another name for Holy Communion EUCHARIST
The Welsh language’s name for itself cymraeg
Loss of one’s sense of smell ANOSMIA
DISTINCT FORMS OF SPECIES WHICH HAVE ADAPTED TO THEIR OWN ENVIRONMENTS ECOTYPES
Technology company popularly known as Big Blue IBM
Eric ____ wrote the children’s novel The Wind on the Moon LINKLATER
____ Wood played Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings films ELIJAH
MS CICCONE, AND A 1960S NICKNAME OF JOAN BAEZ MADONNA
A pen name of Karen Blixen ISAK DINESEN
King who solved the riddle of the Sphinx OEDIPUS
Stephen King’s first published novel CARRIE
ITZHAK AVRAHAM BEN ZEEV, AUTHOR OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL MAUS Art Spiegelman
ROCK BAND WHOSE 1975 SINGLE WALK THIS WAY WAS COVERED BY RUN-DMC IN 1986 AEROSMITH
A collection of 28 short essays by Maya Angelou LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER
Peaky Blinders actor who played Locke in Game of Thrones Noah Taylor
A SINGLE-CELLED MICROORGANISM, OR A SINGLE UNIT MONAD
Sea area on whose coast Aberystwyth lies CARDIGAN BAY
DESPITE THE TITLE, FIVE OF THE STORIES IN THIS ISAAC ASIMOV COLLECTION ARE ABOUT THE MULTIVAC COMPUTER ROBOT DREAMS
The Sheik of ____ was a 1921 jazz standard ARABY
The ____, a nickname for the British Expeditionary Force, based on a description attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm II OLD CONTEMPTIBLES
A FIRM SUPPLYING COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TELCO
The only county in Ireland’s Connacht province that shares a border with the UK LEITRIM
German footballer who joined Chicago Fire from Manchester United in 2017 Bastian Schweinsteiger
Third iteration of a handheld gaming device, rival of Sony’s PSP Nintendo DSi
Baritone who starred in eight films with Jeanette MacDonald in the 1930s and 1940s NELSON EDDY
BURLESQUE STAR, FAMOUS FOR AN OSTRICH FEATHER FAN DANCE SALLY RAND