The Times Specialist 2017 09 24 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Seen from a distance	ESPIED
How easy-going people take things	AS THEY COME
STEERED A BOAT AWAY FROM THE SHORE	STOOD OFF
A common feature of airport terminals	TRAVELATOR
Former county town in Wales, where Henry VII was born	PEMBROKE
Description of various items of clothing, mostly for women	two-piece
A SOUND LIKE THAT OF A HONKING CAR HORN OR IN JEST, A 1A	PARP
A predictable way of life	RUT
IN AN INFERIOR BUT POPULAR WAY	CHEESILY
Born-again or happy-clappy	EVANGELICAL
A misleading mark on the wings of certain butterflies	EYESPOT
Nearby “watering hole” visited by 1A players, reputedly	LOCAL PUB
INFORMALLY, THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE USA	LBJ
Of music, lacking an established key	ATONAL
The large end of a 1A’s tubing	BELL
Prime minister in the British Labour Party’s first majority government	ATTLEE
A TYPE OF 1A 45, OR A FAIRLY SMALL CONTAINER FOR LIQUIDS	CUP
A HIGH CHEST OF DRAWERS, USUALLY IN TWO SECTIONS, ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER	TALLBOY
ENGLISH COMPOSER WHO PLAYED THE 1A PROFESSIONALLY TO SUPPORT HIMSELF WHILE STUDYING AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC	HOLST
“Hackney-coaches ____ the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and numbered by the wisdom of Parliament” (Dickens, in Sketches by Boz)	are part and parcel of
Bret ____ wrote stories about the California gold rush	HARTE
Dawn ____ was the first female swimmer to break the “magic minute” for 100m, in 1964	FRASER
The vessel on which a fleet’s commander is quartered	FLAGSHIP
Meredith Willson musical, filmed in 1962, with a signature song linking the number and theme of this puzzle	THE MUSIC MAN
“When you looked at the ____, Ireland and England seemed like lovers” (William Trevor)	MAP
SIX WORKS FOR ONE STRING PLAYER BY JS BACH, EACH WITH SIX MOVEMENTS	CELLO SUITES
Fruit used to make marmalade	BITTER ORANGE
THE ____ AND 1A ARE THE ONLY WIND INSTRUMENTS PLAYED BY MORE THAN ONE WINNER OF THE BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR CONTEST	CLARINET
____, a 1A player in Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra, later worked as an arranger, with Frank Sinatra and Linda Ronstadt among others	NELSON RIDDLE
VULGARITY	UNCOUTHNESS
A brass instrument, also the French word for “paperclip”	TROMBONE
In the 1954 movie The ____ Story, James Stewart appeared as the eponymous 1A player and band leader	GLENN MILLER
“____ lives after them” (Antony, in Julius Caesar)	THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
The ____, movie with dinosaurs, made 19 years before Jurassic Park	Land That Time Forgot
AN ORDINARY THING USED FOR ARTISTIC PURPOSES	OBJET TROUVE
WHAT SOME CHOCOLATES MUST LOGICALLY HAVE, THOUGH IT IS RARELY MENTIONED	hard centre
A justification, originating in US law, for the reproduction of copyright material	FAIR USE
A type of 1A 45, or a tool for clearing drain blockages	PLUNGER
RELEASED FROM A CONNECTION OR OBLIGATION	DISENGAGED
Equally wonderful	every bit as good
To supply with equipment	TOOL UP
SCOTTISH JAZZ 1A PLAYER WHO ALSO ACTED, APPEARING IN THE GOON SHOW AND SUPERMAN III	george Chisholm
Circular tent used by nomads in eastern and central Asia	YURT
Malarial fever, or a shivering fit	AGUE
AN IMITATION OF THE SOUND OF A FANFARE	ta-dah
The emblem of St James, son of Zebedee	SCALLOP SHELL
A SWORD USED IN FENCING	EPEE
Subject of the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan report	CIVIL SERVICE
A type of 1A 45, or a fast part of a racing circuit	STRAIGHT
A TYPE OF 1A 45, OR A FAIRLY LARGE CONTAINER FOR LIQUIDS	BUCKET
British explorer who, in 1909, reached a new furthest south latitude of 88 degrees and 23 minutes	Ernest Shackleton
FRUIT ALSO CALLED ALLIGATOR PEAR	AVOCADO
LAMPOONER	PARODIST
Device placed in or over a 1A’s 40 to change volume and/or sound quality	MUTE
AQUILINE FACIAL FEATURES	ROMAN NOSES
What 1A players can do better than their brass colleagues	GLISSANDOS
English composer who also played the 1A, rather less successfully than 30	ELGAR
A DISEASE OF FARM ANIMALS, CAUSING AN UNSTEADY GAIT	STAGGERS
Harry Potter and the Deathly ____, last novel in the series	HALLOWS
Someone very good at something	A DAB HAND