The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 09 24

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