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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 10 01
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BILLY ____ IS THE STAGE NAME OF SINGER WILLIAM BROAD
IDOL
One of only two US states not divided into counties
ALASKA
Deep Blue beat this game’s world champion in 1997
CHESS
Casino card game based on red and black diamonds
rouge-et-noir
The Winter’s Tale’s “snapper-up of unconsidered trifles”
AUTOLYCUS
THE QUEEN CELEBRATED HER 91ST BIRTHDAY AT ____ RACECOURSE
NEWBURY
Political satire novel originally subtitled A Fairy Story
ANIMAL FARM
THE H OF HRT
HORMONE
An alarm signal, often sounded on a bell
TOCSIN
A LOCATION, SOMETIMES NOTIONAL, FOR A SPORTING OFFENDER
SIN BIN
THE 1942-3 ____ CAMPAIGN WAS NAMED AFTER THE LARGEST OF THE INDEPENDENT SOLOMON ISLANDS
GUADALCANAL
Graphical symbol often loosely referred to as a smiley
EMOTICON
Musical comedy drama series set in William McKinley High School
GLEE
Self-declared king of Israel, killed at the wood of Ephraim
ABSALOM
___ IS DESCRIBED AS THE OLDEST CITY IN THE NETHERLANDS
NIJMEGEN
The German customs union founded in 1834
ZOLLVEREIN
Elias ____’s collection of rarities formed the basis of an Oxford museum
ASHMOLE
PSEUDONYM OF LOUIS MARIE-JULIEN VIAUD, AN AUTHOR OF EXOTIC NOVELS BASED ON HIS LIFE AS A NAVAL OFFICER
Pierre Loti
A JILL OR GILL, OR A HOB
FERRET
Nascar, drag and dirt racing venue in Concord, North Carolina
Charlotte Motor Speedway
The “Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie” of Karl Marx
DAS KAPITAL
Measure of energy available for mechanical use
ENTROPY
Alternative to “emersion” as the reappearance of a celestial body following an eclipse
EGRESS
PERSONIFICATION, GIVEN THE NAME ARTEMIS, OF LIBERTY IN ANCIENT GREECE
ELEUTHERIA
AN ORTHODOX SCHOOL OF HINDUISM, WHICH SEES THE UNIVERSE AS CONSISTING OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MATTER
SANKHYA
Shakespeare character whose final line is “Now go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrew”
HORTENSIO
Exercise equipment used for several disciplines
MULTIGYM
1966 SINGLE BY MARVIN GAYE AND KIM WESTON
IT TAKES TWO
Substance used for cleaning leather
SADDLE SOAP
The tower of a church
STEEPLE
The traditional head-dress of a bishop
MITRE
GULFWEED, OR A FLOATING MASS OF IT
SARGASSO
Christians who do not celebrate Christmas or Easter
Jehovah's Witnesses
Poet who wrote How Do I Love Thee?
elizabeth Browning
Hyundai model known in some countries as Verna and Solaris
ACCENT
Folklore figure played by Kate Moss in Blackadder: Back & Forth
MAID MARIAN
Type of light which flashes on and off very quickly
STROBE
POUCH USED FOR SENDING OF DOCUMENTS OVERSEAS, FREE FROM CUSTOMS INSPECTION
DIPLOMATIC BAG
Actress who hosted the religious programme Praise Be!
THORA HIRD
Singer and actress who gained fame as mechanic Charlene Robinson
KYLIE MINOGUE
South African vultures
AASVOGELS
THOSE WHO WERE IN FAVOUR OF THE END OF SLAVERY
ABOLITIONISTS
FABRIC MADE WITH WASTE SILK
SCHAPPE
ANY OF VARIOUS PROPHESYING WOMEN OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
SIBYL
The national anthem of this island republic is La Bayamesa
CUBA
NATION WITH TERRITORY IN BOTH ASIA AND EUROPE
TURKEY
Harry Potter’s aunt and uncle live in Little Whinging in this English county
SURREY
Strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide
LYE
The first US secretary of state chosen by Donald Trump
Rex Tillerson
Strong demands for action
clarion calls
“Mankind are an ____ race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong […] are worse than indifferent to them” (William Hazlitt)
INCORRIGIBLE
A direction-finding instrument
COMPASS
RETIRED PROFESSORS WHO RETAIN THEIR TITLES
EMERITI
SHORT NAME FOR A WILD OR HALF-TAMED HORSE
BRONC
Fritz ____’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, first published in German in 1914, is now in its seventh edition
ULLMANN
The killing of a god
DEICIDE
TOOL TYPICALLY USED TO CREATE A SMALL HOLE FOR A NAIL OR SCREW
AWL
THAT BEING THE CASE
IF SO
FORMER NAME OF THE CITY REGARDED AS THE CULTURAL CAPITAL OF KARNATAKA, INDIA
MYSORE
2007 FILM BASED ON A 1998 NOVEL BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
Love in the Time of Cholera