The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 10 01

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