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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 10 08
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
AREA OF CENTRAL ASIA TO THE EAST OF THE CASPIAN SEA
TURKESTAN
IN AMERICA, ANY FIZZY SOFT DRINK
SODA
Cumbrian river which enters the Irish Sea at Workington
DERWENT
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF CAMBODIA
KHMER
Release eggs
OVULATE
Clergyman ranked below priest
DEACON
Anglicised name for Mongolia’s capital
ULAN BATOR
Father McKenzie is also named in this Beatles song
ELEANOR RIGBY
A DECORATIVE FRILL AROUND THE NECK, ALSO A VARIETY OF SANDPIPER
RUFF
This instrument of Austria and Switzerland inspired a theme in the finale of Brahms’s first symphony
ALPENHORN
TRURO, CHATHAM, AND BARNSTABLE ARE ON THIS PENINSULA
CAPE COD
DEVOTIONAL NAME FOR COMMUNION BREAD AND WINE
blessed sacrament
STRONG TISSUE CONNECTING BONES
LIGAMENT
Punk band featuring guitarist (formerly bassist) Captain Sensible
THE DAMNED
RIVER WHICH FORMS PART OF THE BORDER BETWEEN GERMANY AND POLAND
ODER
BBC comedy show famous for its “going out for an English” sketch
Goodness Gracious Me
ACTRESS WHO GAINED FAME AS A MEDIUM IN BLITHE SPIRIT
Margaret Rutherford
Small marsupial made popular in a game, originally for the Sony PlayStation
BANDICOOT
CONIC SECTION WITH TWO FOCAL POINTS
ELLIPSE
URCHIN
RAGAMUFFIN
Silky cloth with raised design
BROCADE
1978 JOHN IRVING NOVEL, LATER A FILM STARRING ROBIN WILLIAMS
The World According To Garp
SITE OF A NOTORIOUS MASSACRE OF CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO NATIVES IN 1864
SAND CREEK
EUROPEAN EXPLORER WHO DISCOVERED NEW ZEALAND
ABEL TASMAN
COMPANY FOR WHOSE FROZEN PEAS ADVERT PATSY KENSIT MADE A POPPING SOUND
BIRDS EYE
2007 WAR DRAMA STARRING JAMES MCAVOY AND KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, ADAPTED FROM AN IAN MCEWAN NOVEL
ATONEMENT
WORDSWORTH POEM POPULARLY KNOWN AS DAFFODILS
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
100 cents in South Africa
RAND
CONNECTION USED TO ATTACH A HOSE TO A WATER MAIN
HYDRANT
THE ____ IS BASED ON MEMOIRS OF GOVERNESS ANNA LEONOWENS
KING AND I
A Roman greeting or a soothing ointment
SALVE
Simon and Garfunkel song which starts with boarding a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh
AMERICA
PHYLUM OF SEGMENTED WORMS
ANNELIDA
Water-borne sheet detached from an ice field
FLOE
Pauley Perrette plays gothic forensic scientist ____ Sciuto in NCIS
ABBY
A former insurance clerk who won 1984 Olympic skating gold with a former policeman
JAYNE TORVILL
Owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire
HESTON BLUMENTHAL
Of a payment, made with no acceptance of liability
EX GRATIA
LARGEST LIVING LIZARD SPECIES
KOMODO DRAGON
GOURD FRUIT WITH A STRIPED SKIN
Ogen melon
VARIETY OF WINTER-RIPENING PEAR
NELIS
Popular music pianist born Trevor Stanford
Russ Conway
THE OPPOSITE OF ZENITH
NADIR
'And, like the baseless ____ of this vision / The cloud-capped towers …' (The Tempest)
FABRIC
ANOTHER NAME FOR AN ARTIST OR ILLUSTRATOR
iconographer
“With maximum effort”, referring to old technology
FULL STEAM AHEAD
Henchman of Auric Goldfinger
ODDJOB
To sing while rapidly switching from natural to falsetto
YODEL
To stop a sailing vessel’s progress
HEAVE TO
Main antagonist of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy
STEERPIKE
STATE CAPITAL OF MAINE
AUGUSTA
“At the present moment, the whole ____’s lit up. When I say ‘lit up’ I mean lit up by fairy lamps” (Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Woodrooffe, in a notorious radio broadcast)
FLEET
ACTRESS WHO PLAYED NEFER IN THE EGYPTIAN
Bella Darvi
TERRAIN OF MIXED WOODLAND AND PASTURE, SOME OF WHICH SLOWED THE PROGRESS OF ALLIED FORCES IN OPERATION OVERLORD
BOCAGE
Capital of Australia's Victoria state
MELBOURNE
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s 1960s TV show
NOT ONLY BUT ALSO
An abbreviated word form such as photo or telly
APOCOPE
US GOLFER WHO HIT THE HONORARY STARTING TEE SHOT OF THE US MASTERS FROM 1984 TO 2002
SAM SNEAD