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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 10 15
The Times Specialist
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SPIKE OF SMALL FLOWERS ON TREES AND SHRUBS SUCH AS WILLOW
CATKIN
IN BOTANY, SPLIT INTO THREE PARTS
TRIFID
THE DRAMATIC ____ RELATE TO ACTION, TIME AND PLACE
UNITIES
Small portable organs
REGALS
GARDEN PLANTS WITH BRIGHT RED, ORANGE OR YELLOW FLOWERS AND EDIBLE LEAVES
NASTURTIUMS
BELLINI OPERA BASED ON THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
I PURITANI
LATIN PHRASE INDICATING THAT SOMETHING IS THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF AN ACTION
IPSO FACTO
HYPNOTIC, TRANQUILLISING DRUG TAKEN FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOMNIA
NITRAZEPAM
ARKWRIGHT AND GRANVILLE SITCOM
OPEN ALL HOURS
DISTANCE CALCULATOR
RANGEFINDER
A FEELING OF HORROR OR REVULSION
CREEPS
PUBLIC TRANSPORT ROUTE FROM STANMORE TO STRATFORD
Jubilee Line
THE PRIVATISATION OF THE BUS INDUSTRY FOLLOWING THE 1985 TRANSPORT ACT
DEREGULATION
IN SHOWJUMPING, A FENCE MADE OF ROUGH BRANCHES
RUSTIC
LILIACEOUS PLANT, OR ITS JUICE USED IN SKIN AND HAIR PREPARATIONS
ALOE VERA
WRITER OF CONTEMPTIBLE VERSE
POETASTER
CRACKLING ON A VINYL RECORD
STATIC
INFORMALLY, PARTS OF THE HUMAN HEART
COCKLES
Former Parisian palace designed for Catherine of Medici and burnt down in 1871
TUILERIES
German art song — usually for solo voice with piano
LIED
Home of Nigeria’s oldest university, and capital of the state of Oyo
IBADAN
London metropolitan borough which became part of Tower Hamlets in 1965
POPLAR
Mozart opera in which Pamina and Papageno appear
THE MAGIC FLUTE
Music-hall entertainer Harry ____ wrote and sang Roamin' in the Gloamin'
LAUDER
'Tinopolis' in South Wales, home of the Scarlets rugby union team
LLANELLI
The ____ Times or 'Pink ’Un' was founded in 1888
FINANCIAL
The capital of Croatia
ZAGREB
Stricken with reverential fear
AWED
Spanish port on the Bay of Biscay, where a film festival has been held since 1953
SAN SEBASTIAN
The Crewe ____ were featured in Gridiron UK, a film about American football
RAILROADERS
River in Guyana, or a type of brown sugar
DEMERARA
Pants and knickers
UNDIES
Official South African governmental policy of racial segregation, renounced in 1992
APARTHEID
Name first used for François Leclerc du Tremblay, Richelieu’s right-hand man
EMINENCE GRISE
The principal presenter of Today from 1958 to 1970
Jack de Manio
Cocktails with vodka, coffee liqueur and cream or milk
WHITE RUSSIANS
A name for some shrikes
BUTCHERBIRD
England’s World Cup-winning manager
Sir Alf Ramsey
AN ETONIAN OARSMAN, RATHER THAN A CRICKETER
WET BOB
Millwall’s football ground in Cold Blow Lane from 1910 to 1993
The Den
Magnus Magnusson's Mastermind catchphrase
I've started so I'll finish
John Timpson’s co-presenter on Today from 1975 to 1986
Brian Redhead
In which Ventôse, Germinal and Thermidor appeared
Revolutionary calendar
A YOUNG ITALIAN MAN
SIGNORINO
Soviet president who introduced glasnost and perestroika
GORBACHEV
Capital of France’s Eure department, whose name comes from the Gallic Eburovices tribe
EVREUX
Director of Rosemary’s Baby in 1968 and Chinatown in 1974
ROMAN POLANSKI
Eponymous outlaw in a Walter Scott novel
ROB ROY
FORMALLY INSTALL IN OFFICE
INDUCT
ANDREA NEWMANS NOVEL ____ OF BARBED WIRE WAS ADAPTED FOR A 1976 ITV DRAMA SERIES STARRING FRANK FINLAY
BOUQUET
THE DECISIVE 1942 SECOND BATTLE OF ____ WAS THE WATERSHED OF THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN
EL ALAMEIN
ARMENIAN COMPOSER OF THE BALLETS GAYANE AND SPARTACUS
KHACHATURIAN
OLD ENGLISH EPIC IN WHICH THE DRAGON GRENDEL IS MORTALLY WOUNDED
BEOWULF
THE KING IS PERSUADED TO MARRY REIGNIER'S DAUGHTER ____, AT THE END OF HENRY VI PART 1
MARGARET
IMPOSE BELIEFS UPON
Force-feed
THE EVICTION OF TENANTS FROM LARGE SCOTTISH ESTATES IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY
CLEARANCES