The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 10 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
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