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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 11 19
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
Ancient Greek warship with three tiers of oars
TRIREME
The ____ is the longest river in Europe
VOLGA
Division of General Motors which closed in 2010
PONTIAC
The Great ____ of 1952 killed many Londoners
SMOG
Element first made and used in the Second World War
PLUTONIUM
Forerunner of the sextant
ASTROLABE
A gourd, or a tobacco pipe made from its shell
CALABASH
City where many demonstrations in the 2005 Cedar Revolution took place
BEIRUT
The seed of Pisum sativum
PEA
IN THE DISTANT PAST
YEARS AGO
Multinational retail chain founded in the Netherlands in 1932
SPAR
CINEMA AWARD WHICH, IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, IS A COLLOQUIAL WORD FOR MONEY
OSCAR
The Great ____ is a headland northeast of Llandudno
ORME
LONGEST SIDE OF A RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLE
HYPOTENUSE
“____; the centre cannot hold” (WB Yeats)
THINGS FALL APART
“What’s gone and what’s past help / Should be past ____” (The Winter’s Tale)
GRIEF
19th-century mechanical musical instrument intended to sound like a complete orchestra
panharmonicon
A cricket pitch is ____ yards long
twenty-two
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark single which followed Souvenir
JOAN OF ARC
Radio comedian of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s
Ted Ray
US vice-president succeeded by George Bush in 1981
WALTER MONDALE
The ____ are America’s most successful vocal group to date
SUPREMES
1857 volume of poems by Charles Baudelaire
LES FLEURS DU MAL
Cornelius “____” Warmerdam held the pole vault world record from 1940 to 1957
DUTCH
FORMERLY, A DRINK LIKE BEER PRODUCED WITHOUT HOPS
ALE
Former Liberal Democrat leader who succeeded Charles Kennedy
Menzies Campbell
Corporate leader who reports to the board of directors (abbreviation)
CEO
Deceitful sorcerer of The Faerie Queene
ARCHIMAGO
Lars ____ is Denmark’s prime minister
RASMUSSEN
Former Radio 4 presenter of Woman’s Hour and Today
Sue MacGregor
In biological taxonomy, an alternative to “vascular plant”
TRACHEOPHYTE
Rock outcrops smoothed by glaciation
ROCHES MOUTONNEES
The buck stopped at her husband’s desk
BESS TRUMAN
PRIMORDIAL CELLS FROM WHICH A BODY PART DEVELOPS
BLASTEMA
Pertaining to the calculation of insurance risks and premiums
ACTUARIAL
German phrase meaning “yes indeed”
ja wohl
A place name
TOPONYM
Chewy sweetmeat containing nuts and cherries
NOUGAT
A nitrogenous basic compound found in plants, such as morphine or nicotine
ALKALOID
Washington ____ wrote Rip Van Winkle
IRVING
OF A LEGAL PROCEEDING, CARRIED OUT WITHOUT A JUDGE, PROPER VENUE OR JURISDICTION
coram non judice
PRIME MINISTER OF ZIMBABWE FROM 2009 TO 2013
Morgan Tsvangirai
Most notable landmark of Paris, to a Parisian
La Tour Eiffel
River which forms part of the border between the US and Mexico
RIO GRANDE
Piano made in New York or Hamburg
STEINWAY
SYMBOL USED TO INDICATE A RATIO IN MATHEMATICS
COLON
Nato alphabet member between a weight and a boy’s name
LIMA
Spiny cactus of the southwest US and northern Mexico
CHOLLA
Creator deity of Incan mythology
VIRACOCHA
Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio ____ was first to note “canals” on the surface of Mars
SCHIAPARELLI
Radio 1’s first female presenter
Annie Nightingale
A PUB WHICH, HYPHENATED, MIGHT BE REGARDED AS NUTRITIONALLY HEALTHY
LOCAL
Ancient Roman ceremony which followed the census; a period of five years
LUSTRUM
Around 1900, the cheapest ship accommodation
STEERAGE
Psychoactive drug made from the bark of African trees, used in some countries to combat drug and alcohol addiction
IBOGAINE
Milton poem originally published with Samson Agonistes
Paradise Regained
The beard of barley
AWN
Bedfordshire house used as a location in Never Say Never Again and The World Is Not Enough
LUTON HOO
Ballad set to the tune of Londonderry Air
DANNY BOY
Colour of shirt and shorts in Chelsea’s home strip
ROYAL BLUE