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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 10
The Times Specialist
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Mad Max: ____ was a 2015 reboot of the film franchise
FURY ROAD
'Merciful' — based on a Latin word meaning to soothe
LENIENT
Symbol which is also called “pound sign” in the US
HASHTAG
WESTERN
OCCIDENTAL
Author of the comic novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
ANITA LOOS
Short stanza which finishes some forms of verse
ENVOI
Bos grunniens is the domesticated form of this wild ox
YAK
AL HILLAH IN IRAQ IS BUILT ALONGSIDE THIS ANCIENT CITY
BABYLON
OIL RESERVOIR AT THE BOTTOM OF A CRANKCASE
SUMP
Leaked set of over thirteen million investment documents partly made public on November 5, 2017
The Paradise Papers
Main protagonist of The Hunger Games
KATNISS EVERDEEN
Olympic 10,000m gold medallist in 1996 and 2000
Haile Gebrselassie
A Tibetan spiritual leader
DALAI LAMA
GUARDIANS OF GOLDEN APPLES IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY
HESPERIDES
SIR CHARLES ____ DID NOT INVENT THE BRIDGE NAMED AFTER HIM
WHEATSTONE
PULP-FILLED TOOTH CAVITIES
root canals
SERIES OF THREE FILMS BASED ON THE SITCOM POLICE SQUAD!
The Naked Gun
The poems set to music in William Walton’s Facade were from a collection of the same name by Edith ____
SITWELL
Belgian driver who had four World Rally Championship wins in 2017
Thierry Neuville
TELEPHONE SYSTEM REQUIRING NO OPERATOR
subscriber trunk dialling
A BOWLER MAY APPROACH FROM THE RADCLIFFE ROAD END OF THIS CRICKET GROUND
TRENT BRIDGE
Co-presenter, since 2004, of Strictly Come Dancing
TESS DALY
'We’ll go to ____, / Where true love conquers' (Manhattan song lyrics)
YONKERS
Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice
MOLOCH
ACCORDING TO NEW SCIENTIST IN JULY THIS YEAR, THIS BONE IS PRESENT IN THE LEGS OF FROGS
PATELLA
The ____ Boy and The Mad Mother were two of Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads collection
IDIOT
The chapter before Wool and Water in Through the Looking Glass
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
INSURANCE COMPANY WHICH TRADED AS NORWICH UNION UNTIL 2009
aviva
ARCHAIC NAME FOR SINGLE-REED WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS
CLARIONETS
This author’s surname is one letter short of an example of his work
POE
PERTAINING TO THE BRAIN
CEREBRAL
From ____, hatred and malice […], Good Lord deliver us (Litany, 1662 Book of Common Prayer)
ENVY
Nickname of Lord of the Rings character Fredegar Bolger
FATTY
Nikolai ____ wrote Taras Bulba
GOGOL
BAD LANGUAGE IS SAID TO TURN THE ____
air blue
Sixteen nails
YARD
To surround on all sides
ENCLOSE
GERMAN WORD FOR A YEAR OF APPRENTICESHIP
lehrjahr
1957 British film noir starring Stanley Baker and Herbert Lom
HELL DRIVERS
Informally, a pound sterling
SOV
Supporters close to goalies
UPRIGHTS
Snakes, as a sub-order of reptiles
OPHIDIA
MYTHOLOGICAL SHIP WHICH SAILED FROM IOLCOS TO COLCHIS
ARGO
IN CLASSICAL GREEK ARCHITECTURE, A CONTINUOUS PEDESTAL SUPPORTING A SERIES OF COLUMNS
STYLOBATE
Not the sort of person to do clerical work!
LAYMAN
Northamptonshire village, home to the Force India team
SILVERSTONE
Actor who starred as police sergeant TJ Hooker
WILLIAM SHATNER
Some of Guy de ____’s short stories were set during the Franco-Prussian war
MAUPASSANT
Jack ____ wrote TV scripts for The Lovers, Bar Mitzvah Boy, and The Knowledge
ROSENTHAL
British actress who presented the first four Eurovision Song Contests hosted in the UK
Katie Boyle
TRADITIONAL HINDU SYSTEM OF MEDICINE
AYURVEDA
AN E FLAT OR B FLAT BASS IN A BRASS BAND
TUBA
Someone from Tyneside or, in Australia and New Zealand, a Scotsman
GEORDIE
'At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the ____'
WIT
Russian name for the capital of Moldova
KISHINEV
1896 collection of sixty-three poems, most of which have been set to music
A SHROPSHIRE LAD
THE MAIN PUBLIC SPACE OF THIS ITALIAN CITY IS THE PIAZZA DEL CAMPO
SIENA
Maori name for a humanoid sculpture
TIKI
Lou Reed’s 1972 double A-side single featured Walk on the Wild Side and ____
PERFECT DAY
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well-read