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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 17
The Times Specialist
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REGALIA INCLUDING 23,578 GEMSTONES
CROWN JEWELS
AFRICAN REPUBLIC WHICH UNDERWENT CIVIL WAR FROM 1992 TO 2002
SIERRA LEONE
TEMPORARY PLACES TO SLEEP, COLLOQUIALLY
CRASH PADS
Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel or Tara King
AVENGER
Rev W Awdry’s tank engine
THOMAS
Joseph’s younger son who received the principal blessing of his grandfather Jacob
EPHRAIM
CAPITAL OF DOMINICA
ROSEAU
Inhabitants of Timisoara, Ploiesti or Iasi, for example
ROMANIANS
“I wanted your ____ verges / But you gave me the hard shoulder” (Adrian Maurice Henri)
SOFT
TREE-DWELLING NOCTURNAL MADAGASCAN LEMUR WITH LONG THIN FINGERS
aye-aye
Traitors were hurled from the ____ rock on Rome’s Capitoline Hill
TARPEIAN
COMPOSER OF RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI
RACHMANINOV
REDRAW ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES SO AS TO GIVE ONE PARTY AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
GERRYMANDER
A METHOD BY WHICH A GAMBLER HOPES TO GAIN AN ADVANTAGE OVER THE HOUSE
SYSTEM
____ HUSAIN, RADIO 4 TODAY PRESENTER SINCE 2013
MISHAL
Ellis Bell
EMILY BRONTE
A male hawk
TIERCEL
Food which supposedly arouses one’s sexual appetite
APHRODISIAC
“What we call ‘morals’ is simply blind ____ to words of command” (Havelock Ellis)
OBEDIENCE
Female runner who had a 100% record until she was defeated by Hippomenes
ATALANTA
____politik, German power politics
MACHT
MONETARY UNIT OF THAILAND, ONE HUNDREDTH OF A BAHT
SATANG
British silver coins withdrawn from circulation in 1993
FLORINS
Phil Redmond’s soap-opera set in Chester
HOLLYOAKS
____ lynx is another name for a caracal
DESERT
____ recorded Elgar’s Violin Concerto when aged 16 in 1932
YEHUDI MENUHIN
2017 WINNER OF THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF
Sophie Faldo
Russian revolutionary, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879
LEON TROTSKY
Dingwall was its county town
ross and cromarty
Famously armless statue of Aphrodite in the Louvre
VENUS DE MILO
Paracetamol, eg, in plain packaging with no branding
GENERIC DRUG
Wartime farm workers
LAND GIRLS
Tail-ender sent in to bat when a wicket falls close to the end of a day’s play
NIGHTWATCHMAN
Common British butterflies — or Soviet officers?
RED ADMIRALS
Poultry in Australia
CHOOKS
Sports presenter who succeeded Richard Whiteley as host of Countdown in 2005
DES LYNAM
Rumpy or stumpy
MANX CAT
Weir of ____, Robert Louis Stevenson novel set in southern Scotland
HERMISTON
Offenbach’s “Underworld” hero
ORPHEUS
Top of the Lake star, ____ Moss
ELISABETH
Compiler of the Younger 49D
Snorri Sturluson
Pact between the Vatican and a secular government
CONCORDAT
____ REID, CO-PRESENTER OF GOOD MORNING BRITAIN SINCE 2014
SUSANNA
Assigned delivery periods
TIME SLOTS
The composer with the most pages in Nicholas Slonimsky’s Lexicon of Musical Invective
WAGNER
Its states include Haryana, Manipur and Tripura
INDIA
A deed held by a third party, which takes effect when a specified condition is fulfilled
ESCROW
BBC rugby league commentator remembered for his “early bath” and “up and under” catchphrases
Eddie Waring
US musical and comedy star associated with the song There’s No Business Like Show Business
ETHEL MERMAN
The heavens streaked with long parallel white masses of cloud
MACKEREL SKY
MS CICCONE WHOSE LIKE A PRAYER ALBUM WAS RELEASED IN 1989
MADONNA
A PLAYER OF THIS INSTRUMENT MAY PRESS BUTTONS OR KEYS LIKE THOSE OF A PIANO
ACCORDION
D H Lawrence’s closely autobiographical novel about the Morel family
SONS AND LOVERS
Oxford University student from USA, Germany or the British Commonwealth
RHODES SCHOLAR
EAST LONDON LOCATION OF A FORD FACTORY SINCE 1931
DAGENHAM
Either of two medieval Icelandic anthologies
EDDA
Where movies are edited
Cutting room
THE THAMES TUNNEL, NOW USED BY THE EAST LONDON LINE, CONNECTS ____ AND WAPPING
ROTHERHITHE