The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
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
“I wanted your ____ verges / But you gave me the hard shoulder” (Adrian Maurice Henri) SOFT
Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel or Tara King AVENGER
Inhabitants of Timisoara, Ploiesti or Iasi, for example ROMANIANS
Rev W Awdry’s tank engine THOMAS
CAPITAL OF DOMINICA ROSEAU
Phil Redmond’s soap-opera set in Chester HOLLYOAKS
____ lynx is another name for a caracal DESERT
Famously armless statue of Aphrodite in the Louvre VENUS DE MILO
____ recorded Elgar’s Violin Concerto when aged 16 in 1932 YEHUDI MENUHIN
Paracetamol, eg, in plain packaging with no branding GENERIC DRUG
Russian revolutionary, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879 LEON TROTSKY
2017 WINNER OF THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF Sophie Faldo
Dingwall was its county town ross and cromarty
Joseph’s younger son who received the principal blessing of his grandfather Jacob EPHRAIM
TREE-DWELLING NOCTURNAL MADAGASCAN LEMUR WITH LONG THIN FINGERS aye-aye
Traitors were hurled from the ____ rock on Rome’s Capitoline Hill TARPEIAN
Offenbach’s “Underworld” hero ORPHEUS
Top of the Lake star, ____ Moss ELISABETH
Pact between the Vatican and a secular government CONCORDAT
____ REID, CO-PRESENTER OF GOOD MORNING BRITAIN SINCE 2014 SUSANNA
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
US musical and comedy star associated with the song There’s No Business Like Show Business ETHEL MERMAN
BBC rugby league commentator remembered for his “early bath” and “up and under” catchphrases Eddie Waring
Assigned delivery periods TIME SLOTS
Compiler of the Younger 49D Snorri Sturluson
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
Ellis Bell EMILY BRONTE
A male hawk TIERCEL
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
____ HUSAIN, RADIO 4 TODAY PRESENTER SINCE 2013 MISHAL
MONETARY UNIT OF THAILAND, ONE HUNDREDTH OF A BAHT SATANG
COMPOSER OF RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI RACHMANINOV
THE THAMES TUNNEL, NOW USED BY THE EAST LONDON LINE, CONNECTS ____ AND WAPPING ROTHERHITHE
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
Rumpy or stumpy MANX CAT
Where movies are edited Cutting room
The heavens streaked with long parallel white masses of cloud MACKEREL SKY
Either of two medieval Icelandic anthologies EDDA
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
EAST LONDON LOCATION OF A FORD FACTORY SINCE 1931 DAGENHAM
Weir of ____, Robert Louis Stevenson novel set in southern Scotland HERMISTON
Sports presenter who succeeded Richard Whiteley as host of Countdown in 2005 DES LYNAM
Poultry in Australia CHOOKS
Wartime farm workers LAND GIRLS
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
British silver coins withdrawn from circulation in 1993 FLORINS
____politik, German power politics MACHT