The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 01 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A PLACE OF RETIREMENT FOR WOMEN WHO WISH FOR LEISURE TO MEDITATE UPON THE VICE OF IDLENESS CONVENT
EXTRAVAGANT OTT
A SHACKLE FOR THE FREE HABIT
THE RIVER LUCY HONEYCHURCH WANTED TO SEE FROM HER ROOM AT THE PENSION BERTOLINI ARNO
(LATIN) WHAT GOOD WOULD THAT DO ME? CUI BONO
A TALL VEGETABLE INTENDED BY NATURE TO SERVE AS A PENAL APPARATUS TREE
TO ____ THE WASH IS TO BE REVEALED AT LAST OR TURN OUT WELL COME OUT IN
UNABLE TO LEAVE RESIDENT
A WOMAN WITH A FINE PROSPECT OF HAPPINESS BEHIND HER BRIDE
LONG-HAIRED TOY DOG BREED shih-tzu
The patriotic art of lying for one’s country DIPLOMACY
HOWARD ____ WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO REFEREE THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND WORLD CUP FINALS IN THE SAME YEAR WEBB
THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT ____ IS THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO KINABALU
LIVID flying off the handle
Unbleached linen or its colour ECRU
1967 FILM ABOUT PARTNERS IN CRIME BONNIE AND CLYDE
A PERSON WHO TALKS WHEN YOU WISH HIM TO LISTEN BORE
DESIRE AND EXPECTATION ROLLED INTO ONE HOPE
WITH AFFECTION FOR THE PAST NOSTALGIC
The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue AUCTIONEER
BELONGING TO ME IF I CAN HOLD IT OR SEIZE IT MINE
SOMETHING USED TO ENHANCE THE FIT OR COMFORT OF A SHOE INNER SOLE
GOOGLE ____ IS A VIDEO CHAT MOBILE APP DUO
A COMMUNICATIONS INNOVATION FIRST USED IN THE UK IN NORWICH (1959) AND CROYDON POSTAL CODE
ABOUT FOUR MONTHS PREGNANT MIDTERM
TO DINE OVEREAT
AREA OF LAND WITH MULTIPLE BUILDINGS BUILT FOR THE SAME PURPOSE ESTATE
Girl from the ____ is a Bob Dylan song influenced by Scarborough Fair NORTH COUNTRY
Jeanne Moreau and Paulette Goddard have played Célestine in film versions of this 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau Diary Of A Chambermaid
____ WAS A 2001-4 RADIO 4 SITCOM ABOUT A HORMONAL WIFE THE CHANGE
DRAWING ATTENTION TO SOMETHING TO GAIN ADVANTAGE making play of
SOMETHING SERIAL USED BY BACH, BEETHOVEN AND BRAHMS, BUT NOT SATIE, SCARLATTI AND SIBELIUS chronological order
COOKER COMPONENT IN BLACK, WHITE AND RED CERAMIC HOB
Edson Arantes do Nascimento PELE
Distance(s) most often used in connection with golf and American football YARDAGE
JAMES ____ WAS PRIMARY EDITOR OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY FROM 1879 TO 1915 MURRAY
Today, in Germany SONNTAG
Clues in italics are from this 1911 book by American satirist Ambrose Bierce the Devil's Dictionary
Device for retarding a vehicle’s motion drag chain
Captured by means of force STORMED
A cake and (in translation) a viceroy of India were named after this German town BATTENBERG
A blackwater tributary joining the Amazon at Manaus RIO NEGRO
“When it is ____, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red” (St Matthew) EVENING
A child aged about 12 TWEENER
____’s picture of the wedding at Cana is the largest painting on canvas in the Louvre Paolo Veronese
INFORMALLY IN THE US, TO DISCUSS IN DETAIL OR AT LENGTH hash over
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible PROOFREADER
TO LIE ABOUT ANOTHER. TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT ANOTHER DEFAME
Robert Peel’s Tamworth ____ of 1834 promised a review of civil and ecclesiastical institutions MANIFESTO
Phenomenon discovered in 1827 by observation of pollen grains in water BROWNIAN MOTION
Relating to claimed events without scientific explanation PARANORMAL
A wide-mouthed pitcher EWER
BAD HANDWRITING OR SPELLING, AS ANY FULE KNO CACOGRAPHY
CREAM CHEESE USED IN MAKING TIRAMISU MASCARPONE
To represent (someone) ACT FOR
To be 5D, in informal American usage hang one's hat up
The 51D flows through ____ just before it reaches the sea PISA
The skill of Bradman and Hutton BATSMANSHIP
The “____ shark” is a roof sculpture in an Oxford suburb HEADINGTON
Sunday Times journalist with strong views rod Liddle