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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 01 07
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
Unbleached linen or its colour
ECRU
The 51D flows through ____ just before it reaches the sea
PISA
Robert Peel’s Tamworth ____ of 1834 promised a review of civil and ecclesiastical institutions
MANIFESTO
A wide-mouthed pitcher
EWER
A blackwater tributary joining the Amazon at Manaus
RIO NEGRO
The “____ shark” is a roof sculpture in an Oxford suburb
HEADINGTON
(LATIN) WHAT GOOD WOULD THAT DO ME?
CUI BONO
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible
PROOFREADER
DESIRE AND EXPECTATION ROLLED INTO ONE
HOPE
INFORMALLY IN THE US, TO DISCUSS IN DETAIL OR AT LENGTH
hash over
UNABLE TO LEAVE
RESIDENT
To be 5D, in informal American usage
hang one's hat up
Jeanne Moreau and Paulette Goddard have played Célestine in film versions of this 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau
Diary Of A Chambermaid
Distance(s) most often used in connection with golf and American football
YARDAGE
THE RIVER LUCY HONEYCHURCH WANTED TO SEE FROM HER ROOM AT THE PENSION BERTOLINI
ARNO
ABOUT FOUR MONTHS PREGNANT
MIDTERM
TO ____ THE WASH IS TO BE REVEALED AT LAST OR TURN OUT WELL
COME OUT IN
A COMMUNICATIONS INNOVATION FIRST USED IN THE UK IN NORWICH (1959) AND CROYDON
POSTAL CODE
TO LIE ABOUT ANOTHER. TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT ANOTHER
DEFAME
Clues in italics are from this 1911 book by American satirist Ambrose Bierce
the Devil's Dictionary
Sunday Times journalist with strong views
rod Liddle
COOKER COMPONENT IN BLACK, WHITE AND RED
CERAMIC HOB
Today, in Germany
SONNTAG
“When it is ____, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red” (St Matthew)
EVENING
WITH AFFECTION FOR THE PAST
NOSTALGIC
The skill of Bradman and Hutton
BATSMANSHIP
BELONGING TO ME IF I CAN HOLD IT OR SEIZE IT
MINE
The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue
AUCTIONEER
Captured by means of force
STORMED
____’s picture of the wedding at Cana is the largest painting on canvas in the Louvre
Paolo Veronese
TO DINE
OVEREAT
A PERSON WHO TALKS WHEN YOU WISH HIM TO LISTEN
BORE
JAMES ____ WAS PRIMARY EDITOR OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY FROM 1879 TO 1915
MURRAY
AREA OF LAND WITH MULTIPLE BUILDINGS BUILT FOR THE SAME PURPOSE
ESTATE
____ WAS A 2001-4 RADIO 4 SITCOM ABOUT A HORMONAL WIFE
THE CHANGE
Girl from the ____ is a Bob Dylan song influenced by Scarborough Fair
NORTH COUNTRY
To represent (someone)
ACT FOR
LONG-HAIRED TOY DOG BREED
shih-tzu
SOMETHING USED TO ENHANCE THE FIT OR COMFORT OF A SHOE
INNER SOLE
1967 FILM ABOUT PARTNERS IN CRIME
BONNIE AND CLYDE
A cake and (in translation) a viceroy of India were named after this German town
BATTENBERG
Relating to claimed events without scientific explanation
PARANORMAL
A SHACKLE FOR THE FREE
HABIT
THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT ____ IS THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
KINABALU
SOMETHING SERIAL USED BY BACH, BEETHOVEN AND BRAHMS, BUT NOT SATIE, SCARLATTI AND SIBELIUS
chronological order
HOWARD ____ WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO REFEREE THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND WORLD CUP FINALS IN THE SAME YEAR
WEBB
The patriotic art of lying for one’s country
DIPLOMACY
CREAM CHEESE USED IN MAKING TIRAMISU
MASCARPONE
DRAWING ATTENTION TO SOMETHING TO GAIN ADVANTAGE
making play of
A WOMAN WITH A FINE PROSPECT OF HAPPINESS BEHIND HER
BRIDE
A child aged about 12
TWEENER
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
PELE
A PLACE OF RETIREMENT FOR WOMEN WHO WISH FOR LEISURE TO MEDITATE UPON THE VICE OF IDLENESS
CONVENT
GOOGLE ____ IS A VIDEO CHAT MOBILE APP
DUO
BAD HANDWRITING OR SPELLING, AS ANY FULE KNO
CACOGRAPHY
A TALL VEGETABLE INTENDED BY NATURE TO SERVE AS A PENAL APPARATUS
TREE
Device for retarding a vehicle’s motion
drag chain
EXTRAVAGANT
OTT
LIVID
flying off the handle
Phenomenon discovered in 1827 by observation of pollen grains in water
BROWNIAN MOTION