The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 01 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Suet pudding containing dried fruit SPOTTED DICK
Historically, the USA’s busiest immigrant inspection station, opened in 1892 ELLIS ISLAND
DISTANCE BETWEEN CAMERA LENS AND FILM OR IMAGE SENSOR FOCAL LENGTH
The first production of this 1973 Peter Shaffer play starred Alec McCowen as Dysart and Peter Firth as Alan Strang EQUUS
&2 Ballerina star of the 1948 film The Red Shoes and wife of broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy [Two words] MOIRA
The paper crane is the best-known creation in this art ORIGAMI
Anthony Joshua’s current boxing division HEAVYWEIGHT
Geoff Capes, Tomasz Majewski and Valerie Adams shotputters
Self-centred folk EGOISTS
The vicissitudes of life UPS AND DOWNS
FEMALE FILM STAR LEADING LADY
River which flows through Assam and Bangladesh BRAHMAPUTRA
A ____ triangle has unequal sides and angles SCALENE
WINE FROM NORTHERN SPAIN RIOJA
Old Testament scholars and teachers of the Jewish law SCRIBES
Bowlers such as Chandrasekhar and Anil Kumble Leg-spinners
A hole in the wall CASH MACHINE
WATER LILY, ASSOCIATED WITH A POSITION AND EATERS LOTUS
David Bowie’s song about Major Tom, released in 1969 SPACE ODDITY
The Three Sisters are ridges on the southern side of this Scottish valley GLEN COE
Uncontrolled expansion of a city URBAN SPRAWL
Unsparing critics DUTCH UNCLES
Trademark for reflecting roadstud invented by Percy Shaw CATSEYE
In grammar, locative and vocative CASES
&16 Juche is the state ideology of this nation [Two words] NORTH
Adios, hwyl fawr or arrivederci GOODBYE
Small harpsichords with one manual SPINETS
Central American capital city severely damaged by earthquakes in 1931 and 1972 MANAGUA
A bundle of arrows SHEAF
15TH AND 23RD CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU
Yellow-flowered weed, also called dog standard RAGWORT
SEE 19 KOREA
1940 western in which Jean Arthur plays the first female settler in Tucson ARIZONA
A PORTION OF A SHARE ISSUE TRANCHE
Historically, a territorial area around Dublin or Calais ENGLISH PALE
____ declared independence from Ethiopia in 1993 ERITREA
Although it is one of two national official languages, Arabic is not used in ____ passports ISRAELI
Composer of Holberg Suite and Wedding Day at Troldhaugen GRIEG
Jane ____, the only female film director to receive the Palme D’Or — for The Piano, in 1993 CAMPION
Thick soup of leeks, potatoes, and cream, served cool VICHYSSOISE
Narrator of Moby-Dick ISHMAEL
Gene ____ played obsessive cop Popeye Doyle HACKMAN
Seaport on the coast of western Syria, opposite the northeastern tip of Cyprus LATAKIA
British nurse, executed in Brussels in 1915 EDITH CAVELL
Branch of Tynwald consisting of 24 elected members HOUSE OF KEYS
Theology promoting reconciliation between churches IRENICS
Oscar ____ was the lyricist for Showboat and Oklahoma! HAMMERSTEIN
Hygienic equipment for babies’ feeding bottles sterilisers
Home ground of the only amateur club in the Scottish Professional Football League HAMPDEN PARK
Melvyn ____ is the presenter of In Our Time on Radio 4 BRAGG
WHERE GIGI HADID, ADRIANA LIMA AND LIU WEN PERFORM CATWALK
ROY ____, CAPTAIN OF MANCHESTER UNITED FROM 1997 TO 2005 KEANE
Debussy checked proof copies of La Mer at Eastbourne’s ____ Hotel GRAND
One of two conflicts over the mastery of South Africa BOER WAR
Islands, the southernmost part of the continental USA FLORIDA KEYS
London's first suburban cemetery, opened in 1832, where Wilkie Collins and Decimus Burton are buried KENSAL GREEN
GOLD COIN FIRST ISSUED IN VENICE IN 1284 DUCAT
Ecuador’s currency before it was replaced with the US dollar in 2000 SUCRE
GARLIC MAYONNAISE AIOLI
Novel about middle-class life by Joanna Trollope or Mary Wesley, say AGA SAGA
Possible dish after prawn cocktail at a 1970s dinner party CHICKEN KIEV
SEE 3 SHEARER
County town, formerly a major centre of shoe-making NORTHAMPTON
Capital of Belgium’s Wallonia region NAMUR