The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 02 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A magazine rifle or pistol, named after a German inventor MAUSER
SHOUT OF APPROVAL CHEER
THE ____ RAILWAY IS A HERITAGE LINE RUNNING FROM WHITBY TO PICKERING North Yorkshire Moors
PERIOD OF UP TO FOUR WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS ADVENT
SACRED CHORAL COMPOSITION MOTET
GLANDS AT THE ROOT OF THE NECK WHICH BECOME VESTIGIAL IN ADULTHOOD THYMI
PATRICK STEWART'S FIRST FILM APPEARANCE AS CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD WAS IN ____ Star Trek Generations
Ring-shaped moulding, as at the top of a column ANNULET
THE TREMOLO ARM OF A GUITAR IS ALSO CALLED A ____ BAR WHAMMY
THE ROYAL FAMILY USUALLY ATTENDS THE ____ GATHERING ON THE FIRST SATURDAY IN SEPTEMBER BRAEMAR
Political party whose president is Cyril Ramaphosa African National Congress
OUTER LAYER OF AN EMBRYO, WHICH DEVELOPS TO FORM SKIN AND NERVES ECTODERM
SWOLLEN LYMPH NODE IN THE ARMPIT OR GROIN BUBO
Distance between a vehicle’s front and rear axles WHEELBASE
A PLACE SETTING AT A RESTAURANT TABLE COVER
ANVIL-SHAPED BONE OF THE MIDDLE EAR INCUS
A SMALL WEB-WEAVING MITE, A LEAF PEST RED SPIDER
THE THREE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS NAMED AFTER BIRDS INCLUDE THE BALTIMORE ____ ORIOLES
SWISS TENNIS PLAYER WHO WON THE 2016 US OPEN STAN WAWRINKA
A ____ ORANGE IS A VARIETY OF APPLE BLENHEIM
STRONG MASCULINE PRIDE MACHISMO
IN RUGBY, A FOUL PLAY IN WHICH THE BALL IS HIT FORWARDS knock-on
NO 1 UK SINGLE FOR 2 UNLIMITED IN 1993 NO LIMIT
Status Quo’s first hit single was inspired by this artist L S LOWRY
Roman emperor ____ Valerius Aurelius Constantinus is also known as Constantine the Great FLAVIUS
Psychologist and former FBI agent created by James Patterson ALEX CROSS
Playwright who wrote The Rivals SHERIDAN
Opera performed most in recent Arena di Verona seasons AIDA
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are Canada’s ____ Provinces MARITIME
1996 Formula One world champion DAMON HILL
ISLAND WHERE THE GREEKS HID THEIR FLEET NEAR THE END OF THE TROJAN WAR TENEDOS
IN A NERVOUS STATE RATTLED
MAMMAL WHOSE STOMACH IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR COMPARTMENTS RUMINANT
The first American woman in space (in 1983) SALLY RIDE
The only one of the “seven wonders” whose existence has never been proved HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON
Husband of Muhammad’s daughter Fatima, later the fourth Muslim caliph, assassinated in 661 ALI
Game won by taking (or not taking) the last matchstick NIM
Fabric from Angora goats MOHAIR
Driving game series launched on the PlayStation in 1997 GRAN TURISMO
Confectionery trademark which is a boy’s name reversed trebor
Composer whose symphonies include the “Bear” and “Surprise” HAYDN
Company whose logo depicts two walking fingers YELL
Cloud type with rounded heaps on a dark horizontal base CUMULUS
Bond girl Plenty ____ featured in Diamonds Are Forever O'Toole
Blackpool Pleasure Beach roller coaster which opened in 1994 THE BIG ONE
Author of Some of Me Poems PAM AYRES
Architect who designed the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme EDWIN LUTYENS
The process of feeding data into a computer INPUT
The world’s only alpine parrot, found in New Zealand KEA
A langlaufer is a cross-country ____ SKIER
The ____, 1967 film with Jason Robards as Al Capone St Valentine's Day Massacre
Theatrical comedy by Moliere, set in the house of Orgon TARTUFFE
____ is credited with the invention of the postage stamp ROWLAND HILL
“They were summoned from the hillside” is the first line of this 1914 song KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING
Japanese farewell, which translates as “if it must be so” SAYONARA
Usually hooded wicker basket, used as an infant’s bed BASSINET
In Greek mythology, a water nymph — one of the 3,000 daughters of Tethys OCEANID
Alban ____ based his first opera on an unfinished play by Georg Büchner, and did not complete his second opera BERG
A 1985 TV advertising campaign for this Japanese company used a version of the song “’Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?” TOSHIBA
A scrap of food ORT