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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 02 18
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
IN MARKETING, ____ TIME IS THE PERIOD DURING WHICH A CUSTOMER WAITS IN A QUEUE
DWELL
Alfredo ____ scored for Real Madrid in five European Cup victories
Di Stefano
The last major British TV drama series made in black and white, first shown in 1967
THE FORSYTE SAGA
A CONSTELLATION NAMED AFTER AN ANCIENT GREEK MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
LYRA
River in Devon, with a small population of beavers
OTTER
2009 film starring Colin Firth, based on a Christopher Isherwood novel about a gay academic
A SINGLE MAN
As at least some people think
SUPPOSEDLY
English syllable, maybe repeated, equivalent to 'grunz' in German, 'boo' in Japanese, and 'nöff' in Swedish
OINK
THE 1942-3 BATTLE OF ____ IS POSSIBLY THE BLOODIEST IN HISTORY
STALINGRAD
Character who does not eat Sophie in a Roald Dahl book
The BFG
SOMEONE WHO MAKES TIGHT-FITTING UNDERGARMENTS
CORSETIERE
1976 MUSICAL GANGSTER COMEDY MOVIE WITH A CAST OF CHILDREN
BUGSY MALONE
A LONG-LEGGED WADING BIRD
STILT
A ____ is the last entire pet called Eric in Monty Python’s Fish Licence sketch
FRUIT BAT
Sydney is its largest city
OCEANIA
Widespread hatred, often incurred as a result of one’s actions
ODIUM
A KITCHEN MILL OR GRATER, BOTH WITH THREE CHOICES FOR THE ROTATING COMPONENT
MOULI
URBAN RAILWAY SYSTEM IN GERMANY
S-bahn
Group of museums informally called 'America’s attic'
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Emily Brontë character played in films by Laurence Olivier, Timothy Dalton and Ralph Fiennes
HEATHCLIFF
As something to be on, an opposite to 'wagon'
RAZZLE
ADJUSTABLE DIAPHRAGM USED IN MOST MODERN CAMERAS
IRIS
INTERNATIONAL ECOLOGICAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION, WHOSE LOGO IS A PANDA
World Wide Fund for Nature
AS SOLD IN THE UK, THIS ITALIAN SAUSAGE COMES FROM BOLOGNA
MORTADELLA
A POEM WITH SIX VERSES, ALL ENDING WITH THE FIRST OR LAST LINE OF THE FIRST VERSE
VILLANELLE
One of the 'ines herbes' in French cuisine
TARRAGON
OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF POEMS GRIEVING FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY A BABYLONIAN ARMY
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Behaviour matching that of most other people
CONFORMITY
THE SECOND ELECTRONIC DIGITAL STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTER, FIRST USED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN 1949
EDSAC
Former name for the western part of New Guinea, annexed by Indonesia in 1962
IRIAN JAYA
The police of this port 'dismisseth us' in a tongue-twister
LEITH
____ AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT IS A BOOK OF ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOS
YOSEMITE
Backward movement of a fired gun
RECOIL
Ancient Roman military unit with about 500 soldiers
COHORT
Former centre of Catharism in France’s Tarn department
ALBI
OF A BUSINESS, NO LONGER OPERATING
CLOSED DOWN
CZECH COMPOSER OF THE BARTERED BRIDE
SMETANA
'____ is not the art of scholars, but illiterates' (Werner Herzog)
FILM
LOWEST POSSIBLE RATING IN MANY ONLINE REVIEWS
one-star
THE ____ CHANNEL IS BETWEEN MEXICO AND CUBA
YUCATAN
Gut feelings may also be located ____
in one's bones
IN AUSTRALIA, GENUINE OR TRUE
DINKUM
Type of missile used to destroy other missiles
surface-to-air
At sea, 'stop!'
AVAST
A DEADLY SIN
ENVY
Permission to be absent from a school or college
EXEAT
Britain’s highest chalk sea cliff
BEACHY HEAD
Lytton ____ wrote Eminent Victorians, which revolutionised biographical writing
STRACHEY
WOVEN FABRIC WITH A PATTERN OF DIAGONAL RIDGES
TWILL
Thomas Love Peacock novel, similar to his previous Headlong Hall
Crotchet Castle
FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN, WHOSE TOPOLOGICAL CONJECTURE WAS PROVED IN 2003
Henri Poincare
Winston Churchill’s birthplace
BLENHEIM PALACE
Austrian abbot whose work started modern genetics
GREGOR MENDEL
One recipe for ____ uses mayonnaise, chopped pickles, ketchup, lemon juice and minced garlic
THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING
Avoid going to bed
SIT UP
Informally, the first US president to win the Nobel peace prize
TEDDY ROOSEVELT
The 'apple of love' in some European languages
TOMATO
THE FIRST TALKIE FEATURE FILM, STARRING AL JOLSON
THE JAZZ SINGER