The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
GREEK GODDESS OF AGRICULTURE AND HARVEST DEMETER
THE OFFENCE OF A TWOCCER taking without consent
Mowgli’s friend and mentor in The Jungle Book BAGHEERA
Informally, the mathematical function inverse to exponentiation LOG
CHARLES DARWIN WORK ON SEXUAL SELECTION DESCENT OF MAN
CARBONATES OF THIS ELEMENT AND CALCIUM CREATE HARD WATER MAGNESIUM
LIZARD-LIKE REPTILE OF NEW ZEALAND TUATARA
Warren Mitchell’s most famous comic role Alf Garnett
WIND WHICH IS DIRECTIONALLY OPPOSITE TO THE SIROCCO MISTRAL
CANADIAN-AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST KNOWN AS THE MAN OF A THOUSAND VOICES RICH LITTLE
Our possible fate after death Eternal nothingness
ASTRONOMICAL TREATISE BY PTOLEMY ALMAGEST
Actress who gained fame as a five-year-old in Bright Eyes SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Hindu sage or poet RISHI
Mischievous shape-shifting god in Norse mythology LOKI
CHIEF PUPPET IN THE FRENCH EQUIVALENT OF PUNCH AND JUDY GUIGNOL
1991 film starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Gateshead, Jarrow, and South Shields are ____ towns TYNESIDE
RELATING TO THE GROIN INGUINAL
Composer of the opera Bluebeard’s Castle BARTOK
SUBSTANCE PRODUCED BY THE BREAKING UP OF EG FAT GLOBULES HOMOGENATE
Peter Mark ____ published a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms ROGET
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY REPLACED BY SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS SEAN SPICER
Chrysotile is one form of this fire-resistant material ASBESTOS
Critical evaluation of biblical text EXEGESIS
AUTHOR OF KIDNAPPED Robert Louis Stevenson
STRAP HOLDING A SADDLE OR OTHER EQUESTRIAN EQUIPMENT IN PLACE SURCINGLE
Horse-drawn carriage named after the German town where it was first made LANDAU
Street between Pall Mall and Northumberland Avenue, especially in Monopoly WHITEHALL
Jewish greeting, the Hebrew word for “peace” SHALOM
A ____ PLAY IS A STAGED BIBLE STORY MYSTERY
Pupa within its cocoon CHRYSALIS
Capital of North Holland HAARLEM
Russian tea urn, sometimes elaborately decorated SAMOVAR
Actress who starred alongside Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice GEENA DAVIS
DEVICE WHICH CONVERTS DIGITAL DATA TO AN ANALOGUE SIGNAL AND VICE VERSA MODEM
BEFORE JULES VERNE, CASANOVA WROTE THIS BOOK SUBTITLED JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH ICOSAMERON
Ben Jonson comedy, its title the Italian for 'fox' VOLPONE
A POUT MOUE
State of Mexico between Chihuahua and Baja California SONORA
Retained, as of a grudge HARBOURED
LIKE FOINAVEN, A RACEHORSE AND A SUTHERLAND MOUNTAIN ARKLE
GRAPE JUICE READY FOR USE IN WINE-MAKING MUST
A single-seat carriage with two or four wheels STANHOPE
THE ____, DEBUT NOVEL OF STEPHEN FRY LIAR
ANIMALS WITH WING-LIKE FEET ALIPEDS
Entertainer whose epitaph describes him and his wife as “Reunitey in the heavenly-bode — Deep Joy!” Stanley Unwin
“One touch of nature makes the whole world ____” (Ulysses, in Troilus and Cressida) KIN
Device put in front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles COWCATCHER
To dine at the building where the food was prepared EAT IN
13th-century theologian Thomas ____ wrote the “five ways”, arguments for the existence of God AQUINAS
TAXONOMIC RANK BETWEEN FAMILY AND SPECIES GENUS
English king, replaced briefly by Sweyn Forkbeard ETHELRED
The setting of Coronation Street weatherfield
AUTHOR CREDITED WITH POPULARISING THE NAME WENDY J M BARRIE
THE ONLY FOOTBALLER TO SCORE A HAT-TRICK IN A WORLD CUP FINAL GEOFF HURST
Host of Crackerjack from 1968-1974 MICHAEL ASPEL
HILL IN PERTHSHIRE WHICH IS MENTIONED IN MACBETH DUNSINANE
ENCYCLOPAEDIC WORK ON THE LIVES OF CHRISTIAN SAINTS, STARTED IN THE 17TH CENTURY Acta Sanctorum
APRIL 25 IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ANZAC DAY