The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 03 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
CLAY EXTRACTED NEAR ST AUSTELL; ITS DISCOVERY CRUCIALLY DEVELOPED THE MANUFACTURE OF ENGLISH PORCELAIN China stone
'Burns' and 'Bonfire' can both precede this word NIGHT
PROSPECTOR IN THE CALIFORNIAN GOLD RUSH Forty-niner
Virginia county, part of the Washington metropolitan area, where the Pentagon and a national cemetery are located ARLINGTON
The Spanish provinces of Alava and Vizcaya are such BASQUE
____ HILL, 152M ABOVE SEA LEVEL, IS THE HIGHEST POINT IN GREATER LONDON NORTH OF THE THAMES STANMORE
'____ Superbrain', Annie Jones's character in Neighbours PLAIN JANE
Island group reigned over by Queen Salote from 1918 to 1965 TONGA
This craftsman may use an agraffe to hold blocks together STONEMASON
CHARACTERISTIC OF OLD AGE SENESCENT
Flaring skirts on suits of armour tonlets
A SERF IN ANCIENT SPARTA HELOT
'Cain […] dwelt in the land of Nod, on ____ of Eden' (Bible) THE EAST
BODY OF WATER SUCH AS BASS, OTRANTO OR TORRES STRAIT
Isabella, who wrote the Book of Household Management MRS BEETON
A former lace-making town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire Long Eaton
CUT OF LAMB FOR THE SUNDAY JOINT LEG OF MUTTON
'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be ____' (The white rabbit, in the first words spoken in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) TOO LATE
IN PANTOMIME, BARON HARDUP'S SERVANT, WHO IS OFTEN DRESSED IN A BELLBOY'S COSTUME BUTTONS
Elgar’s Chanson de ___, was originally for violin and piano MATIN
TYPE OF VITREOUS POTTERY NOTED FOR ITS STRENGTH AND DURABILITY IRONSTONE
CHEMICAL SOLUTION WHICH SOFTENS COLOURS IN A PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK TONER
AUSTRIAN SOCIAL REFORMER RUDOLF ____ FOUNDED AN EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY, STILL USED IN SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER HIM STEINER
Russian for 'no' NYET
FOLK WHO LEAD A ROUTINE MONOTONOUS LIFE AUTOMATONS
Travelling at over 100 miles per hour Ton-up
CUMBRIAN VILLAGE ON THE KENT ESTUARY, IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF MORECAMBE BAY ARNSIDE
ONE OF 24 IN AN OCTAVE QUARTER TONE
In county cricket, Warwickshire’s home ground EDGBASTON
SIMULTANEOUSLY OR IMMEDIATELY AT ONCE
SAVINGS FOR A FUTURE RAINY DAY NEST EGGS
JOHN ___, ENGLISH LOGICIAN, BEST KNOWN FOR DIAGRAMS USED IN SET THEORY VENN
DRAMATIST JOE ____ WROTE LOOT AND WHAT THE BUTLER SAW ORTON
The weight of a merchant ship’s cargo TONNAGE
AN INSTANCE OF STERNUTATION SNEEZE
SUMMER OUTFIT FOR A BABY OR YOUNG CHILD SUNSUIT
DISMISS A NAUGHTY PUPIL FROM CLASS SEND OUT
ADVERTISED AGGRESSIVELY OR QUESTIONABLY HUCKSTERED
Type of sculpture originated by Alexander Calder MOBILE
Author of the 1687 work The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ISAAC NEWTON
FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE WHICH WON THE EUROPEAN CUP IN 1982 ASTON VILLA
IVAN ____ WON EVERY TENNIS GRAND SLAM SINGLES TITLE EXCEPT WIMBLEDON, AND LATER COACHED ANDY MURRAY LENDL
BALLERINA ____ SIBLEY OFTEN DANCED WITH ANTHONY DOWELL ANTOINETTE
LIMB OF DOVER IN THE CONFEDERATION OF CINQUE PORTS, AND HQ OF SAGA FOLKESTONE
STEVE ____ WAS THE 1980 OLYMPIC 800M CHAMPION OVETT
A birthmark NAEVUS
SOMETHING USED TO START AN EXPLOSION DETONATOR
STATE CAPITAL OF LOUISIANA BATON ROUGE
Liverpool comedian ____ Sayle was the Comic Strip’s first emcee in the 1980s ALEXEI
In 1841, John ____ became the first US vice president to succeed to the presidency without election TYLER
BEN ____'S FIRST TV SUCCESS WAS AS A CO-WRITER OF THE YOUNG ONES ELTON
MAGIC, SUPPOSEDLY INVOLVING COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD NECROMANCY
SCHOOL FOUNDED BY HENRY VI IN 1440 ETON COLLEGE
Communist state founded in 1922 SOVIET UNION
THE ONLY CELTIC LANGUAGE SPOKEN ON MAINLAND EUROPE BRETON
MONTEVERDI OPERA, THE EARLIEST STILL REGULARLY PERFORMED ORFEO