The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 04 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Feature of a normal heart beat, controlled by the sino-atrial node sinus rhythm
Trafalgar, Lepanto or Salamis SEA BATTLE
One who classifies or defines DESIGNATOR
Valuable timber from some trees in the genus Dalbergia ROSEWOOD
8 ON THE BEAUFORT SCALE gale-force
SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BOTH KENNINGTON AND CROYDON WERE FOUNDED BY THOMAS ____, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, 1694-1715 TENISON
IN A STATE OF CONFUSION, SUPPOSEDLY NAMED AFTER AN OLD DISPUTE BETWEEN CITY OF LONDON LIVERY COMPANIES AT SIXES AND SEVENS
ISLAND FEATURED IN A GUARDIAN SUPPLEMENT ON APRIL 1, 1977 san Serriffe
Mix socially, possibly with those of other classes RUB SHOULDERS
An old informal meaning of 'corporation' distended belly
Plants featured in a BBC Panorama report on April 1, 1957 spaghetti trees
TO INTIMIDATE DAUNT
Act as others think you should, eg by resigning do the decent thing
AN X, Y OR Z IS THIS KIND OF NUMBER IN TRADITIONAL ALGEBRA UNKNOWN
Thomas ____ married Catherine Parr after Henry VIII died SEYMOUR
American name for a spittoon CUSPIDOR
Cause of midday merriness LIQUID LUNCH
Large variety of prawn or penguin KING
A queen may live here HIVE
IN GEOMETRY, PART OF A SHAPE CUT OFF BY A LINE OR PLANE INTERSECTING IT SEGMENT
ACCORDING TO THE ENGLISH HERITAGE WEBSITE, THIS CATHEDRAL CITY IS THE MOST FREQUENTLY BESIEGED PLACE IN THE BRITISH ISLES CARLISLE
Short sleep during a working day POWER NAP
The final outcome of an endeavour END PRODUCT
A QUATRAIN WITH RHYMING SCHEME A B A B HEROIC STANZA
Stanley Holloway played Alfred ____ in the film version of My Fair Lady DOOLITTLE
Steak ____, popular in the mid-20th century, is similar to steak au poivre, but with a flambéed sauce DIANE
The great ____ is an amphibian, protected in the UK CRESTED NEWT
To make a humiliating retraction eat one's words
Standard Chinese, or the language group including it MANDARIN
MRS ____ IS THE HOUSEKEEPER AT MANDERLEY DANVERS
'I ____ him, because he is upper class' (Ronnie Barker, in a 1960s TV sketch) LOOK UP TO
In 41A, this is 'Domingo de Páscoa' EASTER SUNDAY
Liz ____ finished fourth in Labour’s 2015 leadership election? KENDALL
Mexican folk song, adapted by Ritchie Valens in a 1958 hit LA BAMBA
A CHECKUP OR VIVA VOCE ORAL EXAM
____ SCREAM IS A ROCK GROUP FOUNDED IN GLASGOW IN 1982 PRIMAL
PLATINUM METAL ELEMENT, DISCOVERED BY WILLIAM HYDE WOLLASTON IN 1804 RHODIUM
Julie T Wallace starred in the BBC dramatisation of Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a ____ she-devil
A sauce or pickle adding flavour to food RELISH
'I want to ____, and ____, and ____!' (Vivian Nicholson, after her husband’s £152,000 pools win in 1961) SPEND
A HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER OR THE VIRUS CAUSING IT EBOLA
Leonard Bernstein operetta, based on a novella by Voltaire CANDIDE
THE IDEAS AND ATTITUDES ASSOCIATED WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE ETHOS
THE LANGUAGE FROM WHICH ENGLISH BORROWED THE WORDS 31A AND 43D PORTUGUESE
Daniel Craig stars in this 2008 film about Second World War partisans in German-occupied Poland DEFIANCE
LULLABY SUNG IN THE FIRST SCENE OF PORGY AND BESS SUMMERTIME
INFORMALLY, A PLANT OF THE GENUS TROPAEOLUM NASTURTIUM
ARMOUR PROTECTING THE FACE AND EYES VISOR
FRENCH COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR OF THE BBCSO, 1971-75 Pierre Boulez
One Iberian city after which a dessert wine is named OPORTO
ASSIETTES DE CHARCUTERIE OR INFORMALLY, BODY PARTS PLATES OF MEAT
A SMALL CASE FOR ARTICLES LIKE NEEDLES OR COSMETICS ETUI
AFTER A FOOTBALL GOAL KICK, THE BALL IS NOT IN PLAY UNTIL IT LEAVES THIS AREA PENALTY BOX
IN 1960, HERB ___ OF AUSTRALIA WAS THE LAST MAN TO SET A WORLD RECORD IN AN OLYMPIC 1500M FINAL ELLIOTT
LACKING IMAGINATION OR ORIGINALITY PROSAIC
Clyde ____ discovered Pluto in 1930 TOMBAUGH
Dark Sky Island (2015) is this Irish singer’s most recent album ENYA
Frivolous unexpected functionality in computer applications, such as the result of a Google search for 'Bletchley Park' EASTER EGG
Georgia ____'s best-known paintings were of flowers, skyscrapers, and the New Mexico landscape O'Keeffe
EXECUTION BY DROWNING, ESPECIALLY AT NANTES DURING THE REIGN OF TERROR NOYADE