The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 04 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Crime drama series whose central characters were Crockett and Tubbs MIAMI VICE
IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, THE LAST KING OF TROY PRIAM
To believe, or to assume provisionally SUPPOSE
IN COMPUTING, A SINGLE INSTANCE OF A REPEATED INSTRUCTION ITERATION
MINISTER FOR THE OLYMPICS 2005-2010 Tessa Jowell
Alternative name for the eleventh month of the French Revolutionary calendar fervidor
Herb used in Scandinavian and eastern European cuisine DILL
A small tree with pale purple flowers LILAC
A type of thick gruel LOBLOLLY
SCULPTURE BY AUGUSTE RODIN THE THINKER
American Indian, the first to meet the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony SAMOSET
____... with Jools Holland, a BBC live music show LATER
Practical joker of German folklore, depicted in a Richard Strauss tone poem Till Eulenspiegel
FIRST WIFE OF HENRY VIII Catherine of Aragon
Samuel Johnson’s Prince of Abissinia RASSELAS
“Mad Dan” ____, a character in The Goon Show ECCLES
South American rodent related to the guinea pig CAVY
Spanish city with a Burial of the Sardine festival on the Saturday after Easter MURCIA
Workplace for some political journalists PRESS GALLERY
English cricketer who took his 400th Test wicket against New Zealand in March 2018 Stuart Broad
The plump, winged boy of renaissance and baroque art PUTTO
Automobile executive whose 1984 autobiography was a best-seller LEE IACOCCA
THIN STRIP OF WOOD OFTEN USED IN PLASTERING LATH
ENCLOSED SALTWATER AREA IN WHICH SEA ANIMALS SUCH AS DOLPHINS ARE KEPT AND TAMED SEAQUARIUM
Type of sun hat; an African antelope TOPI
Author of The Glass Menagerie TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Richard ____ wrote Watership Down ADAMS
A Manhattan made with Scotch instead of rye or bourbon ROB ROY
THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 2025 YARDS IN A ____ MILE NAUTICAL
'Religion's in the heart, not the ____' (Douglas Jerrold) KNEE
JOCKEY WHO WON THE 2016 GRAND NATIONAL ON RULE THE WORLD David Mullins
The twin city of Saint Paul MINNEAPOLIS
SIAMESE CAT WITH DARK BROWN FUR ON FACE, PAWS, AND TAIL SEALPOINT
1997 historical drama starring Morgan Freeman AMISTAD
SIGNIFICANT ESCAPE OF BLOOD FROM THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM HAEMORRHAGE
Influential blues guitarist, a long-standing collaborator of Beth Hart Joe Bonamassa
Marsh bird noted for its booming call BITTERN
The Jewish Feast of Lots PURIM
Capital of the East Flanders province of Belgium GHENT
____ I ruled Macedon from 413 to 399 BC ARCHELAUS
A 100TH ANNIVERSARY CENTENNIAL
Nebraska’s largest city OMAHA
COMPATRIOT TEAM BEATEN BY FC PORTO IN THE 2011 EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL BRAGA
1987 legal drama film starring Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley SUSPECT
Former BBC newsreader and presenter of the first two series of Top Gear Angela Rippon
Fictional captain, also known as Prince Dakkar, created by Jules Verne NEMO
Name of French origin for a horse-drawn hackney carriage FIACRE
Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease PNEUMOCOCCI
____ Upon Everything was a book with advice on topics such as 'Invalid soup', 'To kill flies', and 'Charades' Enquire Within
1941 Disney animation whose protagonist’s only friend is a mouse called Timothy DUMBO
COLUMN IN A NEWSPAPER, BY ITS CHIEF WRITER EDITORIAL
Australian state whose capital is Brisbane QUEENSLAND
The garden where Jesus and his disciples slept the night before the crucifixion GETHSEMANE
Organisation headed by Audrey Azoulay and headquartered in Place de Fontenoy, Paris UNESCO
'They dined on mince and slices of quince, / Which they ate with a ____' (Edward Lear) RUNCIBLE SPOON
DIRECTOR OF THE 1971 FILM THE LAST PICTURE SHOW Peter Bogdanovich
South Korean car manufacturer, defunct since 1999 DAEWOO
Site of an infamous 1960 massacre in South Africa SHARPEVILLE
Pharisee who helped prepare Christ’s body for burial after the crucifixion NICODEMUS
Members of one branch of Islam SHIITES