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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 05 06
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Hapless fictional character played by Simon Jones, Chris Langham, and Martin Freeman
ARTHUR DENT
The original family name of Darth Vader
SKYWALKER
FOOT-OPERATED LEVER
TREADLE
SPANISH TOWN JUST ACROSS THE BORDER FROM GIBRALTAR
La Linea
Monterrey is the capital of this Mexican state
NUEVO LEON
Arabian kingdom thought to be modern day Yemen
SHEBA
German equivalent of 'that is'
das heisst
One of two second-row players in a rugby union scrum
LOCK
Actress who gained fame as the sitcom character Barbara Good
Felicity Kendal
Enchantress of Greek myth who turned sailors into swine
CIRCE
Word for 'outstanding' thought to date from around 2003 but popularised by Perez Hilton in 2009
AMAZEBALLS
FORWARD PART OF A SHIP
PROW
WHEN DESCRIBING CLOUD COVER, ONE EIGHTH OF THE SKY
OKTA
ICE SKATING JUMP FROM ONE FOOT TO THE OTHER, INCLUDING A HALF TURN
AXEL
Wine of the Loire Valley, usually white
SANCERRE
Greek mathematician considered the father of geometry
EUCLID
Former teletext service of ITV and Channel 4
ORACLE
Adam ____, host of The Last Leg
HILLS
Area of dead tissue caused by loss of blood supply
INFARCT
Harry Potter headmistress played by Maggie Smith
Minerva McGonagall
In zoology, to use arms for locomotion
BRACHIATE
An orange roan is a type of ____
COCKER SPANIEL
1963 film starring Shelley Winters, based on a Jean Genet play
THE BALCONY
Canine friend of Blue Peter presenter John Noakes
SHEP
A TWO-MASTED BOAT AND AN ABBREVIATION OF AN ARMY RANK
BRIG
'The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us' (The Tragedy of King Lear)
PLAGUE
JOSEPH KESSELRING BLACK COMEDY PLAY ABOUT THE BREWSTER FAMILY
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Ireland’s Rockabill Island has the largest European colony of ____ terns
ROSEATE
Informally, a black eye
SHINER
COINED IN 1975, TERM FOR A WEALTHY CHELSEA RESIDENT
SLOANE RANGER
Bob Seger single, from the album Beautiful Loser, a less common spelling of its subject
KATMANDU
COCKTAIL MADE WITH VODKA AND ORANGE JUICE
SCREWDRIVER
Political style introduced under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
NEW LABOUR
THE CLASS OF TAPEWORMS
cestoda
Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc
STEVE WOZNIAK
TYPE OF NECKWEAR NAMED AFTER SLAVIC MERCENARIES OF THE 17TH CENTURY
CRAVAT
Familiar alternative name for a German shepherd dog
ALSATIAN
HORDEOLUM, A SWELLING OF THE EYELID
STYE
The world’s first female president of a republic
Isabel Peron
Situation last declared in the UK by Edward Heath’s government
State Of Emergency
Group of people serving a (usually) important person
RETINUE
HOME OF THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB
ST ANDREWS
SOREN ____ IS CONSIDERED A FOUNDER OF EXISTENTIALISM
KIERKEGAARD
UNINTENDED, ACCIDENTAL
INADVERTENT
ARCHAIC TERM FOR AN UNSPECIFIED DAY IN THE NEAR FUTURE
odd-come-shortly
AN AMPHIBIAN OF THE ANURA ORDER
FROG
SOUTH AFRICAN DISH OF CURRIED MINCE AND VARIOUS OTHER INGREDIENTS
BOBOTIE
Applied retrospectively (of a law)
EX POST FACTO
SEVERE INABILITY TO DO SIMPLE ARITHMETIC, CAUSED BY CEREBRAL IMPAIRMENT
DYSCALCULIA
Author of The Moonstone
WILKIE COLLINS
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
C S LEWIS
Country of northwest Africa, its capital Nouakchott
MAURITANIA
BELGIAN DEFENDER WHO JOINED TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR IN 2015
Toby Alderweireld
REPUBLIC BORDERED BY LIBYA, NIGER, AND SUDAN
CHAD
AFRICAN COUNTRY WHOSE CAPITAL IS ACCRA
GHANA
A young herring
SILD
A title of Riccardo in Verdi’s opera A Masked Ball
EARL OF WARWICK
____ drinks are used to replace minerals and salt lost by sweating
ISOTONIC
Cricketers like Alan Knott, Tariq Iqbal, and Thomas Box
WICKETKEEPERS
Probiotic drink containing lactobacillus casei, launched in Japan in 1935
yakult