The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 06 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A 'picture letter' used in electronic communication EMOJI
Organisation whose main opponent was THRUSH UNCLE
Days after date in which somehow Paris no longer expanded disprad
Beginning of drama? Part is so terrible PROTASIS
Elated moron, frenzied devil-worshipper DEMONOLATER
AN OBJECT FILLED WITH AIR BEFORE USE INFLATABLE
1994 movie in which Jodie Foster was the star and a producer NELL
HITS MAKING INSECT HALF CONFUSED waps
WOMAN WITH FUR IN SOUTH AMERICAN REGION Pampean
THE CHARACTERISTIC SOUND OF A PIG OINK
WHAT HAS UNCLE FOOLISHLY WASTED? TIME wadsett
A DISTINGUISHED ARTIST, RESTRICTED GOING ROUND, WEARING TOP DECORATION TIARAED
LARGE AMOUNT SAID TO BE IN THESE BEER-CONTAINERS TUNS
A fish basket CREEL
Arrival, especially of a large number of people INFLUX
1964 EPIC WESTERN STARRING RICHARD WIDMARK AND CARROLL BAKER Cheyenne Autumn
Bar closing early and willingly, as before? LEVE
Folklore enemy of the wolf Isengrim REYNARD
Mexican salamander, its name meaning 'water servant' AXOLOTL
Seaman and chums, salts osmates
Stage name of Trinidadian-born singer Leslie Charles BILLY OCEAN
The first part of Dante'’s Divine Comedy INFERNO
1972 SONG BY ALBERT HAMMOND AND MIKE HAZLEWOOD, A HIT FOR THE HOLLIES TWO YEARS LATER The Air That I Breathe
Frank ____ was the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team WORRELL
AFTER APOLLO 11 LANDED ON THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY, APOLLO 12 TOUCHED DOWN IN THE OCEAN OF ____ STORMS
DESPITE ITS NAME, THIS IS THE MIDDLE SECTION OF A VERTICAL SPAR TOPMAST
Michigan city where Jesse Owens broke three world records and equalled a fourth in a 45-minute spell, at the 1935 Big Ten championship ANN ARBOR
Home of the Super League's Vikings WIDNES
SPICE DERIVED FROM NUTMEG MACE
Like type of book in which poem is given new heading non-net
THE PRINCIPAL OPPONENTS OF ATHENS IN THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR SPARTANS
Christ's Hospital is the '____ School' BLUECOAT
Available for use by those of either gender UNISEX
TONGUE, LIVER, OR KIDNEY FOR EXAMPLE OFFAL
NURSES FINALLY RECORD TWITCHING ASSOCIATED WITH BACTERIA SEPTIC
RESIN SPREAD ON MICA conima
FELLOWS BACKING EAST ANGLIAN TOWN, NONE AGAINST nem diss
Part of the Eucharist in which bread and wine are placed on the altar OFFERTORY
THE SHINBONE TIBIA
Yoga position also called padmasana LOTUS
Lion, say, eating island’s man of mystery? CABALIST
New captain, sort who shares powers with others in group pantisocrat
Tree devil cut, being without work, suffering setback sapota
The best-known humanoid in cryptozoology YETI
Special stone this person laid at front of gallery METATE
One’s rapidly going round in space at home, carrying box around SPINAR
Cinematographer who succeeded Jack Asher to work on several Hammer House of Horror films ARTHUR GRANT
Fellow attended by Egyptian soul in military cap chapka
Popular billing for circuses, thought to have first described that of Dan Rice THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Director of Last Tango in Paris Bernardo Bertolucci
The Second World War’s 'Operation Neptune' NORMANDY LANDINGS
SACROSANCT, NOT SUBJECT TO FORFEITURE INALIENABLE
Mountain whose Welsh name is Yr Wyddfa SNOWDON
Another name for the zinfandel grape variety PRIMITIVO
Scotland's manager for the 1998 World Cup in France Craig Brown
Quantities of albumen EGG WHITES
Colloquially, to not have a ____ is to be clueless or uninformed SCOOBY
Game show with the catchphrase 'You get nothing for a pair — not in this game' Play Your Cards Right
Promotional material across the top of a webpage BANNER AD
In Ethiopia, 100 cents make one ____ BIRR
'Oh may I join the choir ____' (George Eliot, later borrowed by Monty Python) INVISIBLE
Explosive group a parent rebuffed AMATOL
Cargo vessel is away, having taken heavy blow bylander
Mum keeps garden tools under trees mahoes
Second of the books featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy Five Go Adventuring Again
Old piece of sculpture in country, base replaced with gold mounting STATUA
A regular dodecahedron and icosahedron both have ____ edges THIRTY
It’s cold in regions … where such trees wouldn’t grow? ARECAS
Current teammate of Lewis Hamilton Valtteri Bottas
HEBRIDEAN ISLAND WHERE GEORGE ORWELL LIVED INTERMITTENTLY AT THE END OF HIS LIFE JURA
A SPADE MAYBE CRUSHING ONE SMALL CREATURE ACARID
Deed admitted by old man to obtain agreements pacta
COURTESAN WHO MARRIED POLITICIAN CHARLES FOX Elizabeth Armistead
PILLAR PUT ATOP CAMBRIDGESHIRE LOCATION NOT LONG AGO LATELY
BEATS STUPID PEOPLE STOTS
US SLANG FOR A DRUG ENFORCEMENT OFFICER NARCO
Irish poet who described himself as a 'daylight atheist' BRENDAN BEHAN
The base eight number system OCTAL
Type of banana eaten after cooking PLANTAIN
Small island backed by superior demigod AITU
Comedy actress who described her waist as 'a bit like an unmarked level crossing' VICTORIA WOOD
PROVINCE WITH MANY PEOPLE LIVING BY RIVER nilots
Cardiff’s 'city within a city' LLANDAFF
ROAST SET TO BE CUT IN LAYERS STRATOSE
Swimmer needs energy crossing lake SALP
Some of those damned turning over in Hell ADES
Seemed to be missing a person with unreliable attendance record? DIDAPPER
CYCLIST WHO WON FOUR OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS IN 2012 AND 2016 LAURA TROTT
Comedian whose response to 'The pen is mightier than the sword' was 'Yes, and considerably easier to write with' MARTY FELDMAN
ONCE EVERY ____ MEANS VERY RARELY, AFTER AN EVENT HELD EVERY 20 YEARS IN LANCASHIRE Preston Guild
At least twenty study on top of house denaries
Name used by a number of anti-Gaddafi radio stations from February 2011 Voice of Free Libya