The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 07 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Pasta 'quills' PENNE
Holst’s tone poem ____ Heath is subtitled 'A Homage to Thomas Hardy' EGDON
THE ____ IS A US NEWSPAPER OR A JOHN PHILIP SOUSA MARCH WASHINGTON POST
Dungeons or cells with access only via the ceiling OUBLIETTES
Hampshire location of the former RAF Coastal Command HQ, and the Hovercraft Museum Lee-on-the-Solent
& 43D. Language of works by Gottfried von Strassburg and Walther von der Vogelweide MIDDLE HIGH
Bearable, in old slang tol-lol
BIG TOP CIRCUS TENT
Musical term for 'very' or 'much' MOLTO
The Jungle Book’s 'Lone Wolf' AKELA
Record producer Phil ____ developed the 'Wall of Sound' style of music production SPECTOR
MIKE ____ IS THE US VICE-PRESIDENT AND A FORMER GOVERNOR OF INDIANA PENCE
Volume two of JS Bach’s Clavier-Übung contained the ____ and the Overture in the French Style ITALIAN CONCERTO
1963 Bill Naughton play, also a film starring Michael Caine ALFIE
Insect genus including many agricultural pests APHIS
TREACHEROUS KING, BOUND BY HERMES TO A WHEEL OF FIRE IXION
Dick ____, able seaman in HMS Pinafore DEADEYE
Part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument since 1965 ELLIS ISLAND
Exercises designed to achieve bodily fitness and grace of movement CALLISTHENICS
In English common law, the parts of a judgement which are not ratio decidendi OBITER DICTA
Palladian-style house in Wiltshire, famed for its gardens STOURHEAD
Essex town where Courtaulds opened a silk mill BRAINTREE
Glamorous star of 1930s films who retired in 1941 and became a recluse GRETA GARBO
Historic alternative name for Shropshire SALOP
At various times, a duchy, kingdom and province in what is now northwestern Germany WESTPHALIA
DESIGNER OF THE WILLOW TEAROOMS IN GLASGOW'S SAUCHIEHALL STREET CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
____'S NOYES FLUDDE IS BASED ON A CHESTER MYSTERY PLAY BENJAMIN BRITTEN
See 4A GERMAN
In Zambia, 100 ngwees KWACHA
IMPRISONMENT FOR POLITICAL OR MILITARY REASONS INTERNMENT
THE ____ PILES WERE NUCLEAR REACTORS BUILT AS PART OF THE UK'S ATOMIC BOMB PROJECT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR WINDSCALE
A SYMPTOM OF RABIES HYDROPHOBIA
GREEK GODDESS OF PEACE IRENE
A legal or parliamentary holiday RECESS
The makers of 007’s DB5 ASTON MARTIN
German-born political theorist Hannah ____ wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism ARENDT
____ ticket, two ideal candidates at an election DREAM
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, singer and civil rights activist NINA SIMONE
Alaskan city which gives its name to a variety of spruce SITKA
THOUSANDTH ANNIVERSARIES millenaries
Future seasonal weather — according to Keats, maybe Autumn mists
UPPER PART OF A PILLAR, SUPPORTING AN ARCH IMPOST
Medieval musical instrument, usually with three strings REBEC
The Siegfried ____ was Wagner’s gift to his wife, Cosima, on her 33rd birthday in 1870 IDYLL
The USA’s 'Pine Tree State' MAINE
WALT ____ WROTE THE POETRY COLLECTION LEAVES OF GRASS WHITMAN
Town centre musicians Street band
Novel narrated by Gilbert Markham about his quest for Helen Graham’s hand in marriage THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL
Morarji ___ was prime minister of India, 1977-9 DESAI
1952 musical rom-com depicting 1920s Hollywood, choreographed by and starring Gene Kelly Singin' in the Rain
The beginning of George Washington's apocryphal admission about a cherry tree I CANNOT TELL A LIE
'Wimbledon' is the All England Lawn Tennis and ____ Club CROQUET
Lord ____, a caricature of an English nobleman in the play Our American Cousin, gave his name to long sideburns DUNDREARY
Fog coming inland from the coast SEA FRET
The biological family of 'true frogs' RANIDAE
Italian tenor who recorded Perfect Symphony with Ed Sheeran last year ANDREA BOCELLI
Extra turns for weaker players in 49 BISQUES
THE JAPANESE DECORATIVE ART OF FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IKEBANA