The Times Specialist 2018 09 30 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Ford model superseded by the Orion	ESCORT
Former Leicester City manager, currently first team coach of Everton	Craig Shakespeare
German composer and trumpet virtuoso, his name very similar to that of a German statesman who won the 1971 Nobel peace prize	Willi Brandt
German director of films including Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas	WIM WENDERS
Hat named after the eponymous heroine of a George du Maurier novel of 1894	TRILBY
Great brightness, or a flood of light	EFFULGENCE
Breakwater, typically of wood, extending from a beach into the sea	GROYNE
Energy company which sponsored the FA Cup from the 2006/7 season to 2010/11	EON
Early ____s are the second group in Everett Rogers’s “diffusion of innovations” theory	ADOPTER
The tense used in a phrase such as “I thought he had gone”	PLUPERFECT
The national parliament of Iceland	ALTHING
Sultanate whose capital is Muscat	OMAN
Usually followed by “out”; in a state of ecstasy	blissed
Un ____ en papier is a French “tissue”	mouchoir
MUSCLE RUPTURE	HERNIA
Material thrown out, especially from a volcano	EJECTA
Someone you should not trust	A BAD LOT
The ____ was Henri Rousseau’s last completed work	DREAM
The first ever duty-free shop opened at ____ airport in 1947	SHANNON
Tiny African country between Ghana and Benin	TOGO
This penitential church service, published in 1544, was the first officially authorised service in English	Exhortation and Litany
The first rank held in a career as a naval officer	MIDSHIPMAN
The fifth Labour of Hercules was to clean the ____	AUGEAN STABLES
The positive element of Chinese dualistic cosmology	YANG
Something to do just before running away	TURN TAIL
Removable data storage medium from which an operating system can be loaded	BOOT DISK
Panel or screen placed behind an altar	REREDOS
Phrase conveying surprise when added to a question	ON EARTH
President of France succeeded by Emmanuel Macron	Francois Hollande
Sardinian tower, built between about 1800BC and 700BC	NURAGHE
Deceives or, archaically, blindfolds	HOODWINKS
Civil rights activist who came to prominence after an incident on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama	ROSA PARKS
Canadian poet and musician whose final album was You Want It Darker	LEONARD COHEN
British brand of watches, originally made in the Soviet Union, though later in Hong Kong	sekonda
Actor whose most famous role was that of PC George Dixon	Jack Warner
PERTAINING TO THE NOSE	RHINAL
Any of the points on a compass	RHUMB
Family of rodents which includes squirrels	sciuridae
Footballer who scored a total of 141 goals for Arsenal, Manchester City, and Sunderland	Niall Quinn
Italian fans, especially those of Ferrari’s Formula One team	TIFOSI
On the ____ means taking part in political campaign speech-making	STUMP
Kiran Desai's second novel and 2006 Man Booker Prize winner	The Inheritance of Loss
Instrument used for examining the windpipe	BRONCHOSCOPE
Cornish river which empties into the Carrick Roads	FAL
In law, an excuse for not appearing in court	ESSOIN
____ played Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous	Jennifer Saunders
“I admired anyone who could ____ people” (J G Ballard)	UNSETTLE
A substance used in chemical analysis	REAGENT
Ancient Amerindian people of the south-western US, who flourished between c 200BC and AD1500	ANASAZI
1949 collection of articles by Albert Einstein	The World As I See It
1993 film starring Sylvester Stallone as mountain rescuer Gabe Walker	CLIFFHANGER
Song from the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette	TEA FOR TWO
Band of connective tissue consisting of collagen	SINEW
An inflammation of the eye	ophthalmitis
Actress who asks Sam to play As Time Goes By in the film Casablanca	INGRID BERGMAN
A small lump, often seen as unattractive	KNOBBLE
Abbreviation to which Q and/or I may be added	LGBT
Russian composer and pianist whose prelude in C sharp minor became so popular that he tired of playing it	RACHMANINOFF