The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 09 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
On the ____ means taking part in political campaign speech-making STUMP
Footballer who scored a total of 141 goals for Arsenal, Manchester City, and Sunderland Niall Quinn
Family of rodents which includes squirrels sciuridae
Italian fans, especially those of Ferrari’s Formula One team TIFOSI
Great brightness, or a flood of light EFFULGENCE
Hat named after the eponymous heroine of a George du Maurier novel of 1894 TRILBY
Former Leicester City manager, currently first team coach of Everton Craig Shakespeare
Ford model superseded by the Orion ESCORT
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
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
Cornish river which empties into the Carrick Roads FAL
In law, an excuse for not appearing in court ESSOIN
Instrument used for examining the windpipe BRONCHOSCOPE
Kiran Desai's second novel and 2006 Man Booker Prize winner The Inheritance of Loss
Deceives or, archaically, blindfolds HOODWINKS
Civil rights activist who came to prominence after an incident on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ROSA PARKS
Any of the points on a compass RHUMB
Actor whose most famous role was that of PC George Dixon Jack Warner
British brand of watches, originally made in the Soviet Union, though later in Hong Kong sekonda
Canadian poet and musician whose final album was You Want It Darker LEONARD COHEN
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
Removable data storage medium from which an operating system can be loaded BOOT DISK
PERTAINING TO THE NOSE RHINAL
Un ____ en papier is a French “tissue” mouchoir
Material thrown out, especially from a volcano EJECTA
The tense used in a phrase such as “I thought he had gone” PLUPERFECT
Sultanate whose capital is Muscat OMAN
Usually followed by “out”; in a state of ecstasy blissed
The national parliament of Iceland ALTHING
Tiny African country between Ghana and Benin TOGO
The first ever duty-free shop opened at ____ airport in 1947 SHANNON
The ____ was Henri Rousseau’s last completed work DREAM
MUSCLE RUPTURE HERNIA
Something to do just before running away TURN TAIL
Someone you should not trust A BAD LOT
The positive element of Chinese dualistic cosmology YANG
The fifth Labour of Hercules was to clean the ____ AUGEAN STABLES
The first rank held in a career as a naval officer MIDSHIPMAN
This penitential church service, published in 1544, was the first officially authorised service in English Exhortation and Litany
Abbreviation to which Q and/or I may be added LGBT
Song from the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette TEA FOR TWO
An inflammation of the eye ophthalmitis
A small lump, often seen as unattractive KNOBBLE
A substance used in chemical analysis REAGENT
“I admired anyone who could ____ people” (J G Ballard) UNSETTLE
____ played Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous Jennifer Saunders
Actress who asks Sam to play As Time Goes By in the film Casablanca INGRID BERGMAN
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
Band of connective tissue consisting of collagen SINEW
Russian composer and pianist whose prelude in C sharp minor became so popular that he tired of playing it RACHMANINOFF