The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Wood also known as “African teak” IROKO
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without ____” (W H Auden) WATER
Old-fashioned term for left-handedness sinisterity
CANNABIS SATIVA INDIAN HEMP
Fluid-carrying tube in a plant or animal VAS
1981 film about a paralysed sculptor, adapted from a TV drama and stage play by Brian Clark WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY
THE FINAL STUDIO ALBUM BY THE BEATLES LET IT BE
THE SWEDISH VERSION OF MULLED WINE GLOGG
LATIN-BASED NAME FOR ROCK FRAGMENTS EJECTED FROM A VOLCANO, BETWEEN VOLCANIC BOMBS AND VOLCANIC ASH IN SIZE LAPILLI
WEEDS WITH YELLOW FLOWERS, MILKY JUICE AND EDIBLE LEAVES SOW THISTLES
1990 action film starring Jean-Claude van Damme as a legionnaire LIONHEART
Final word in the text of Puccini’s La Bohème MIMI
A PLAIN COTTON CLOTH CALICO
Athlete whose winning heptathlon score at the 1988 Olympics is still the world record Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee
City in Florida’s Greater Orlando area KISSIMMEE
(Attempted) reconciliation between different religions or philosophies SYNCRETISM
Male chicken fattened for eating CAPON
A sleeveless pullover TANK TOP
WHAT A JUDGE DOES BEFORE THE JURY RETIRES SUM UP
Line behind which a darts player stands OCHE
Jane Austen novel set in the fictional village of Highbury EMMA
Old Testament book about an attempt to exterminate the Jewish nation ESTHER
Title given to a cabinet minister in charge of a department SECRETARY OF STATE
Former Russian gymnast with seven floor, beam, and vault skills named after her NELLIE KIM
One who provokes others to anger NEEDLER
“Love and ____ are the best sweeteners of tea” (Henry Fielding) SCANDAL
LATIN LEGAL TERM FOR TRESPASS WITH FORCE AND VIOLENCE VI ET ARMIS
DIRECTOR OF FILMS INCLUDING LIFE OF PI AND BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN ANG LEE
AGONY AUNT WHOSE AUTOBIOGRAPHY WAS TITLED HOW DID I GET HERE FROM THERE? CLAIRE RAYNER
The first of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels CASINO ROYALE
A pig’s ____ is the source of pork chops LOIN
PIEDMONT PROVINCE NOTED FOR ITS SPARKLING WINE ASTI
ONE OF THE TWO VEGETABLES USED TO MAKE VICHYSSOISE LEEK
Presenter of ITV’s The Big Fight Live, 1984-2010 JIM ROSENTHAL
RACING DRIVER KNOWN AS THE STIG ON TOP GEAR Ben Collins
Eponymous time-traveller, played by Geoffrey Bayldon in a 1970s children’s TV series CATWEAZLE
POETRY COLLECTION BY ARTHUR RIMBAUD, AND A BENJAMIN BRITTEN SONG CYCLE SETTING PARTS OF IT LES ILLUMINATIONS
To soften or smooth EMOLLIATE
COMPUTER FILE EXTENSION FOR PROGRAMS RATHER THAN DATA EXE
Opinion expressed in interviews with members of the public VOX POP
“The smiles of love adorn, — / ____ / Makes countless thousands mourn!” (Robert Burns) man's inhumanity to man
Charles ____ created the cartoon strip Peanuts SCHULZ
____ beat Serena Williams in the 2018 Wimbledon women’s singles final ANGELIQUE KERBER
TITLE GIVEN TO A MUSLIM FIGHTER AGAINST INFIDELS GHAZI
EXEMPT FROM PAYMENT toll-free
Former German figure skater, a judge in one series of Dancing on Ice Katarina Witt
THE MUSE OF EPIC POETRY CALLIOPE
Book identification code, with 13 digits since 2007 ISBN
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, ____” (Winston Churchill) Hoping it will eat him last
Feast day held on November 1 ALL HALLOWS
Tropical tree or the orange food dye derived from it ANNATTO
The trumpet major of Thomas Hardy’s novel John Loveday
THE CURRENT 10 DOWN FOR DEFENCE Gavin Williamson
Largest city in France’s Moselle department METZ
TURN INTO VINEGAR ACETIFY
James single which, in three different versions, charted in 1989, 1991, and 1998 SIT DOWN
Machine often used to clean the exterior of stone buildings SANDBLASTER
A word for a large boat from the Mediterranean, apparently not related to a famous boat of Greek myth ARGOSY