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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 02
The Times Specialist
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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