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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 23
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
ANNUAL THOROUGHBRED RACE HELD AT THE RANDWICK RACECOURSE IN SYDNEY
Australian Oaks
RENEWAL OF LICENCE AFTER EXPIRY OR SUSPENSION
REACCREDITATION
Creator of the “gentleman detective” Roderick Alleyn
NGAIO MARSH
YORKSHIRE TOWN WHOSE NEARBY STOCKELD PARK IS NOTED FOR ITS CHRISTMAS ILLUMINATIONS
WETHERBY
From Yiddish, a female gossip or busybody
YENTA
American department store which published the 1939 booklet in which Rudolph the Reindeer first appeared
MONTGOMERY WARD
Actress who played Sally in When Harry Met Sally …
MEG RYAN
The ____ features Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding
Mighty Boosh
Creator of Rip Van Winkle and the idea of Santa’s flying sleigh
WASHINGTON IRVING
Wealthy, derived from the Latin for “flow towards”
AFFLUENT
A TREAD AND A ____ CONSTITUTE A STEP
RISER
Colombia’s most capped goalkeeper and the only one with a clean sheet in a Copa America competition (in 2001)
OSCAR CORDOBA
Italy’s “Christmas Witch”, with a similar role to Santa Claus
La Befana
HOW A FEMALE SHOPPER MAY BE ADDRESSED
MADAM
Frank Sinatra played the eponymous detective in this 1967 film
Tony Rome
“Tony Blair speaks with a passion as yet ____ by the cynicism of office” (The Scotsman, in 1997)
UNMUTILATED
GREEK MUSE OF LYRIC POETRY
ERATO
“I strive to be brief, and I become ____” (Horace)
OBSCURE
Tenzin Gyatso’s title
DALAI LAMA
American equivalent of a unit trust
MUTUAL FUND
Any of the Gilbert and Sullivan works originally presented by the D’Oyly Carte company
SAVOY OPERA
SACRAMENT COMMEMORATING THE LAST SUPPER
EUCHARIST
COLLOQUIALLY, EDIBLE PRODUCE FROM GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOURCES
FRANKENSTEIN FOOD
HAVING AN APPEARANCE CONSIDERED SUITABLE FOR TV
TELEGENIC
The maple genus
ACER
COLLECTION OF RHYMES PUBLISHED IN 1744, CONSIDERED THE FIRST VOLUME FOR CHILDREN
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
A CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION
BAUBLE
Aden Gillett plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the ____’s current production of A Christmas Carol
Royal Shakespeare Company
KEY TO THE RIGHT OF THE HASH SYMBOL ON A STANDARD UK KEYBOARD
ENTER
CITY WHICH HAS DONATED THE CHRISTMAS TREE TRAFALGAR SQUARE SINCE 1947
OSLO
“Scintillate” shares an etymological origin with this Christmas decoration
TINSEL
EPITHET ADDED TO A NAME, AS IN ALEXANDER THE GREAT
AVIGNON
William Makepeace Thackeray’s “novel without a hero”
VANITY FAIR
DEFICIENT, INADEQUATE
SCANTY
SINGER WHOSE ONLY CHRISTMAS-THEMED SINGLE WAS DECEMBER WILL BE MAGIC AGAIN, IN 1979
KATE BUSH
2009 Pat Holden film about a firm of Tranmere Rovers fans
AWAYDAYS
Narrow strips connecting larger land areas
ISTHMI
DOCUMENT LISTING GOODS AND THE AMOUNT DUE FOR PAYMENT
INVOICE
Short-necked jars of ancient Greece
STAMNOI
FESTIVAL FOR WHICH JINGLE BELLS WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN
THANKSGIVING
AN OLD-FASHIONED BRITISH INDICATION OF AGREEMENT
RIGHTY HO
CHINESE SYSTEM OF MEDITATIVE PHYSICAL EXERCISE
TAI CHI
____ dos Santos Aveiro plays for Juventus and Portugal
CRISTIANO RONALDO
FIRMLY FIXED
SECURE
STAGE NAME OF THE FLEMISH SINGER ESTHER LAMBRECHTS
La Esterella
THE ____ WAS A GIFT FROM FRANCE TO THE USA, DEDICATED IN 1886
STATUE OF LIBERTY
IRISH POET WHO WROTE LYRICS FOR THE MINSTREL BOY AND THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
THOMAS MOORE
HOW CHRISTMAS PUDDING IS OFTEN SERVED
FLAMBE
Prefix indicating multiplication by a billion, or by the 30th power of 2
GIGA
FAMILY TITLE MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH CHRISTMAS
FATHER
THE BRANCHES OF THIS SHRUB, COMMON AROUND LOS ANGELES, ARE USED AS CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
CALIFORNIAN HOLLY
Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile
SANTOLINA
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS CENTRE AROUND THE JAFFA AREA OF THIS ISRAELI CITY
TEL AVIV
In words attributed to Lord Acton, “All power corrupts … and absolute power is even ____”
NICER
In an elaborately decorated style
ORNATELY
Scottish singer who appeared in the Morrisons 2007 Christmas advertising campaign
LULU