The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The plant sweetbrier; also the Canterbury Tales prioress EGLANTINE
1963 comedy film about a race for stolen cash it's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
19th-century convoy of US pioneers WAGON TRAIN
Tundra, steppe and savannah PLAINS
Drummer in the Jazz Messengers, formed in the 1950s ART BLAKEY
Curing an addiction to alcohol DRYING OUT
Physicist best known for his uncertainty principle werner Heisenberg
RUN FASTER THAN A RIVAL IN THE HOME STRAIGHT OUTSPRINT
Vyacheslav ____ was the USSR’s foreign minister during the Second World War MOLOTOV
Georges Gilles de la ____ described the symptoms of a “maladie des tics” in 1885 TOURETTE
Ancient Greek city on the island of Santorini, abandoned after a volcanic eruption THERA
A GOLF CLUB USED FOR SOME APPROACH SHOTS MIDIRON
THE ____ MOUNTAINS ARE THE HIGHEST RANGE IN THE CARPATHIANS TATRA
ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE COLORADO RIVER, THE MOST VISITED AREA OF GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK SOUTH RIM
Donations by ____ were the basis of an Oxford museum AUGUSTUS PITT RIVERS
Thomas Hardy novel or a quote from Gray’s Elegy FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
A scapegoat FALL GUY
A ceremonial entrance to the City of London until 1878 TEMPLE BAR
A Riley ____ was a more conventional-looking Mini ELF
The fibre used to make hessian cloth JUTE
Dorando ____ finished first in the 1908 Olympic marathon, but was later disqualified pietri
Gilbert and Sullivan’s song A More Humane Mikado has many references to “innocent ____” MERRIMENT
2016 HORROR FILM ABOUT A MAN WITH 23 PERSONALITIES SPLIT
Antiphon sometimes sung during a eucharist service INTROIT
German theologian who resisted Nazism dietrich Bonhoeffer
The “Sprint” version of this event includes a 5km run TRIATHLON
A Japanese dish of soya beans in their pods EDAMAME
INDICATION THAT SWIMMING IS DANGEROUS, OR AN OUTDOOR SHOOTING RANGE IS IN USE RED FLAG
Permanent bending of fingers, experienced by about 20 per cent of people over 65 in the UK dupuytren's contracture
The first airline to use “Speedbird” as a call sign BOAC
In chemistry, a base that dissolves in water ALKALI
Home of the Port of London’s main container facility TILBURY
A colony of white ants termitary
Greek letter on the UK Supreme Court’s official badge OMEGA
ON A RADIO, THE A IN AM AMPLITUDE
Middle English name for a type of salamander EFT
“... we never really die; we continue as part of ____” (George Lucas) THE FORCE
New Mexico city best known for a UFO “incident” in 1947 ROSWELL
To make a howl-like sound with a trilling quality ULULATE
Pat and ____ is a 1952 romantic comedy starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy MIKE
LETTERS ON A FLAG ALSO SHOWING THE CROSS OF ST GEORGE WITH A BLUE BORDER, AND A CROWN AND ANCHOR rnli
As a colour on web pages, another name for cyan AQUA
This genus in the mint family includes selfheal PRUNELLA
Proverbially, still waters ____ run deep
11 elements are ____ at room temperature GASES
In The ____, Donald Norman writes: “If I were placed in the cockpit of [an] airliner, my inability to perform well would neither surprise nor bother me. But why should I have trouble with doors, light switches, water faucets and stoves?” DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS
Place providing care and recreation facilities for those not fully independent DAY CENTRE
____ FISH LIVE IN THE UPPER WATERS OF THE OPEN SEA PELAGIC
A figure skating jump not named after anyone TOE LOOP
A 1950s and 1960s series of spotters’ guides for children i-spy
Benjamin Britten's operetta Paul ____ is about a giant lumberjack in American folklore BUNYAN
Description of copy protection or some naval patrols anti-piracy
Maurice ____ was a French painter of cityscapes, especially of Montmartre, where he was born UTRILLO
“... and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves ____” (Genesis 3:7) APRONS
The snowman in a Christmas song first recorded by Gene Autry in 1950 FROSTY
Graham James has been bishop of ____ since 1999 NORWICH
1983 Ryan Paris song, inspired by a 1960 Italian film DOLCE VITA
From Afrikaans, a name for a tree snake BOOMSLANG
The slow section of a Hungarian csardas LASSU
Another name for a duvet continental quilt