The Times Specialist 2018 12 30 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
This genus in the mint family includes selfheal	PRUNELLA
From Afrikaans, a name for a tree snake	BOOMSLANG
A Japanese dish of soya beans in their pods	EDAMAME
1963 comedy film about a race for stolen cash	it's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Donations by ____ were the basis of an Oxford museum	AUGUSTUS PITT RIVERS
Drummer in the Jazz Messengers, formed in the 1950s	ART BLAKEY
German theologian who resisted Nazism	dietrich Bonhoeffer
____ FISH LIVE IN THE UPPER WATERS OF THE OPEN SEA	PELAGIC
Gilbert and Sullivan’s song A More Humane Mikado has many references to “innocent ____”	MERRIMENT
Home of the Port of London’s main container facility	TILBURY
Benjamin Britten's operetta Paul ____ is about a giant lumberjack in American folklore	BUNYAN
Vyacheslav ____ was the USSR’s foreign minister during the Second World War	MOLOTOV
Curing an addiction to alcohol	DRYING OUT
Dorando ____ finished first in the 1908 Olympic marathon, but was later disqualified	pietri
Georges Gilles de la ____ described the symptoms of a “maladie des tics” in 1885	TOURETTE
Graham James has been bishop of ____ since 1999	NORWICH
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
As a colour on web pages, another name for cyan	AQUA
A GOLF CLUB USED FOR SOME APPROACH SHOTS	MIDIRON
In chemistry, a base that dissolves in water	ALKALI
The slow section of a Hungarian csardas	LASSU
To make a howl-like sound with a trilling quality	ULULATE
Greek letter on the UK Supreme Court’s official badge	OMEGA
Maurice ____ was a French painter of cityscapes, especially of Montmartre, where he was born	UTRILLO
Middle English name for a type of salamander	EFT
Proverbially, still waters ____	run deep
Physicist best known for his uncertainty principle	werner Heisenberg
THE ____ MOUNTAINS ARE THE HIGHEST RANGE IN THE CARPATHIANS	TATRA
Permanent bending of fingers, experienced by about 20 per cent of people over 65 in the UK	dupuytren's contracture
Place providing care and recreation facilities for those not fully independent	DAY CENTRE
New Mexico city best known for a UFO “incident” in 1947	ROSWELL
19th-century convoy of US pioneers	WAGON TRAIN
A ceremonial entrance to the City of London until 1878	TEMPLE BAR
A scapegoat	FALL GUY
“... we never really die; we continue as part of ____” (George Lucas)	THE FORCE
Another name for a duvet	continental quilt
1983 Ryan Paris song, inspired by a 1960 Italian film	DOLCE VITA
A colony of white ants	termitary
A figure skating jump not named after anyone	TOE LOOP
11 elements are ____ at room temperature	GASES
RUN FASTER THAN A RIVAL IN THE HOME STRAIGHT	OUTSPRINT
A Riley ____ was a more conventional-looking Mini	ELF
Ancient Greek city on the island of Santorini, abandoned after a volcanic eruption	THERA
A 1950s and 1960s series of spotters’ guides for children	i-spy
Antiphon sometimes sung during a eucharist service	INTROIT
“... and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves ____” (Genesis 3:7)	APRONS
ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE COLORADO RIVER, THE MOST VISITED AREA OF GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK	SOUTH RIM
The “Sprint” version of this event includes a 5km run	TRIATHLON
The fibre used to make hessian cloth	JUTE
The first airline to use “Speedbird” as a call sign	BOAC
Thomas Hardy novel or a quote from Gray’s Elegy	FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
INDICATION THAT SWIMMING IS DANGEROUS, OR AN OUTDOOR SHOOTING RANGE IS IN USE	RED FLAG
ON A RADIO, THE A IN AM	AMPLITUDE
LETTERS ON A FLAG ALSO SHOWING THE CROSS OF ST GEORGE WITH A BLUE BORDER, AND A CROWN AND ANCHOR	rnli
2016 HORROR FILM ABOUT A MAN WITH 23 PERSONALITIES	SPLIT
The plant sweetbrier; also the Canterbury Tales prioress	EGLANTINE
The snowman in a Christmas song first recorded by Gene Autry in 1950	FROSTY
Tundra, steppe and savannah	PLAINS
Pat and ____ is a 1952 romantic comedy starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy	MIKE
Description of copy protection or some naval patrols	anti-piracy