The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 02 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
1992 book by Nick Hornby, originally subtitled A Fan’s Life FEVER PITCH
Cocked hat with three-pointed brim TRICORN
Musical instrument descended from the shawm OBOE
Fragrant resin from trees of the Burseraceae family ELEMI
CURRENT MANAGER OF THE ITALIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM ROBERTO MANCINI
Hinduism’s equivalent of ambrosia AMRITA
Beatles song covered by Ferry Aid in 1987 LET IT BE
Croatian football team whose home ground is the Stadion Maksimir DINAMO ZAGREB
Barnaby Rudge’s pet raven GRIP
Flightless bird similar to the ostrich RHEA
American department store which introduced the world’s first designer shopping bag, in 1961 Bloomingdale's
£25 (slang) PONY
MORE DEVIOUS SNEAKIER
A demagogue rabble-rouser
WESTERN END OF THE ORIGINAL PONY EXPRESS ROUTE SACRAMENTO
PART OF A CHURCH AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE NAVE TRANSEPT
A semi-precious variety of olivine PERIDOT
US state capital named after native Americans, none of whose federally recognised tribes live in that state CHEYENNE
THE CAPITAL OF BANGLADESH DHAKA
Artist whose works include Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 Tracey Emin
The I of IPO INITIAL
GARY CHERONE IS THE LEAD SINGER OF THIS ROCK BAND EXTREME
1981 submarine film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen DAS BOOT
1955 OSCAR WINNER, FOR HIS LEAD ROLE IN MARTY ERNEST BORGNINE
Author of A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ALFRED WAINWRIGHT
Newland Archer's love interest in The Age of Innocence ELLEN OLENSKA
ORIGINALLY, THE AREA OF LAND A YOKE OF OXEN COULD PLOUGH IN ONE DAY ACRE
SIR HENRY PERCY, IN HENRY IV, PART 1 HOTSPUR
City most affected by the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995 KOBE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE POET ROBERT GRAVES Good-Bye to All That
Queen known as the 'grandmother of Europe' VICTORIA
Sitcom starring Robert Lindsay as the leader of the Tooting Popular Front CITIZEN SMITH
VACUUM TUBE WHICH WAS THE FIRST PRACTICAL ELECTRONIC AMPLIFIER TRIODE
BODY OF WATER SEPARATING TASMANIA FROM THE AUSTRALIAN MAINLAND BASS STRAIT
Straight line which touches a curve TANGENT
This month, The Times reported that Steven Gerrard has launched a ____ brand with a store in Liverpool MENSWEAR
____ EROSION IS CAUSED BY ANIMALS ZOOGENIC
COMEDY DRAMA SERIES OF THE EARLY 1990S STARRING STEPHEN FRY AND HUGH LAURIE Jeeves and Wooster
Actor named by Prince Charles as his favourite in 2017 ANTONY SHER
SPOUSAL VERSE BY EDMUND SPENSER, IN HONOUR OF TWO DAUGHTERS OF THE EARL OF WORCESTER PROTHALAMION
JAPANESE CITY WHOSE INTERNATIONAL STADIUM HOSTED THE 2002 WORLD CUP FINAL YOKOHAMA
Author of the 1974 Booker Prize winning novel Holiday Stanley Middleton
An ____ object is outside the Milky Way EXTRAGALACTIC
LOCH KATRINE IS IN THIS POPULAR TOURIST AREA OF SCOTLAND The Trossachs
'All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no ____ sing a song' (Louis Armstrong) HORSE
Theme music to the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop Axel F
Form of physical exercise known as a side-straddle hop in the US military STAR JUMP
A sheep not doing what sheep are renowned for BELLWETHER