The Times Specialist 2019 03 03 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Female badgers	SOWS
In Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Fairfax is Miss Bates's ____	NIECE
The English Language: George Bernard Shaw said there were touches of the philologist and phonetician Henry ____ in Pygmalion	SWEET
The lingua franca of the Hanseatic League	MIDDLE LOW GERMAN
A ____ IS INTENDED TO KEEP RAIN OUT OF A TENT	STORM FLAP
Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is mostly set in ____	PADUA
Drug called diamorphine when prescribed for pain relief	HEROIN
Showjumper Richard ____ won three Olympic gold medals	MEADE
Items offered on Gumtree are often '____'	IN GOOD CONDITION
CLASSICAL LITERATURE: IN TERENCE'S PLAY THE ____, THE TITLE CHARACTER IS A PRESENT FROM PHAEDRIA TO THAIS	EUNUCH
Alloy, usually not including the second metal in its name	NICKEL SILVER
ENGLISH LITERATURE: SCRIPTWRITER WHO CREATED THE DALEKS	terry Nation
'The answer to this is carefully' (Delia Smith on How to ____)	BOIL AN EGG
In 2008, Paul ____ became the first black British manager in England’s top football division	INCE
Foodstuff also known as hardtack	ship's biscuit
Ancient alphabet of the British Isles, now only visible on stone monuments	OGAM
ALLOY OF LEAD, TIN AND ANTIMONY, DEVELOPED BY GUTENBERG	TYPE METAL
The beautiful witch in the 1964-72 TV sitcom Bewitched	SAMANTHA
Possible part of the process of solving a crossword clue	AHA MOMENT
Full, especially with food	REPLETE
Poet like Pindar or Horace	ODIST
____ particles include neutrinos and bosons	SUBATOMIC
____ played male and female school heads in 1950s British comedy films	ALASTAIR SIM
Music: Paired percussion instrument created in Cuba, around 1900	BONGOS
William Ralph ____, Dean of St Paul's cathedral, was nominated three times for the Nobel prize for literature	INGE
Behaving arrogantly or condescendingly	on one's high horse
Avenue where the Tour de France has finished since 1975	Champs-Elysees
Author of the 1947 novel Under the Volcano	MALCOLM LOWRY
Weight redistribution device used in winter walks	SNOWSHOE
Highlight of music hall performances by Wilson, Keppel and Betty	SAND DANCE
A Great Highland ____ usually has three drones	BAGPIPE
____ at End House is the sixth Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot	PERIL
Australian informal expression for 'unimpressive' — a British equivalent with one letter inserted	NOT MUCH CHOP
'I could ____ a Mandrake Restorative Draught in my sleep' (Lockhart, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)	WHIP UP
Food: Writer given most credit for leading British tastes in a new direction, from the 1950s onwards	elizabeth David
Italics in clues indicate one of the seven ____ books owned by today's setter, as a source of the Q and A	OXFORD COMPANION
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: SERIES CREATED BY DR SEUSS, INCLUDING THE CAT IN THE HAT AND GREEN EGGS AND HAM	BEGINNER BOOKS
This pass was the scene of a battle between Persians and outnumbered Greeks	THERMOPYLAE
Large shopping centre just off the M25 near Dartford	BLUEWATER
Labour party leader between Lansbury and Gaitskell	ATTLEE
In Greek myth, Apollo's twin sister	ARTEMIS
Clothing design technique popularised in the late 1960s	tie-dye
Ruling family in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy	GROAN
Informally, an athlete like Emil Zatopek or Mo Farah	DISTANCE RUNNER
2007 Disney film combining live action filming, traditional animation and CGI	ENCHANTED
Marine arthropod often seen in fossil form	TRILOBITE
The Bible: In St Paul's writing, a charismatic preacher	APOSTLE
____ Elkins was the eponymous character in a 1960s film	ALFIE
ONE WHO GIVES UP EASILY	DEFEATIST
Sign that an exchange is ready to initiate a phone call	DIALLING TONE