The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 03 03

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