The Times Specialist 2019 03 10 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Short name for a polynucleotide with a relatively small number of nucleotides	OLIGO
Sea-shell whose plural can be spelt with an unexpectedly missing 'e'	CONCH
1987 lead single from the U2 album The Joshua Tree	WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
A self-replicating software virus	WORM
2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
'… a spirit too delicate / To act her ____ and abhorred commands' (The Tempest)	EARTHY
THE GOLDEN ____ IS THE FIRST RELIC ACQUIRED BY INDIANA JONES IN RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK	IDOL
SEVERE PROTEIN MALNUTRITION OFTEN AFFECTING NEWLY WEANED CHILDREN, MOST COMMON IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA	KWASHIORKOR
FILM TITLE SHARED BY BUSTER KEATON IN 1925 AND THE MARX BROTHERS IN 1940	GO WEST
IN PETER PAN, CAPTAIN HOOK'S BO'SUN	SMEE
STAR OF THE 1990 FILM CYRANO DE BERGERAC	GERARD DEPARDIEU
CHARACTER SPURNED BY JOHN WILLOUGHBY IN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY	MARIANNE DASHWOOD
THIRD HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD	KANGCHENJUNGA
CLARIFIED PIG FAT	LARD
Old Testament book of 21 verses, mainly about the downfall of Edom	OBADIAH
Informally, a French infantryman of the First World War	POILU
Marine fish of the Labridae family	WRASSE
ACTIVITY WHICH MAY MAKE USE OF HEDDLES AND TREADLES	WEAVING
On its website, the ____ claims to be 'America's longest-standing civil rights organization'	NRA
Second of TS Eliot's Four Quartets	EAST COKER
According to a Virgil epic poem, a Trojan ancestor of the Romans	AENEAS
Lead character in the Millennium novels of Stieg Larsson	LISBETH SALANDER
Venice's market district	RIALTO
Various early Scottish kings were buried on the island of ____	IONA
Concentrated extract of active constituents	ESSENCE
A newspaper, especially one regarded as inferior	RAG
Anne Frank died of this disease	TYPHUS
Chemical element, atomic number 33	ARSENIC
Sticky substance, or sentimentality	GOO
CAPITAL OF THE FORMER DUCHY OF LORRAINE	NANCY
THE FAMILY OF CARPET BEETLES	DERMESTIDAE
2010 ACTION COMEDY FILM STARRING BRUCE WILLIS	RED
COLONEL ____ WAS CREATED BY THE CARTOONIST DAVID LOW	BLIMP
____ PLAYED CATHY IN THE 1968 STEVE MCQUEEN FILM BULLITT	JACQUELINE BISSET
BLONDIE SONG USED IN THE 1980 FILM AMERICAN GIGOLO	CALL ME
SANCTIONED	OKAYED
TWISTING	TORSION
MONTY PYTHON'S PIRANHA BROTHERS WERE BASED ON THE ____ TWINS	KRAY
POUCHES FORMERLY WORN ON THE FRONT OF BREECHES	CODPIECES
Liberal Party politician who served four terms as prime minister	WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Lightly scented perfumes	EAUX DE COLOGNE
ITV sci-fi fantasy series starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum	Sapphire and Steel
Hardened forewings of certain insects, not used to fly	ELYTRA
FORMER MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HOMEBASE AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF WH SMITH	KATE SWANN
EXTREMELY DISTRESSING	TRAGIC
Musical instrument seen on TV in cough sweet advertising	ALPHORN
England’s third smallest city by population	RIPON
Lead guitarist of Steppenwolf until 1969	Michael Monarch
LONDON THOROUGHFARE, HOME TO MADAME TUSSAUDS	MARYLEBONE ROAD
'Enjoyment of the landscape is a ____' (David Hockney)	THRILL
Dense brushwood of the southwestern US	CHAPARRAL
Gains an advantage over (another person)	one-ups

Short name for a polynucleotide with a relatively small number of nucleotides

OLIGO

Sea-shell whose plural can be spelt with an unexpectedly missing 'e'

CONCH

1987 lead single from the U2 album The Joshua Tree

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

A self-replicating software virus

WORM

2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

'… a spirit too delicate / To act her ____ and abhorred commands' (The Tempest)

EARTHY