The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 03 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
____ played Esmerelda in the 1957 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
The ____, popular title of Skrik by Edvard Munch SCREAM
Wading bird of the sandpiper family with long, downcurved bill CURLEW
The original 'It girl' CLARA BOW
Informally, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance WARSAW PACT
Part of the body to which the word “ungual” applies NAIL
'She cut her hair and her ties to the past' is an example of this figure of speech ZEUGMA
The herb Salvia officinalis SAGE
Wonderful to tell (Latin) MIRABILE DICTU
Spanish province between Malaga and Almeria GRANADA
Easternmost point on the Republic of Ireland’s mainland Wicklow Head
Canadian province to the east of Ontario QUEBEC
SMALL RED FRUIT, RICH IN VITAMIN C ROSEHIP
Type of snake which gives birth to live young BOA
Beirut is the capital of this country LEBANON
Greek Muse of tragedy MELPOMENE
'Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Thou art not so unkind / As man's ____' (As You Like It) INGRATITUDE
____ paper may also be used for dictionaries BIBLE
Church partition surmounted by a crucifix, many of which were destroyed in the Reformation ROOD SCREEN
GERMAN SAUSAGE WURST
FICTIONAL DETECTIVE INTRODUCED IN THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES HERCULE POIROT
The last character to speak in Hamlet FORTINBRAS
One setting of the sitcom Gavin & Stacey BILLERICAY
Rappel ABSEIL
TO SOAK IN LIQUID TO LOOSEN FIBRES RET
An ____ order allows search and seizure of evidence without warning ANTON PILLER
Cricketer who captained England in the early 1960s TED DEXTER
The slow ____ is a nocturnal primate LORIS
'Richard of York gave battle in vain' for example MNEMONIC
Alphabet used for Slavonic languages CYRILLIC
Items of furniture, especially in kitchens UNITS
An alternative to 'strength' and 'schnapps' as an eight-letter word with one vowel SCHMALTZ
THE POP DUO OF RICHARD DRUMMIE AND PETER COX GO WEST
Feeding on any kind of food available OMNIVOROUS
1971 novel by V S Naipaul, winner of that year’s Booker Prize IN A FREE STATE
PROTAGONIST OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT'S DEBUT NOVEL EMMA BOVARY
CURRENT TOP-RANKED BRITISH MALE TENNIS PLAYER Kyle Edmund
To do something 'pour ____ les bourgeois' is to attempt to create a sensation EPATER
LOCAL OFFICIAL IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND REEVE
____, CARRICK AND CUMNOCK IS A SCOTTISH PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY CREATED IN 2005 AYR
Pension off SUPERANNUATE
Winterbourne is the suitor in this 1879 novella by Henry James DAISY MILLER
THE CENTIMETRE-GRAM-SECOND UNIT OF WORK ERG
'____ is fine — but human nature is finer' (John Keats) SCENERY
Changing position to gain advantage manoeuvring
The 'man-cub' of stories by Rudyard Kipling MOWGLI
GORDON RAMSAY HAS RECENTLY ADDED A VEGAN ____ TO THE MENU AT HIS BREAD STREET KITCHEN ROAST
A large merchant sailing ship WINDJAMMER
New town in Hertfordshire; birthplace of golfer Nick Faldo WELWYN GARDEN CITY
The oldest male tennis player to play in two Grand Slam finals in the same year KEN ROSEWALL