The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 03 17

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