The Times Specialist 2019 04 21 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
A BUILDING INSCRIPTION, OR A QUOTATION STARTING A CHAPTER	EPIGRAPH
Informally, a level on a scale	NOTCH
A voile of silk or other thin fabric	NINON
Francesco ____ was a major composer of early madrigals	CORTECCIA
Deceitful sorcerer of The Faerie Queene	ARCHIMAGO
Valley in which, according to the Bible, kings of Judah sacrificed children	GEHENNA
Long-standing magazine reviewing classical recordings	GRAMOPHONE
“The ____ of the goat is the bounty of God” (William Blake)	LUST
“The people are civilised, friendly and highly educated. Even my ____ had an MBA” (David Cameron, about Macedonia)	TOUR GUIDE
American actor whose roles included that of the recording engineer in Five Easy Pieces	Richard Stahl
“I think I’m gonna be sad” starts this Beatles song	TICKET TO RIDE
Author of The Cherry Orchard	ANTON CHEKHOV
“Being a ____ has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted” (Sammy Davis Junior)	STAR
Anything north of Watford Gap	OWT
London thoroughfare connecting the Strand and Ludgate Hill	FLEET STREET
Football league club founded in 2004	MK Dons
Formula One driver whose best finish to date was fourth in the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix	Carlos Sainz
French phrase meaning “as a last resort” or “at worst”	au pis aller
1967 pop art piece by David Hockney	A BIGGER SPLASH
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge is Prince Andrew’s ____	great-niece
Racing circuit called “the Green Hell” by Jackie Stewart	nurburgring
To distribute printed information to people or homes	LEAFLET
A prisoner or patient	INMATE
Ancient name for the most northerly inhabited place	THULE
London suburb between Richmond and Putney	East Sheen
BBC cookery show currently narrated by India Fisher	MASTERCHEF
Comedian who said “I get credit all the time for things I never said”	GROUCHO MARX
Crime drama series whose theme tune was Eye Level	VAN DER VALK
Between Bootes and Leo, the only modern constellation named after a real person	COMA BERENICES
A poison which is destructive to nerve tissue	NEUROTOXIN
MELODIOUS, RELATING TO A SINGER AND MUSICIAN OF GREEK MYTH	ORPHEAN
SHROPSHIRE TOWN CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH ABRAHAM DARBY	IRONBRIDGE
Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor ____ is Completely Fine won the 2017 Costa debut novel award	OLIPHANT
The common people, from Greek for “the many”	HOI POLLOI
In the UK, this facial birth defect is normally repaired in the first year of life	CLEFT PALATE
Informally, The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team	RED ARROWS
Kyiv is the capital of this country	UKRAINE
Sports car launched in 2008, codenamed Project Eagle	Lotus Evora
Italianate village just outside Snowdonia National Park	PORTMEIRION
Sanskrit hymn collection, one of Hinduism’s four canonical texts	RIG VEDA
CREDO	I BELIEVE
____ fertilisation creates test-tube babies	IN VITRO
Winter sports resort of the Cairngorms National Park	AVIEMORE
The only female prime minister of France	EDITH CRESSON
The common ____ is one of India’s most dangerous snakes	KRAIT
The common name for Mustela erminea	STOAT
Horse which Caligula reputedly intended to make a consul	INCITATUS
The cities of Seattle and Tacoma are on Washington state’s ____ Sound	PUGET
Swedish footballer who has played for Ajax, Juventus, Barcelona and Manchester United	ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC
Robert Gubby, aka Bobby ___, is a member of Bucks Fizz	GEE