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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 05 05
The Times Specialist
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____ and Pembroke are the only two Oxford University colleges on squares of the same name
ORIEL
A short-sighted person
MYOPE
43A would have danced with Chris ____ if he had won his 1976 Wimbledon final
EVERT
A RESIDENT OF BAGHDAD
IRAQI
John Aubrey’s collection of short biographies about contemporaries such as Hobbes and Milton
BRIEF LIVES
____ directed the films Vera Drake and Mr Turner
MIKE LEIGH
Informally, an attraction at the southern end of the A23
Brighton Pier
The 17th century in French art and literature
GRAND SIECLE
A “cabbage” butterfly or a major pig breed
LARGE WHITE
The Duke of Medina Sidonia commanded ____ from his flagship, the Sao Martinho
THE ARMADA
____’s first role with Hammer Film Productions was in The Curse of Frankenstein
CHRISTOPHER LEE
Soap in which early characters were Helen Daniels, Des Clarke and Nell Mangel
NEIGHBOURS
The Holy Grail is said to have been hidden in the Chalice Well at the foot of this Somerset hill
Glastonbury Tor
French city famed for enamelware, and later, porcelain
LIMOGES
1999 Richard Curtis film starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant
NOTTING HILL
“What is hope? Nothing but paint on the face of ____” (Byron)
EXISTENCE
Part of a sail that may be rolled up to reduce its area
REEF
Inflatable plastic or rubber mattresses
LILOS
Large sandpiper with a slightly upturned bill
GREENSHANK
The last steam engine built by British Railways
EVENING STAR
THE FOURTH 007 FILM STARRING SEAN CONNERY
THUNDERBALL
European chief negotiator for Britain’s exit from the EU
MICHEL BARNIER
A logical basis for a course of action
RATIONALE
A tiny amount of something like doubt or evidence
SCINTILLA
EDIBLE, YELLOW, FUNNEL-SHAPED MUSHROOMS
CHANTERELLES
Musical instrument, often used to convey a pastoral mood
COR ANGLAIS
Using very modern technology
Space-age
Art retailer, noted for iconic posters of the 1970s and 1980s
ATHENA
Basil ____ won the 1950 design competition for the new Coventry Cathedral
SPENCE
The successor to Enda Kenny as taoiseach, in June 2017
Leo Varadkar
One concerned with the classification of diseases
NOSOLOGIST
Plant of the Veronica genus, with small blue or pinkish white flowers
SPEEDWELL
The water boa
ANACONDA
NUMBER OF YARDS IN A CHAIN
twenty-two
London’s ____ has a zoo, theatre, lake and bandstand
REGENTS PARK
VARIETY OF PEACH WITH A SMOOTH SKIN
NECTARINE
Citadel built after the 1745 Jacobite rising, guarding the sea approaches to Inverness
FORT GEORGE
Basil ___, the Cape Coloured cricketer who played for Worcestershire, and England from 1966 to 1972
DOliviera
The ____ Sea is bounded by mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica
TYRRHENIAN
Winner of the 1972 US Open and 1973 French Open
ILIE NASTASE
Polish composer whose Venetian Games is his most experimental piece, using “aleatory counterpoint”
LUTOSLAWSKI
A 64ft “Contra Trombone” in Sydney Town Hall is one of the world’s longest ____s
ORGAN PIPE
Translation of the second word of Caesar’s attributed comment “Veni, vidi, vici”
I SAW
____ Wheel, the sister organisation of Rotary International
INNER
Strict secretiveness within a community
Wall of silence
Large duck of the merganser genus
GOOSANDER
Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots
SNAKEWEED
One who believes that natural objects have desires and intentions
ANIMIST