The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 05 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
LORD SEPULCHRAVE, STEERPIKE AND BARQUENTINE APPEAR IN THIS FANTASY FICTION SERIES GORMENGHAST
To make Saxon blue dye, dissolve ____ in concentrated sulphuric acid INDIGO
TV SERIES FEATURING THE MEMBERS OF A COMEDY TROUPE OF THE SAME NAME, FORMED IN 1995 THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN
Level of proficiency in Japanese martial arts DAN
Causing cold or freezing FRIGORIFIC
2006 film starring Jason Statham as Chev Chelios CRANK
ACCESSORY MOUNTING ON A CAMERA SHOE
“Fools are my ____, let satire be my song” (Byron) THEME
“War should never be entered upon until every ____ of peace has failed” (US president William McKinley) AGENCY
Alternative to Spar as a “symbol group” supplying convenience shops in the British Isles MACE
American TV host who married Portia de Rossi in 2008 ELLEN DEGENERES
Bespectacled character in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs DOC
Comedian often seen with a flying helmet and goggles ROY CHUBBY BROWN
Create a word like “chnage” or “Cathoilic” MISTYPE
Edward Lear nonsense poem inspired by the ruler of a mountainous area in present-day Pakistan The Akond of Swat
Greek muse often depicted holding a musical instrument ERATO
The best-selling type of salad dressing in the US since 1992 RANCH
The ____ of Cats — a difficult matter according to a TS Eliot poem NAMING
The ____ virus causes a fever, endemic in west Africa LASSA
Tradename for hydrocarbon formerly used in refrigeration FREON
____ Blofeld, an arch-enemy of James Bond ERNST
In Dostoevsky’s The Devils, the novelist Karmazinov is a caricature of Ivan ____ TURGENEV
The Battle of Laing’s ____ took place in the first Boer war NEK
Statesman imprisoned by Charles I for advocating parliamentary rights Sir John Eliot
South African opener, the only batsman to carry his bat in two test matches in the same calendar year Dean Elgar
Small harpsichord with obliquely set strings SPINET
Settlers in southern Britain in the late 4th century JUTES
Series of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking Tales
Real name of 3 Down and location of 4 Down ROYSTON VASEY
IRISH JOCKEY WHO IN 1998 BECAME THE YOUNGEST TO WIN A CLASSIC RACE JAMIE SPENCER
OF PROTESTERS, CONTAINED IN AN ENCLOSED AREA KETTLED
CITY SERVED BY INDIRA GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT DELHI
Membrane enveloping the lungs PLEURA
Lincolnshire village; stage name of stand-up comedian and musician James Rogers Boothby Graffoe
Red (occasionally white) wine of northern Spain RIOJA
Japanese tennis player currently ranked world No 1 NAOMI OSAKA
In the shape of a nail or claw UNGUIFORM
US SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 1921-32, AND CO-FOUNDER OF AN INSTITUTE WHICH IS NOW PART OF A PITTSBURGH UNIVERSITY ANDREW MELLON
MASS OF LYMPHOID TISSUE AT EITHER SIDE OF THE BACK OF THE THROAT PALATINE TONSIL
Serbia’s capital BELGRADE
The second section of this Alexander Pope poem begins “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan” AN ESSAY ON MAN
The first contestant to leave the 2018 series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! NOEL EDMONDS
Green anthropomorphic dinosaur in Nintendo video games YOSHI
Daniel ____ is Nicaragua’s current president ORTEGA
Actress for whom George Bernard Shaw wrote the title role in Saint Joan SYBIL THORNDIKE
Actors employed to play roles in the absence of principals UNDERSTUDIES
King of Judah, succeeded by Jehoshaphat ASA
Lancashire town at the eastern end of the M65 COLNE