The Times Specialist 2019 06 02 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Ruth’s mother-in-law (Bible)	NAOMI
BBC RADIO ANNOUNCER DUBBED THE GODFATHER OF RADIO 4 BY IMPRESSIONIST GROUP DEAD RINGERS	Brian Perkins
Jewish festival starting on Nissan 15	PASSOVER
ROCK MUSIC GENRE OFTEN USING CONFESSIONAL LYRICS	EMO
From Greek for “many years”, an Eastern Orthodox chant for an individual or the Orthodox community	POLYCHRONION
Guys and Dolls song, a Frank Sinatra signature tune	LUCK BE A LADY
SPICE PRODUCED FROM THE DISTINCTIVE PERICARPS OF ILLICIUM VERUM	STAR ANISE
The most populous borough of New York City	BROOKLYN
MEMBER OF THE MINT FAMILY, RELATED TO OREGANO	THYME
Supporter of complete state supremacy over the church	ERASTIAN
FRONT PART OF THE UPPER OF A SHOE	VAMP
A MILITARY OFFICER BELOW THE RANK OF CAPTAIN	SUBALTERN
CANADIAN SINGER WHOSE DEBUT SINGLE WAS COMPLICATED	AVRIL LAVIGNE
THE PRINCIPLE BEHIND THE UNIVERSE IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY	TAO
IN RUGBY, A LOOSE SCRUM IN WHICH THE BALL IS ON THE GROUND	RUCK
DRUPE	STONE FRUIT
African country bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia	DJIBOUTI
____ DISPLAYS PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL AS YOU WEBSURF	ADWARE
Adding a two-letter word to this boat makes a sauce	KETCH
“… he will be sent on a tour around the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic ____ will follow” (Keir Hardie, five days after the birth of the future Edward VIII)	ALLIANCE
____ played Jacob Marley’s ghost in the 1951 film Scrooge	MICHAEL HORDERN
“I am dying, ____, dying” (Antony and Cleopatra)	EGYPT
A sixpenny bit	TANNER
Assistant who may wear an aiguillette	aide-de-camp
Hormone regulating circadian rhythms, secreted by the pineal gland	MELATONIN
In geometry, one of the lines enclosing an angle	ARM
Of a graphical element, to automatically align with a grid (computing)	SNAP
Pub restaurant chain operated by Mitchells & Butlers	Toby Carvery
River featured in the title of an epic 1957 war film	KWAI
Ruined tower house near Corbridge in Northumberland, associated with the Radclyffe family	Dilston Castle
Standard ____ are one of Belgium’s most successful football clubs	LIEGE
The free i____ app puts Roman Catholic liturgy on your tablet	BREVIARY
Doctor ____ is the third novel in Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire	THORNE
DISTRIBUTARY BRANCH OF THE RHINE WHICH FORMERLY DISCHARGED INTO THE ZUIDERZEE	IJSSEL
PORTRAYED BY ALEXANDER SIDDIG, THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER IN STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE	JULIAN BASHIR
HENRY JAMES NOVEL ABOUT THE DAUGHTER OF BEALE AND IDA FARANGE	What Maisie Knew
A CRICKET PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL ACTION BY A BOWLER OR FIELDER	no-ball
BRITISH HEAVY METAL BAND FRONTED BY IAN HILL	JUDAS PRIEST
FILM DIRECTOR WHO WON OSCARS FOR IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, AND MOONSTRUCK	NORMAN JEWISON
GENERIC AND TRADE NAME OF CURTAIN-SIDED VANS AND LORRIES	TAUTLINER
England and Great Britain hockey captain for 13 years, who won Olympic gold and bronze medals	Kate Richardson-Walsh
Woman’s lace headgear, often with a flap on each side	DUTCH CAP
Final part of the Shakespeare tetralogy which begins with Richard II	HENRY V
English cricketer, main exponent of “bodyline” bowling	HAROLD LARWOOD
1963 FILM STARRING PAUL NEWMAN AS THE HARD-DRINKING, ARROGANT, WOMANISING RANCHER ____ BANNON	HUD
YEVGENY ____ WROTE THE POEM BABI YAR	YEVTUSHENKO
Europe’s longest river	VOLGA
SOMEONE WHO OFTEN USES COMPARISONS IN EXPLANATIONS	ANALOGIST
Parliamo ____?	ITALIANO
Tom Sharpe novel about a proposed motorway	Blott on the Landscape