The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 06 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TRADE NAME FOR THE SEDATIVE DRUG ALSO CALLED QUINALBARBITONE SECONAL
The Ottoman empire’s equivalent of a prime minister GRAND VIZIER
Feudal allegiance FEALTY
POISONOUS GAS USED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR PHOSGENE
____ national park was Tanzania’s first Unesco world heritage site SERENGETI
VIOLET-SCENTED SUBSTANCE USED IN PERFUMERY ORRIS ROOT
Italian actress and daughter of Ingrid Bergman ISABELLA ROSSELLINI
The Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture DEMETER
POLLEX THUMB
SMALL ARACHNID FEEDING ON BLOOD TICK
Shabby hotel or unkempt person FLEABAG
1990S ANTIQUES QUIZ SHOW AIRED ON BBC TWO GOING GOING GONE
A narrow marine passage STRAIT
Clemenceau’s response to Woodrow Wilson’s “____ points” on post-war peace was “____? The good Lord had only ten” FOURTEEN
Phoebe’s identical twin in Friends URSULA
____ HOSTED THE 2002 WINTER OLYMPICS SALT LAKE CITY
A SMALL PIECE OF SOFTWARE WHICH RUNS WITHIN ANOTHER APPLET
Until July 2016, Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory housed the world’s largest radio telescope ARECIBO
IN 2009, ____ MCLEOD WAS THE FIRST BLACK PLAYER TO QUALIFY FOR THE WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP RORY
2004 demolition derby racing game developed by Bugbear Entertainment FLATOUT
A SENIOR EXECUTIVE IN THE FORMER BOARD OF ADMIRALTY SEA LORD
BORN SOLOMON COHEN, A STAR OF THE CARRY ON FILMS SID JAMES
Ritualistic martial art, literally “way of the sword” KENDO
Latin word used in an abbreviated form when citing a work already cited IBIDEM
Sesame Street’s saxophone-playing owl HOOTS
“Enthusiasm is the ____ of man; it is the passing of the human to the divine” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) HEIGHT
Singer of Arcade, winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest DUNCAN LAURENCE
Fermented rye drink, sold from tanks in Russian city streets KVASS
EM Forster novel containing the line “Adventures do occur, but not punctually” A PASSAGE TO INDIA
BBC sitcom which starred Robert Lindsay as “Wolfie” CITIZEN SMITH
Sugar-refining equipment which raises liquid by air or steam pressure monte-jus
ACTOR WHO PLAYED LUKEWARM IN THE SITCOM PORRIDGE Christopher Biggins
A plant of the Euphrasia genus, used by herbalists EYEBRIGHT
The three days before Ash Wednesday SHROVETIDE
Location of Italy’s busiest airport FIUMICINO
____ in Tunisia is one of the cities labelled as Islam’s fourth holiest KAIROUAN
LATIN AMERICAN PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT MADE FROM A GOURD GUIRO
Condition affecting social communication and interaction AUTISM
Echo, ____, Hotel GOLF
To “lay by the ____” is to put (someone) in fetters HEELS
FRENCH-BORN PIRATE WHO HELPED TO DEFEND NEW ORLEANS FROM THE BRITISH IN THE FINAL BATTLE OF THE WAR OF 1812 JEAN LAFITTE
A ____ aims to achieve socialism by gradual rather than revolutionary means FABIAN
A village in the Netherlands or South Africa DORP
Natural covering such as skin or exoskeleton INTEGUMENT
STUPOR-PRODUCING DRUG NARCOTIC
Original presenter, for 25 years, of University Challenge Bamber Gascoigne
A name for a pompous individual, apparently originated by Rudyard Kipling little tin god
In cell cytoplasm, organelles which store and release energy MITOCHONDRIA