The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 06 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Thoroughfare along the south side of St James’s Park BIRDCAGE WALK
Ernest Hemingway novel about Frederic Henry’s First World War experiences in Italy A FAREWELL TO ARMS
____ DE MACHAUT, FRENCH COMPOSER OF SONGS IN THE 1300S GUILLAUME
Piz Bernina is the highest mountain in the Eastern ____ ALPS
Trophy to be awarded on September 16, 2019 THE ASHES
Painter of Antwerp Cathedral’s The Descent from the Cross RUBENS
& 25A The first woman to sit in the House of Commons [two-word answer] NANCY
Part of the Antarctic Ocean, named after a British navigator WEDDELL SEA
GERMAN CITY WHOSE ZOLLVEREIN COAL MINE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BECAME A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN 2001 ESSEN
____ Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter NATHANIEL
FINLAND, TO THE FINNS SUOMI
Notre Dame’s three ____s survived the fire in April ROSE WINDOW
Edinburgh residence of Scottish monarchs until 1603 HOLYROODHOUSE
New York suburb to the north of the Bronx YONKERS
Racing toboggan on which riders lie on their backs LUGE
The Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 prohibited the import of ____ into the UK Flick-knives
____ were originally played for important people, or sung by lovers for their ladies SERENADES
Palindromic trade name for a machine used to aerate soil ROTAVATOR
French wine made principally from merlot or cabernet sauvignon grapes BORDEAUX RED
Wilhelm ____ is jointly credited for the discovery of calculus LEIBNITZ
Incus ANVIL
Scottish football team from Paisley, “The Buddies” ST MIRREN
English pre-Raphaelite textile designer and writer WILLIAM MORRIS
Justine ____, Belgian tennis player who won the French Open in 2003 and 2005-2007 HENIN
The emperor ____ monkey is supposedly so-called as its “moustache” makes it resemble Wilhelm II TAMARIN
Capital of Morocco, also a Maltese town near Mdina RABAT
RANG THE CHANGES PEALED
INFORMALLY, THE SINGER FOR WHOM NOEL COWARD CREATED THE ROLE OF ADA COCKLE IN THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER TWO TON TESSIE
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY OF THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF REALITY METAPHYSICS
Wind-pollinated hanging flowering spike of various trees CATKIN
“For here / Am I sitting in a ____, / Far above the world” (David Bowie, in Space Oddity) TIN CAN
In 2008, Rebecca ____ became the first British swimmer since 1908 to win two gold medals at the same Olympics ADLINGTON
The odious hypocrite of Molière’s comedy TARTUFFE
Musical direction — “all playing (or singing) together” TUTTI
ACTOR JAMES ____ BUILT THE THEATRE IN LONDON IN 1576 BURBAGE
SAYING ABOUT A CITY, RECORDED BY GOETHE IN HIS ITALIAN JOURNEY SEE NAPLES AND DIE
Composer of Curlew River and The Prince of the Pagodas BENJAMIN BRITTEN
“You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. ____.” (Miles Davis) CHARLIE PARKER
Influential famous folk LUMINARIES
“____ is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings” (Ed Gardner) OPERA
Martyr, later canonised, believed to be the first bishop of Paris DENIS
JOHN CURRY, KATARINA WITT AND SONJA HENIE, FOR EXAMPLE Ice-skaters
See 8D ASTOR
COLLOIDAL DISPERSION OF SOLID OR LIQUID PARTICLES IN A GAS, SUCH AS SMOKE OR FOG AEROSOL
Debut single (and biggest hit) of Mungo Jerry, in 1970 In the Summertime
The first person, in 1935, to fly solo from Hawaii to the US mainland AMELIA EARHART
Bewildered, amazed ASTOUNDED
The world of Enid Blyton’s Noddy books TOYLAND
Irish statesman and philosopher who criticised Britain’s treatment of its American colonies EDMUND BURKE
French port at the mouth of the Seine LE HAVRE