The Times Specialist 2019 06 30 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Portuguese footballer sometimes known as “O Rei” (The King)	EUSEBIO
Resembling a mythical journey into the underworld	ORPHEAN
River which formed the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul	RUBICON
The bracketed part in the title of James Brown’s most successful single	I FEEL GOOD
The only UK No 1 single for Pink Floyd	ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber	J B Morton
In logic and mathematics, the meaning of three dots forming an upward-pointing triangle	THEREFORE
The term “____ fiction” was popularised by HP Lovecraft, one of its best-known exponents	WEIRD
Eastenders character Beppe ____ had relationships with Grant Mitchell’s wife and sister	Di Marco
Simon ____ co-founded the avant-pop Penguin Cafe Orchestra	JEFFES
Items placed in footwear for warmth or comfort	INSOLES
City destroyed by Vesuvius in AD79	POMPEII
Léo ____ wrote the music for the ballet Coppélia	DELIBES
North American animal also called “wapiti”	ELK
Mushroom which contains the drug psilocybin	LIBERTY CAP
Mexican painter famed for his murals	DIEGO RIVERA
THE ____ IS THE HARBOUR WALL AT LYME REGIS	COBB
WRITER OF THE BOOK AND LYRICS FOR SPAMALOT	ERIC IDLE
MUSICAL COMPOSITION PLAYED IN A SLOW, DIGNIFIED MANNER	LARGO
IN GOLF, WITH A SCORE HIGHER THAN REGULATION	OVER PAR
PATRICK ____ CREATED PLANS FOR REBUILDING POST-WAR LONDON	ABERCROMBIE
MADRID STADIUM WHICH HOSTED THE 2019 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL	Wanda Metropolitano
NAVELS	UMBILICI
Occurring throughout a metropolis	CITYWIDE
At or near the stern of a vessel	AFT
A tiny amount; ninth letter of the Greek alphabet	IOTA
“____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain” (William Cowper)	DETESTED
1950s pop genre often using unconventional instruments	SKIFFLE
“Walk the dog” is a famous trick with this toy	yo-yo
“If those to whom power is ____ do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised” (Thomas Paine)	DELEGATED
FOODSTUFF THAT HMS BOUNTY WAS MEANT TO TAKE FROM TAHITI TO THE WEST INDIES, ON THE VOYAGE THAT ENDED IN MUTINY	BREADFRUIT
SPRAY BLOWN FROM THE CRESTS OF WAVES	SPINDRIFT
Chrysotile is the most common form of this incombustible material	ASBESTOS
Boxer who sparred with Rocky Balboa in Rocky II	ROBERTO DURAN
Character played by Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix films	TRINITY
A ____ CIPHER ENCODES LETTERS IN PAIRS RATHER THAN SINGLY	DIGRAPHIC
BBC One crime drama starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby	Inspector George Gently
Common name for a plant of the genus Geum	AVENS
Greek tragedian whose works include Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus Rex	SOPHOCLES
Gothic arch; a cumulative frequency graph in statistics	OGIVE
French stew, especially of beef, traditionally made in a terracotta pot	DAUBE
Duran Duran single which preceded Ordinary World	SERIOUS
A SEA MIST OF THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND	HAAR
Director of the 1972 film The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola
Female gymnast who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games	Claudia Fragapane
Neutral vowel sound represented by the letter Y in Welsh	SCHWA
Son of King Priam ambushed and killed by Achilles	TROILUS
PHILIP PULLMAN TRILOGY CONSISTING OF NORTHERN LIGHTS, THE SUBTLE KNIFE, AND THE AMBER SPYGLASS	HIS DARK MATERIALS
Word game also called “capping the rhyme”	CRAMBO
TV “dragon”, chairman of Millwall FC, 1995-2007	Theo Paphitis

Portuguese footballer sometimes known as “O Rei” (The King)

EUSEBIO

Resembling a mythical journey into the underworld

ORPHEAN

River which formed the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul

RUBICON

The bracketed part in the title of James Brown’s most successful single

I FEEL GOOD

The only UK No 1 single for Pink Floyd

ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber

J B Morton