The Times Specialist 2019 06 30 - Crossword Answers

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

Mexican painter famed for his murals

DIEGO RIVERA

THE ____ IS THE HARBOUR WALL AT LYME REGIS

COBB

“If those to whom power is ____ do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised” (Thomas Paine)

DELEGATED

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

I FEEL GOOD

“____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain” (William Cowper)

DETESTED

“Walk the dog” is a famous trick with this toy

yo-yo