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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 07 14
The Times Specialist
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Answer
Chemical compound first synthesised by Faraday in 1834
ETHANE
1952 children’s novel by EB White, featuring a pig called Wilbur
Charlotte's Web
Women’s Olympic track and field event last held in 1980
PENTATHLON
Any element of the lanthanide series
RARE EARTH
Agreement from which Albania withdrew in 1968, after the invasion of Czechoslovakia
WARSAW PACT
COMEDIAN SEEN ON MOCK THE WEEK FROM SERIES 3 TO 14
ANDY PARSONS
2010 David Greig play based on events after the defeat of Macbeth
DUNSINANE
Tennis competition between UK and American women, last held in 1989
Wightman Cup
American band who had UK hits including Bring Me to Life and My Immortal
EVANESCENCE
TO ENRICH WITH AN ABILITY OR QUALITY
ENDOW
British athlete who won 400m hurdles gold at the 1992 Olympics
Sally Gunnell
Chancellor of Germany 1982-98
HELMUT KOHL
Name for a place of worship, from Greek for “assembly”
SYNAGOGUE
AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN VIRGINIA MCMATH
GINGER ROGERS
The ____ Massacre took place in Manchester in 1819
PETERLOO
GREEK PLAYWRIGHT, A GENERAL IN THE 440BC SIEGE OF SAMOS
SOPHOCLES
The stopping of legal action by a judge, or voluntary withdrawal by the plaintiff
NONSUIT
Actress widely regarded as the first “Bond girl”
Ursula Andress
“History begins in novel and ends in ____” (Thomas Macaulay)
ESSAY
County town once called Colonia Glevum Nervensis
GLOUCESTER
IMAGINARY SOURCE OF FEAR
BUGABOO
The last completed novel of George Eliot
DANIEL DERONDA
In the ____; eventually
LONG RUN
FOUNDER OF THE FIRST PERSIAN EMPIRE
CYRUS THE GREAT
IN HAWAII, A ROOFED PATIO OFTEN USED AS A LIVING ROOM
LANAI
____ DIRTBAG, A 2000 SINGLE BY WHEATUS
TEENAGE
First two words of the song Chattanooga Choo Choo
PARDON ME
Novel which opens with “A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys”
BRAVE NEW WORLD
City of Morocco which was an English colony, 1661-84 (alternative spelling)
TANGIERS
SKILLS REQUIRED FOR WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
BUSHCRAFT
Region considered to include parts of six Balkan countries
MACEDONIA
“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of ____s” (Steven Wright)
WIDTH
In a press release on June 7, the Financial Conduct Authority announced reforms to “fix a dysfunctional ____ market”
OVERDRAFT
A LEGAL CONTRADICTION
ANTINOMY
NUT FROM A TREE OF THE SAME GENUS AS CASHEW
PISTACHIO
Nocturnal carnivore noted for its “laugh”
HYENA
GERMAN MEASLES
RUBELLA
River which rises in North Yorkshire and flows through Clitheroe and Preston to the Irish Sea
RIBBLE
A POWERFUL EMBRACE, POSSIBLY AS A WRESTLING HOLD
BEAR HUG
The Oxford martyrs were Nicholas Ridley, Thomas Cranmer and ____
Hugh Latimer
Title of Allen Bathurst, Conservative MP for Southampton 1922-29
LORD APSLEY
IN THE ARCHERS, THE ACCENT OF RUTH ARCHER
GEORDIE
A passage of Latin-based text used to demonstrate layout appearance
Lorem Ipsum
Liberian president who resigned in 2003
CHARLES TAYLOR
The snow leopard, a name formerly used for other members of the cat family
OUNCE
An open horse-drawn carriage, named after a disastrous charioteer of Greek myth
PHAETON
The author of Frankenstein
MARY SHELLEY
HM Prison Manchester
STRANGEWAYS