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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 08 25
The Times Specialist
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Serious condition created by the body’s response to harmful microorganisms
SEPSIS
A South American flightless bird and a satellite of Saturn
RHEA
In limited-overs cricket, a period with fielding restrictions
POWERPLAY
Mexican agave plant, or more commonly, its fibre
SISAL
Amorous outdoor scenes, eg those painted by Watteau
fetes galantes
Born in Bath, a comedian who once played football for Basingstoke Town
RUSSELL HOWARD
____ became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002
Rowan Williams
“With butter” in Italian cuisine, eg in the dish that became Fettucine Alfredo
AL BURRO
Vega is in this constellation
LYRA
James ____ was the BBC’s main reporter on Apollo missions
BURKE
ONE OF THE GODS INVOKED BY SARASTRO IN THE ARIA STARTING ACT 2 OF THE MAGIC FLUTE
OSIRIS
Spanish explorer, the first European documented as crossing the Mississippi
Hernando de Soto
Author of The Bell Jar
SYLVIA PLATH
Kings of Leon’s follow-up single to Sex on Fire
USE SOMEBODY
An idiom such as “al dente” or “bel canto”
ITALICISM
The author who created Roderick Random
SMOLLETT
Lyric poem with couplets of a long line followed by a shorter one
EPODE
Toni Morrison novel featuring Macon “Milkman” Dead III
SONG OF SOLOMON
FRUIT OF THE BLACKTHORN
SLOE
Terrestrial crustacean of the Oniscidae family
WOODLOUSE
____ bowls has a playing area with a raised centre
CROWN GREEN
Another name for many types of otary
EARED SEALS
Small car, traditionally using an overhead power supply
DODGEM
The central principle in a speech or literary work
KEYNOTE
THE CAP OF A MUSHROOM
PILEUS
Actor who played Ender Wiggin in the 2013 film Ender’s Game
Asa Butterfield
Second letter of the Nato alphabet
BRAVO
TETANUS, ATTUNES, UNSTATE, ____
TAUTENS
Cock ____, founded in London’s East End in 1972, was an influential punk rock band
SPARRER
Political theory developed by Lev Davidovich Bronstein
TROTSKYISM
Dutch polymath Christiaan ____ invented the pendulum clock and discovered Titan, Saturn’s largest moon
HUYGENS
Manager of Middlesbrough when they won the League Cup in 2004
Steve McClaren
Primal Scream’s most successful single, Country Girl, came from this album
Riot City Blues
“Thou still ____ bride of quietness” (Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn)
UNRAVISHED
Tournament in which each player competes against every other in turn
ROUND ROBIN
Gymnast Mary Lou ____ won women’s all-around gold at the 1984 Olympics
RETTON
Joan ____, Spanish surrealist painter
MIRO
Song after which Janet Webb often thanked TV viewers for “watching me and my little show here tonight”
BRING ME SUNSHINE
A big problem or important question
MAJOR ISSUE
Graffiti “addendum” indicating dominance
RULES OK
A SESSION OF WORK
STINT
The ____, 2010 Howard Jacobson novel and winner of the Man Booker prize
Finkler Question
From 1878, all papal conclaves have been in the ____ Chapel
SISTINE
Name originally used for a European wolf spider
TARANTULA
Name for some verse, sometimes compared to music
PURE POETRY
Peter ____ was the most recent male winner of the Olympic 800m and 1500m double, in 1964
SNELL
Exclamation of surprise, often thought of as Australian
STREWTH
To give (someone) the runaround
FOB OFF
New York City is popularly called the ____
BIG APPLE
1993 film billed as “the first hip-hop whodunnit”
Who's The Man