The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“Wasn’t it all okay? Till she showed here. ____, describing me as an ape” (A Streetcar Named Desire) hoity-toity
Standup comedian married to 36A Gary Delaney
ENGLISH ATHLETE, FIRST WOMAN TO RUN A SUB-5-MINUTE MILE Diane Leather
Actor who played the eponymous character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Matthew Broderick
A male born between Surrey and the River Medway Kentish man
Children’s author who wrote as Dr Seuss THEODOR GEISEL
Informally, ____ glasses are those with thick lenses Coke-bottle
The heroine of Northanger Abbey Catherine Morland
The pollen-producing part of a stamen ANTHER
BIBLICAL SITE OF A BATTLE JUST BEFORE THE DAY OF JUDGMENT ARMAGEDDON
SECOND ORDER FRANCISCAN NUN, ALSO CALLED A POOR CLARE MINORESS
MSS STANDS FOR ____ MANUSCRIPTS
One of the blue creatures in the Yellow Submarine film MEANIE
That which is made by a fletcher ARROW
English Civil War battle near a Northamptonshire village NASEBY
To exhort or advocate RECOMMEND
____ Sunset, released in 1989, was one of Van Morrison’s most successful albums AVALON
Ronnie ____ was a member of the “Anfield Boot Room”, and was Liverpool’s caretaker manager twice in the early 1990s MORAN
Crown land royal demesne
This country’s national anthem is called Hatikvah ISRAEL
Mediterranean port which is France’s main naval base TOULON
A name for various decapod crustaceans SHRIMP
A container, and the last part of a Silly Party candidate’s name in Monty Python’s Election Night Special BISCUIT BARREL
Form of theatre exemplified by Donizetti’s Don Pasquale COMIC OPERA
Northumberland castle, about 5 miles southeast of Lindisfarne BAMBURGH
COMEDY PANEL GAME FEATURING MATT LUCAS AS SCOREKEEPER GEORGE DAWES SHOOTING STARS
IN MALAYSIA, A WHISKY AND SODA ON THE ROCKS STENGAH
Duck which is sometimes called the white merganser SMEW
INFORMALLY, SOMEONE FROM YORKSHIRE TYKE
Standup comedian married to 8D Sarah Millican
Russian city called Molotov from 1940 to 1957 PERM
One ____ is approximately 0.000039 inches MICROMETRE
____, bishop of Bayeux, was a half-brother of William I ODO
With Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Denis ____ edited the Encyclopédie DIDEROT
“Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and ____” (George RR Martin) TOFU
Fictional land created by Samuel Butler EREWHON
Sweet white wine from this commune in France can be sold under its own name or as Sauternes BARSAC
Former site of the second Eleanor cross on the route from Lincoln to London GRANTHAM
“My name means the shape I am”, ____ tells Alice HUMPTY DUMPTY
COLLOQUIALLY, A SENSATIONALIST TABLOID NEWSPAPER red-top
Ffordd Pen Llech in ____ has recently been recognised as the world’s steepest residential street HARLECH
“Have done with this ____ of impertinence” (Walpole, The Castle of Otranto) RHAPSODY
Type of nut also called Queensland nut MACADAMIA
UK government agency which investigates industrial accidents HSE
IN THE USA, TO STUDY AS A SUBSIDIARY SUBJECT MINOR IN
Greek poet who lived around 700BC and wrote Theogony, describing origins of the gods HESIOD
The battle of Omdurman was a decisive defeat for the ____ forces in 19th-century Sudan MAHDIST
2012 global hit single which followed Korea and was followed by Gentleman GANGNAM STYLE