The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 01

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