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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 01
The Times Specialist
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