The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
British pop group whose biggest hit was Hands to Heaven, in 1988 BREATHE
English name for the feast of the Annunciation LADY DAY
Singer and comedian Anna ____’s 22-minute synopsis of Wagner’s Ring ends with “You’re exactly where you started, 20 hours ago!” RUSSELL
“Courts and camps are the only places to ____ the world in” (Lord Chesterfield) LEARN
Benidorm is a major centre of this tourist area COSTA BLANCA
Tea-time delicacy of southern England LARDY CAKE
In the 3D spelling, the man who saw the Pacific from a peak in Darien, according to Keats HERNAN CORTES
Derogatory nickname for the 43rd president of the United States DUBYA
____’s 2010 US Open win completed a career grand slam RAFAEL NADAL
3D breeders developed the ____ sheep MERINO
“____ humanity” is a cliché about a late admired person A LOSS TO
In a harmful, or (especially of smells) offensive way NOISOMELY
African ethnic group living mainly in Nigeria YORUBA
Softening introduction to a possibly upsetting statement IN ALL HONESTY
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows ____ about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him ____” (Vaclav Havel) LESS AND LESS
A COMMON SIZE OF CARAFE half-litre
A MINOR ILLNESS AILMENT
The 3D name for a famous pedestrian street in Barcelona Las Ramblas
Ferdinand and Isabella established the 3D ____ in 1478 INQUISITION
GUITAR-LIKE 3D INSTRUMENT OF THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES VIHUELA
According to the players they were written for, the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Barber were ____ UNPLAYABLE
1990 tragicomic film about a north London working class family, directed by Mike Leigh LIFE IS SWEET
An old name for nitric acid aqua fortis
____ lint is a fabric for treating wounds, and cockney rhyming slang meaning “broke” BORACIC
Scrabble sets for this language have a double L tile SPANISH
Renaissance instrument with woodwind-style fingerholes, blown like a brass instrument CORNETT
The fruit of the sweet or 3D ____ is used to make marrons glacés CHESTNUT
To make a mistake, originally in knitting DROP A STITCH
World Radiography Day is held on November 8, the anniversary of Wilhelm ____’s famous discovery ROENTGEN
Type of seatbelt developed in the 1960s INERTIA REEL
3D musical style, influenced by Romani culture FLAMENCO
If not fresh enough for a taco, a tortilla may become a ____ TOSTADA
19th-century illustrator Aubrey ____ worked almost entirely in black and white BEARDSLEY
Program which starts a computer’s operating system bootloader
Agony aunt Anna ____ worked for LBC and Cosmopolitan RAEBURN
Saint ____ of Loyola was a cofounder of the Society of Jesus IGNATIUS
An old-fashioned form of charm jewellery AMULET
A CROWD ____ SOMETHING AS A COLLECTIVE DEMAND bays for
Made inaudible by a louder sound drowned out
A CHEESE FIRST MADE IN, AND NAMED AFTER, A TOWN IN EAST PRUSSIA TILSIT
COWBOY HEADGEAR ten-gallon hat
INFORMALLY, A STATE OF BLISS HOG HEAVEN
The ____ is a coming of age TV drama at a summer camp A LIST
6A and many other 3D explorers came from this region EXTREMADURA
Mountain range including Mulhacen, continental Europe’s highest peak outside the Alps and Caucasus SIERRA NEVADA
The kingdom ruled by Croesus LYDIA
ORIGINALLY 3D DISH OF SEAFOOD OR MEAT MARINATED AND COOKED IN AN ACIDIC MIXTURE ESCABECHE
3D province with the same name as its “royal” capital city CIUDAD REAL