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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 10 27
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
COMPUTER WHICH BEAT GARRY KASPAROV IN A GAME OF CHESS IN 1996
DEEP BLUE
“Love truth, but pardon ____” (Voltaire)
ERROR
“In all my associations with hunters, travellers and naturalists, I have never yet been able to find one who would defend the ____” (Theodore Roosevelt)
HYENA
Horace: “Dolly Levi, you are a damned ____ woman” Dolly: “Why Horace Vandergelder, that is the nicest thing you have ever said to me” (Hello, Dolly!)
EXASPERATING
“The ____” is a local informal name for the Witwatersrand scarp
REEF
Tangled thickets of shrubs in the southwestern USA
CHAPARRAL
Flat grey sheet of cloud
STRATUS
CENTRAL CHARACTER OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
PORTIA
Abbreviated, a weapon such as the Peacekeeper
ICBM
Composer of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
GUSTAV MAHLER
Jewish woman who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus
MARY MAGDALENE
Marks in the same places as Christ’s crucifixion wounds
STIGMATA
COCONUT HUSK FIBRE
COIR
King Lear character with an illegitimate son, Edmund
Earl of Gloucester
Cheshire town which is popular with train-spotters
CREWE
BIRTHMARKS OR MOLES
NAEVI
REGION AT THE EASTERN END OF THE MAINLAND IN ANCIENT GREECE
ATTICA
Plant of the daisy family’s “flea-bane” genus
ERIGERON
1954 EPIC FILM CO-WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AKIRA KUROSAWA
SEVEN SAMURAI
As a musical instruction, gradually slowing and becoming quieter
CALANDO
MAORI TERM FOR SOMEONE OF EUROPEAN DESCENT
PAKEHA
Irish author whose debut novel was The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien
Sumo wrestler
RIKISHI
Baseball catcher and manager who said “If you come to a fork in the road, take it”
YOGI BERRA
Plant known as Adam’s needle
YUCCA
SINEW
TENDON
SPOOKS CHARACTER, AN MI5 INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, PLAYED BY NICOLA WALKER
Ruth Evershed
Lewd bespectacled comic creation of Les Dawson
Cosmo Smallpiece
Capital of Cambodia
PHNOM PENH
A SEEMINGLY BOTTOMLESS CHASM
ABYSS
Medieval Latin hymn referenced in many works of classical music
DIES IRAE
An area of flat unforested grassland
STEPPE
“The Russians are liars — you can’t trust them” (Harry S Truman, talking about the 1945 ____ conference)
POTSDAM
Genus to which holly belongs
ILEX
American actress; wife of Shakespeare
ANNE HATHAWAY
Controversial 1959 William S Burroughs novel
NAKED LUNCH
ITALIAN FLATBREAD TOPPED WITH HERBS AND SALT
FOCACCIA
The ____, Ealing comedy named after a Battersea street
LAVENDER HILL MOB
Musical composition used as practice material, or to display virtuosity
ETUDE
A kind of profanity deleted in Watergate tape transcripts
EXPLETIVE
SWISS TOWN IN VALAIS, FAMED AS A SKI RESORT
ZERMATT
TITLE OF SINGLES BY ARETHA FRANKLIN, NIK KERSHAW, SPLIT ENZ, AND DEBBIE GIBSON
ONE STEP AHEAD
AUSTRALIAN FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER, CURRENTLY THE WORLD NO 1
Ashleigh Barty
A LANTHANIDE, ONE OF FOUR ELEMENTS ALL NAMED AFTER THE SAME MINING VILLAGE IN SWEDEN
ERBIUM
A rounded convex architectural moulding
OVOLO
MOZART OPERA ABOUT A KING OF CRETE
IDOMENEO
Mercury, to alchemists
AZOTH
French cheese similar to Gruyère
COMTE
Le Baiser, an Auguste Rodin sculpture of 1882
THE KISS
THE AUTHOR OF CRANFORD
ELIZABETH GASKELL