The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 11 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“No language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘____’ (The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul) AS PRETTY AS AN AIRPORT
Encrustation caused by boiling hard water LIMESCALE
1993 Crowded House album whose most successful UK single was Locked Out Together Alone
Critic whose Unreliable Memoirs appeared in 1980 CLIVE JAMES
Marvin Gaye album of 1967; Booker T album of 1981 I WANT YOU
Duke Ellington and his ____ Orchestra COTTON CLUB
One who suffers death for a cause MARTYR
IN GREEK MYTH, ZEUS BECAME THIS BIRD TO SEDUCE HERA CUCKOO
2003 Ben Elton musical based on Rod Stewart’s music Tonight's the Night
Mullion Cove is on the west coast of the ____ peninsula LIZARD
Bernard Manning ran the ____ Club in Manchester EMBASSY
In modern spelling, China’s “southern capital” city NANJING
CALF MEAT VEAL
A FEMALE SHEEP EWE
____ was the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film appearance, in Selena JENNIFER LOPEZ
THEFT LARCENY
“In deep ____ there is no place for sentimentality” (William S Burroughs) SADNESS
THE FOUNDER OF THIS LIVES TO SEE THE BENEFICIARY RECEIVE IT inter vivos trust
Vinnie Jones appears in this 2006 romantic comedy film inspired by Twelfth Night She's the Man
German fashion designer rarely seen without black sunglasses KARL LAGERFELD
Village with a 1950s racecourse and Grand Prix circuit AINTREE
A FUNCTIONAL UNIT OF THE KIDNEY NEPHRON
Creator of detective Sam Spade DASHIELL HAMMETT
Experiences conditions seen as inferior slums it
ARTISTIC COUPLE WITH SURNAMES PROUSCH AND PASSMORE Gilbert and George
First of two James Bond films to feature John Cleese THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
Safety device protecting drivers’ heads on Formula 1 cars HALO
A German river flowing through a city called Frankfurt ODER
TABLE LINEN NAPERY
THE RIVER URE BECOMES THE ____ JUST OVER 50 MILES BEFORE JOINING THE TRENT TO FORM THE HUMBER ESTUARY OUSE
A ____ represents Scotland in the UK’s royal coat of arms UNICORN
Former magnox nuclear power station on the Dengie peninsula in Essex BRADWELL
Former MP and news reporter known as “the man in the white suit” MARTIN BELL
A SUN-DRIED BRICK ADOBE
Located on the Drava river, Slovenia’s second largest city maribor
POST FROM WHICH CRIMINALS WERE HUNG AFTER EXECUTION GIBBET
EXCALIBUR FEATURES IN THE STORIES OF KING ARTHUR, MERLIN, AND ____ GAWAIN
ABBREVIATION SIGNIFYING GRATITUDE BEFORE COMPLETION OF A REQUESTED TASK TIA
AUSTRALIAN MODEL AND ACTRESS, THE YOUNGEST MODEL TO APPEAR ON THE COVER OF VOGUE IN THE USA GEMMA WARD
LISBETH SALANDER HAS A ____ TATTOO AS WELL AS A DRAGON ONE WASP
SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING DATA ON TRADE BETWEEN EU MEMBER STATES INTRASTAT
In ___, one digit represents three binary digits OCTAL
Archaic word meaning “Bless ye”, and a canticle starting “O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord” BENEDICITE
Torture device, supposedly used in the Middle Ages IRON MAIDEN
IN ____, OPERATING CORRECTLY IN COMBINATION SYNC
British online supermarket with no physical stores OCADO
Rugby union player who played for England in the 1880s and revolutionised half-back play Alan Rotherham
Character in Arthurian legend, often described as 39D’s brother or half-brother MORDRED
Lead singer of Radiohead THOM YORKE
A HEADWORD IN A DICTIONARY LEMMA