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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 01
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
Forename of Lautner, Momsen or Swift
TAYLOR
Foxes and rabbits may be squatters in these homes
SETTS
A grassy treeless plain in South America
LLANO
City incorporated with Jaffa in 1950
TEL AVIV
2019 World Cup-winning captain
SIYA KOLISI
2019 World Cup-winning captain
EOIN MORGAN
Tree of the Caledonian forest, also seen in EH Shepard’s illustrations in Winnie the Pooh
SCOTS PINE
Lady Tremaine is Cinderella’s ____
STEPMOTHER
Cricket fielding position between the slips and point
GULLY
Six ____ is 720
FACTORIAL
German city, nicknamed “Quadratestadt”, as its streets are laid out in a grid pattern
MANNHEIM
Denmark’s second largest city, European Capital of Culture in 2017, along with Paphos in Cyprus
AARHUS
VISHNU AVATAR, OFTEN DEPICTED WITH A BOW AND ARROW
RAMA
Composer of the ballet Agon, first performed in 1957
STRAVINSKY
Members of a Protestant Church originating in 1772 as a revival of the Bohemian Brethren
MORAVIANS
The ____ suit, late 19th century dress for children, was inspired by Reginald B Birch’s illustrations in a novel
FAUNTLEROY
Home ground of Warwickshire County Cricket Club
EDGBASTON
Michael Le Vell’s character in Coronation Street
Kevin Webster
POINT WHERE A LEAF OR TWIG IS ATTACHED TO A STEM
NODE
Thick cut of beef fillet steak, usually serving two people
CHATEAUBRIAND
Technology firm based in Mountain View, California
GOOGLE
Wader with a long horizontally flattened beak
SPOONBILL
Quite the opposite across the Channel
AU CONTRAIRE
The model of chivalry in Arthurian romance
SIR LANCELOT
Lippo ____, quattrocentro artist who painted Madonna and Child Enthroned
LIPPI
Informally, a Radio 4 comedy show first broadcast in 1978
HITCHHIKER
In Germany this is called Krankenstand
SICK LEAVE
Actress who plays Fleabag’s godmother
OLIVIA COLMAN
Largest US national park, mostly in northwest Wyoming
YELLOWSTONE
STANDARD MONETARY UNIT OF HONDURAS
LEMPIRA
In their six matches against England, ____’s national football team drew with them three times, then lost three times
MONTENEGRO
& 32A: Irish novelist who wrote Tara Road
MAEVE
ROUND TABLE SEAT KEPT FOR THE KNIGHT WHO WOULD SUCCEED IN THE QUEST FOR THE GRAIL, FATAL TO OTHERS WHO SAT IN IT
SIEGE PERILOUS
LAKE ____ IS THE LARGEST LYING WHOLLY IN SWITZERLAND
NEUCHATEL
The first Patricia Cornwell novel featuring Kay Scarpetta
POSTMORTEM
Former marine industry which was physically taxing and dangerous for its main workers
PEARL DIVING
Aircraft or anti-aircraft cannon, named after the Zurich district where it was made
OERLIKON
“River Thames or ____” say OS maps, for stretches above Dorchester
ISIS
The Russell-Einstein ____ of 1955 led to the peace-seeking Pugwash Conferences
MANIFESTO
OUTER MARKINGS ON A TENNIS COURT
TRAMLINES
Blissfully happy — “superlunary” apparently
OVER THE MOON
Capacity for rational, especially highly developed, thought
INTELLECT
France’s Opal coast is in this department
Pas-de-Calais
See 24A
BINCHY
From ____ Town Pier, the world’s oldest surviving cast iron pier, you can catch a ferry to Tilbury
GRAVESEND
“That fellow seems to me to possess but one ____, and that is a wrong one” (Samuel Johnson)
IDEA
An outgoing, socially confident person
EXTROVERT
Area of late 19th and early 20th-century popular music publishing, around New York’s West 28th Street
TIN PAN ALLEY
Plant native to southern Europe, with finely divided leaves, also known as the fennelflower
love-in-a-mist
The last Cambridge college to admit women, in 1988
MAGDALENE