The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Golfer whose official website is shark.com GREG NORMAN
Footballer who scored 185 goals for Arsenal, 1991-98 Ian Wright
Former Dutch coin, now anything of minimal value STIVER
Eutrema japonicum, or the green condiment made from it WASABI
Leg condition that may be treated with sclerotherapy VARICOSE VEINS
Meat from a pig’s thigh HAM
London’s ____ Bridge is also called Victoria Railway Bridge GROSVENOR
Lover and eventual husband of Rosalind in As You Like It ORLANDO
First part of a trilogy, followed by Purgatory and Paradise INFERNO
Star Trek commander played by Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi
Tennis player who said, in 1984, “I’ll let the racquet do the talking” JOHN MCENROE
EXCESSIVELY ABUNDANT PLETHORIC
The foundling of a novel by Henry Fielding TOM JONES
French duo who had a hit with D.I.S.C.O. in 1980 OTTAWAN
A NEW CHANNEL MADE FOR A RIVER OR CANAL CUT
One of six districts in an Italian city, such as Venice SESTIERE
English traveller who gained fame after listing his “life for sale” on eBay in 2008 IAN USHER
Dutch coach of Nigeria’s victorious 1996 Olympic football team jo bonfrere
Jim ____ was a pioneer of country music’s Nashville Sound REEVES
PLAYER OF THE MATCH IN THE 2019 RUGBY WORLD CUP FINAL Duane Vermeulen
THAT PUSHED WHEN ONE EXCEEDS NORMAL LIMITS ENVELOPE
A scruffy child RAGAMUFFIN
WHOOPI GOLDBERG, AUDREY HEPBURN AND DEBORAH KERR HAVE ALL PLAYED ___S IN FILMS NUN
CHALLENGE ON BLACK AND WHITE SQUARES IN MANY NEWSPAPERS CHESS PROBLEM
GAS WHICH MINERS CALL FIREDAMP METHANE
Anatomical dividing wall, such as the one separating nostrils SEPTUM
Chaos, named after a mental hospital in London BEDLAM
Codename of the Playstation 4 Pro gaming console NEO
Common name for Pterolidae, ground-dwelling birds related to pigeons, mostly found in arid areas SANDGROUSE
____ SUCCEEDED ROMULUS AS A LEGENDARY KING OF ROME NUMA POMPILIUS
EPONYMOUS VILLAIN OF A SERIES OF SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY BOOKS BY EOIN COLFER ARTEMIS FOWL
PORT IN KENT WHERE PERKIN WARBECK TRIED TO LAND IN 1495 DEAL
Abalone, also called sea-ear, of the Channel Islands ORMER
Game rewarding speed of recognition and reaction SNAP
Porsche, Daimler AG, and Mercedes-Benz are headquartered in this city STUTTGART
One of three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord MENINX
Southernmost of England’s six metropolitan counties WEST MIDLANDS
What the French call son et lumière SOUND AND LIGHT SHOW
When first elected in 1989, William ____ was the youngest Conservative MP HAGUE
Pigment used by painters since Roman times green earth
1929 Thomas Wolfe novel subtitled A Story of the Buried Life Look Homeward Angel
1942 war film for which Noel Coward wrote the screenplay and music, as well as playing a starring role and jointly directing with David Lean In Which We Serve
____ Gryffindor is a Harry Potter character GODRIC
A variety of pelota JAI ALAI
A sawhorse has a beam joining two ____s A-frame
Actor whose roles included maintenance man Mr Harman in Are You Being Served? Arthur English
The muse of song and dance TERPSICHORE
The majority of the last nine bars in Sibelius’s fifth symphony SILENCE
Stage name of comedian Robert Davis JASPER CARROTT
Wheels or floats on aeroplanes LANDING GEAR