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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 29
The Times Specialist
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Answer
SCENARIO WHICH MAY LEAD TO BANKRUPTCY
debt trap
Night before an important Christian festival
EASTER EVE
AN ORGANIC COMPOUND WITH THE GROUP -O- IN ITS MOLECULES
ETHER
Carol with a melody originally used for Nos Galan, a Welsh carol
DECK THE HALLS
Common component of a traditional British Christmas dinner
BREAD SAUCE
Description of a musical instrument mentioned in Psalms 33, 92 and 144
ten-stringed
Singer with Christmas songs in first and third place on the world all-time bestselling singles list
BING CROSBY
Make an important step in wedding planning
NAME THE DAY
Seasonal film featuring an American 2-8-4 Berkshire type steam engine
POLAR EXPRESS
Serious challenge
TALL ORDER
MOVING IN AN OVERDRAMATIC WAY
FLOUNCING
MADLY IN LOVE
MOONSTRUCK
NONSENSE
BILGE
IDEALISTIC
UTOPIAN
____ PLANTS HAVE SHORT LIFE CYCLES
EPHEMERAL
NOT PAYING ATTENTION
ASLEEP
Film based on a 1943 short story called The Greatest Gift
It's a Wonderful Life
Culicoides impunctatus is the highland ____
MIDGE
German bread traditionally eaten at Christmas
STOLLEN
IN BACKGAMMON, A SINGLE CHECKER ON A POINT
BLOT
Some music fans of the early 1980s
PUNKETTES
Comedian Max Miller was the “Cheeky ____”
CHAPPIE
If you do this puzzle promptly, it will be over soon
OLD YEAR
Foodstuff rated on the Scoville scale
CHILLI
Hamlet character in a painting by John Everett Millais
OPHELIA
Joshua’s father in the Old Testament
NUN
The nature of posh people dressed for a Boxing Day walk?
tweediness
The type of sleigh portrayed in one movement of Prokoviev’s Lieutenant Kijé suite
TROIKA
Pudding of a different style to a Christmas pudding
WHIP
Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire crowned its ____ Queen on December 7
MISTLETOE
Trixie’s health initiative at the beginning of series five of Call the Midwife
keep-fit class
1847 Christmas song by Adolphe Adam
O HOLY NIGHT
“The joys and sorrows sailors find, Coop’d in their winged ____ citadel” (Byron)
sea-girt
“And ____ love, the way that you do” (I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter)
close with
“____ roasting on an open fire” (The Christmas Song)
CHESTNUTS
“They are useless. They can only give you ____” (Pablo Picasso, on computers)
ANSWERS
Seasonal collection which started with a green book in 1961 and continued with an orange one in 1970
CAROLS FOR CHOIRS
“Edward, I thought I said no more ____” (Twelve Days of Christmas [Correspondence], John Julius Norwich (seventh day))
BIRDS
“____ homo factus est / Natura mirante” (Gaudete)
DEUS
About 300,000 ____ are offered on the Exchange and Mart website
USED CARS
Actor who starred in 2D
Jimmy Stewart
Although not mentioned in the laws of either code, ____ is seen as one of rugby’s most heinous acts
GOUGING
Archipelago which became Scotland’s first Unesco world heritage site in 1986
ST KILDA
“The dusky night rides down the sky, / And ____ in the morn” (Henry Fielding)
USHERS
Waited for something like Christmas, as we did in our youth
counted the hours
____’s arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter has soprano and tenor solos for two of the four verses
HAROLD DARKE
DOME-SHAPED HOME OF BEAVERS
LODGE
WHAT MOMMY WAS SEEN DOING IN A SONG RECORDED BY JIMMY BOYD IN 1952
Kissing Santa Claus
FRACTION SOMETIMES INDICATED BY THE GREEK LETTER MU
MILLIONTH
IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF AN ENIGMA MACHINE
ROTOR
PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL WHICH WON THE 2002 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
LIFE OF PI
RELATING TO THE CREATION OF LEGISLATION
law-giving
INTERGOVERNMENTAL GROUPING, FOUNDED IN ADDIS ABABA IN 1963
OAU
LEVERS ARE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE ____, RESISTANCE AND EFFORT
FULCRUM
TOP GADGET GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS 2010, ACCORDING TO A UK CONSUMER SURVEY
IPAD
PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWPOINT DESCRIBED BY TURGENEV IN FATHERS AND SONS
NIHILISM
AN ELF, IN A SEASONAL OR SHOWBIZ CONTEXT
ASSISTANT
SONGS IMITATED IN SOME CHRISTMAS CAROLS
LULLABIES
A ____ CAMERA MAY SHOW YOU MORE ABOUT THE BIRD LIFE IN YOUR GARDEN
NEST BOX