The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Founder of the short-lived UK newspaper Today EDDY SHAH
____’s directorial debut was She’s Gotta Have It in 1986 SPIKE LEE
A small mountain lake TARN
“There is no ____ which is not true” (Miguel de Cervantes) PROVERB
Singer whose 2007 cover of What a Wonderful World with Eva Cassidy was her first No 1 single KATIE MELUA
Home secretary succeeded by Douglas Hurd in 1985 Leon Brittan
Tempranillo and garnacha tinta are the main grape varieties used to make this red wine RIOJA
In US slang, to turn from a moral to an immoral life break bad
Hydrocarbon in natural and synthetic rubbers ISOPRENE
Albanian warlord who ruled a near-autonomous state in the Ottoman empire based in Ioannina, visited by Byron ALI PASHA
Portrayed on TV by Barbara Hale, Perry Mason’s secretary DELLA STREET
Played by Race Davies, the sister of Steve, Martin Kemp’s EastEnders character Jackie Owen
Possible response to fear of civil unrest or natural disaster HOARDING
This was founded by Aneurin Bevan in 1948 National Health Service
EARACHE OTALGIA
Will Smith’s usual way of addressing the head of the household in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air UNCLE PHIL
1978 comedy film starring Clint Eastwood and an orangutan called Clyde Every Which Way But Loose
Name used for a sight by American archers eye peep
Song by the Script, its title in the line “Maybe I’ll get famous as ____” The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Machine which turns and shapes wood or metal LATHE
Persecution by billeting of intimidatory troops in a Huguenot home, used by Louis XIV in the 1680s dragonnade
A large book TOME
The glossy surface of the teeth ENAMEL
Translation of the name created by German psychologist William Stern for the score in his tests on students INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT
Madonna single released between Cherish and Dear Jessie Oh Father
Charles Dickens novel divided into five “staves” A CHRISTMAS CAROL
The ____, a 1980 novel by Margaret Drabble, its central character a journalist called Kate Armstrong MIDDLE GROUND
____ tenens, a deputy or stand-in LOCUM
The greatest British film of all time, according to the British Film Institute in 1999 THE THIRD MAN
Word which can precede snake, roots, and widow GRASS
A decomposed snail in a ginger beer bottle in 1928 led to the case which laid the foundation of laws about ____ NEGLIGENCE
About 130 beats per minute, in music ALLEGRO
Nursemaid employed by Europeans in colonial India AYAH
First word in the title of a long-running Jools Holland show LATER
STAR TREK ANDROID CHARACTER PLAYED BY BRENT SPINER DATA
Comedian Trevor Noah took over from Jon Stewart in 2015 as presenter of The ____ on American TV Daily Show
“I pass, like ____, from land to land; / I have strange power of speech” (Coleridge, in The Ancient Mariner) NIGHT
Often pink-flowered relative of the primula, native to southern Europe but sometimes growing wild in southern England CYCLAMEN
Scottish regular on Dragons’ Den, 2005-2015 Duncan Bannatyne
Erectile plumage or hair HACKLES
British economist David ____ developed the theory of comparative advantage about international trade, in 1817 RICARDO
In diocese of Norwich regulations, “____s should honour the dead, comfort the living and inform posterity” EPITAPH
Actor whose first major film success was Genevieve KENNETH MORE
The most populous US city on the Rio Grande EL PASO
A name for the pan used to make a Spanish rice-based dish paellera
A type of presenter, from a French word for “godfather” COMPERE
Having 20/10 rather than 20/20 vision sharp-sighted
In ____, (conducted) while a person is not present ABSENTIA