The Times Specialist 2020 01 12 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
ALLURE	TEMPT
Pianist star of At the Drop of a Hat	DONALD SWANN
Sauce of egg yolks, lemon juice, butter, shallots and herbs	BEARNAISE
The farthing was thus after 1956	OBSOLESCENT
Michael ____ was appointed as environment minister by both Margaret Thatcher and John Major	HESELTINE
16th-century luthier Andrea ____ is credited with originating the violin, viola and cello	AMATI
“It’s not ____ if they’re really after you” (tagline of the 1998 film Enemy of the State)	PARANOIA
A daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne	ERATO
African antelope with lyre-shaped horns	IMPALA
Alternative to “stalls” as the name of a theatre seating area	ORCHESTRA
American term for a dinner jacket	TUXEDO
Part of a horse’s foot between the fetlock and the hoof	PASTERN
Prominent rock on southwestern moorland	TOR
Sobriquet of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick	KINGMAKER
Style of beard worn by Lenin and Boris Becker	GOATEE
Affaire d’____, a duel	HONNEUR
The parasitic plant Viscum album	MISTLETOE
The ____ of Man, Jacob Bronowski’s 1973 TV series about the development of science and philosophy	ASCENT
To take ____ is to support one group rather than another	SIDES
Unlike most plant fossils, ____ wood preserves the three-dimensional form of the original organic material	PETRIFIED
Unwanted irregular fluctuations accompanying a transmitted electrical signal	NOISE
US title of an unconventional 1961 film directed by Alain Resnais, about relationships between aristocrats	LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
____ and Treacle, the 1976 Dennis Potter TV play starring Denholm Elliott which was not transmitted until 1987	BRIMSTONE
An imaginary place where all is as bad as it could be	DYSTOPIA
Nickname of Newcastle United	MAGPIES
An opening in a battlement for shooting through	EMBRASURE
& 20A: … and the award he received on BBC TV on December 15	sports personality of
Its novels are The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let	THE FORSYTE SAGA
It develops into a plant’s seed after fertilisation	OVULE
Henry IV’s ____ of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV’s ____ of Fontainebleau	EDICT
Great ____, large seabird, extinct since the mid-19th century	AUK
Golf club used to reach the green or get out of a hazard	WEDGE
19th-century singer Jenny Lind was the “Swedish ____”	NIGHTINGALE
Feroze ____’s wife and elder son both became prime ministers of India	GANDHI
England’s cricket hero in the 2019 World Cup final …	BEN STOKES
Early device for measuring the altitude of stars	ASTROLABE
Duluth and Thunder Bay lie on the shore of this large body of fresh water	LAKE SUPERIOR
Cochons sauvages	sangliers
Australian baobabs	Bottle trees
“Yodelling” pop singer, first UK-based performer to have three consecutive UK No 1 hits, in 1962	Frank Ifield
THE WILD PANSY	Love-in-idleness
“Please speak now” on radio or TV	OVER TO YOU
The dominant high jumping technique before the more efficient straddle replaced it in the 1950s	WESTERN ROLL
The Dandy’s wild-west strong man who ate cow pies	DESPERATE DAN
Sir ____ is Olivia’s uncle in Twelfth Night	TOBY BELCH
See 17A	THEYEAR
Old Scottish love song also known as Maxwelton Braes	ANNIE LAURIE
Maybe the amount that “makes the medicine go down”	TEASPOONFUL
Fourth highest mountain in the world	LHOTSE
At serious risk	ON THE LINE

ALLURE

TEMPT

Pianist star of At the Drop of a Hat

DONALD SWANN

Sauce of egg yolks, lemon juice, butter, shallots and herbs

BEARNAISE

The farthing was thus after 1956

OBSOLESCENT

Michael ____ was appointed as environment minister by both Margaret Thatcher and John Major

HESELTINE

16th-century luthier Andrea ____ is credited with originating the violin, viola and cello

AMATI