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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 12
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
Cochons sauvages
sangliers
Pianist star of At the Drop of a Hat
DONALD SWANN
Australian baobabs
Bottle trees
The parasitic plant Viscum album
MISTLETOE
Its novels are The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let
THE FORSYTE SAGA
19th-century singer Jenny Lind was the “Swedish ____”
NIGHTINGALE
The dominant high jumping technique before the more efficient straddle replaced it in the 1950s
WESTERN ROLL
American term for a dinner jacket
TUXEDO
Unwanted irregular fluctuations accompanying a transmitted electrical signal
NOISE
Maybe the amount that “makes the medicine go down”
TEASPOONFUL
& 20A: … and the award he received on BBC TV on December 15
sports personality of
A daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne
ERATO
African antelope with lyre-shaped horns
IMPALA
THE WILD PANSY
Love-in-idleness
ALLURE
TEMPT
Prominent rock on southwestern moorland
TOR
Feroze ____’s wife and elder son both became prime ministers of India
GANDHI
Early device for measuring the altitude of stars
ASTROLABE
Alternative to “stalls” as the name of a theatre seating area
ORCHESTRA
US title of an unconventional 1961 film directed by Alain Resnais, about relationships between aristocrats
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
Michael ____ was appointed as environment minister by both Margaret Thatcher and John Major
HESELTINE
The Dandy’s wild-west strong man who ate cow pies
DESPERATE DAN
Duluth and Thunder Bay lie on the shore of this large body of fresh water
LAKE SUPERIOR
See 17A
THEYEAR
Fourth highest mountain in the world
LHOTSE
Nickname of Newcastle United
MAGPIES
It develops into a plant’s seed after fertilisation
OVULE
Golf club used to reach the green or get out of a hazard
WEDGE
____ and Treacle, the 1976 Dennis Potter TV play starring Denholm Elliott which was not transmitted until 1987
BRIMSTONE
Sir ____ is Olivia’s uncle in Twelfth Night
TOBY BELCH
Style of beard worn by Lenin and Boris Becker
GOATEE
At serious risk
ON THE LINE
“It’s not ____ if they’re really after you” (tagline of the 1998 film Enemy of the State)
PARANOIA
An opening in a battlement for shooting through
EMBRASURE
Henry IV’s ____ of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV’s ____ of Fontainebleau
EDICT
“Please speak now” on radio or TV
OVER TO YOU
To take ____ is to support one group rather than another
SIDES
Old Scottish love song also known as Maxwelton Braes
ANNIE LAURIE
The ____ of Man, Jacob Bronowski’s 1973 TV series about the development of science and philosophy
ASCENT
The farthing was thus after 1956
OBSOLESCENT
“Yodelling” pop singer, first UK-based performer to have three consecutive UK No 1 hits, in 1962
Frank Ifield
Unlike most plant fossils, ____ wood preserves the three-dimensional form of the original organic material
PETRIFIED
Great ____, large seabird, extinct since the mid-19th century
AUK
An imaginary place where all is as bad as it could be
DYSTOPIA
16th-century luthier Andrea ____ is credited with originating the violin, viola and cello
AMATI
England’s cricket hero in the 2019 World Cup final …
BEN STOKES
Sobriquet of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
KINGMAKER
Part of a horse’s foot between the fetlock and the hoof
PASTERN
Sauce of egg yolks, lemon juice, butter, shallots and herbs
BEARNAISE
Affaire d’____, a duel
HONNEUR