The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
SMALL PIPE ON THE SIDE OR ROOF OF MANY HOUSES BOILER FLUE
FORM OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, DEVISED BY MIKAO USUI REIKI
OBSOLETE DOUBLE REED INSTRUMENT PITCHED BELOW THE OBOE TENOROON
COLOURLESS VISCOUS LIQUID USED TO SWEETEN FOOD AND THICKEN LIQUEURS GLYCEROL
Driver who in 1995 became (and remains) the youngest ever winner of the World Rally Championship Colin McRae
Comic actor who played Ken in the “Suits you” sketches Paul Whitehouse
The sum of four consecutive primes, the first being 193 EIGHT HUNDRED
The Girls of ____ is a Muriel Spark novel about hard times in Kensington in 1945 SLENDER MEANS
The snowflake genus LEUCOJUM
The fact-obsessed school board superintendent in Hard Times THOMAS GRADGRIND
Sport named after a Warwickshire school RUGBY
Short thrusting sword in use until the 17th century ESTOC
Singer whose 2010 debut album Lights entered the UK charts at No 1 ELLIE GOULDING
A mother who gave birth when over 100 years old, according to chapter 5 of Genesis EVE
Author of the Inspector Morse novels COLIN DEXTER
Bernard ____ was a fictional scientist on 1950s BBC TV QUATERMASS
UNLEAVENED BREAD EATEN DURING PASSOVER MATZO
Jean Hill, witness to the assassination of John F Kennedy, was known as the ____ LADY IN RED
In spite of what has just been stated EVEN THEN
If you do this in bridge, your opponents will almost certainly score 50 or more points above the line OVERBID
In Roman myth, a son of the vestal virgin Rhea Silvia REMUS
Jamaican-born US 400m runner, world No 1, 2005-09 Sanya Richards-Ross
Handel pastoral opera based on characters in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Acis and Galatea
Devon town, with England’s most westerly racecourse NEWTON ABBOT
Ferdinand II of ____ and Isabella I of Castile were Spain’s “Catholic Monarchs” ARAGON
Name for a Cambridge University undergraduate course TRIPOS
'Not the ____ which blows no man to good' (Pistol, in King Henry IV) ILL WIND
National anthem whose original title translates as “War Song for the Army of the Rhine” MARSEILLAISE
AN UNSKILLED COMPUTER HACKER WHO MAKES USE OF EXISTING CODE script kiddie
1979 ALBUM BY FLEETWOOD MAC TUSK
MAMMAL WITH LIPS BUT NO TEETH ANTEATER
Canadian author of The Handmaid’s Tale MARGARET ATWOOD
Canadian crime comedy series about mountie Benton Fraser’s adventures in Chicago DUE SOUTH
THOMAS HARDY POEM ABOUT THE EVENING CHORUS OF BIRDS PROUD SONGSTERS
PIKE-LIKE FISH OF THE BELONE GENUS GAR
A CATAFALQUE IS OFTEN USED IN THIS CEREMONIAL EVENT LYING IN STATE
Brand name shown on many speed cameras GATSO
Ancient Scandinavian brass instrument LUR
Air-filled skull cavity, a Latin word meaning “curve” or “pocket” SINUS
Actor who played butler Benson in the US sitcom Soap Robert Guillaume
According to the Church of England’s Table of Kindred and Affinity, a man may not marry his ____ NIECE
“The ____s were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke” (Antony and Cleopatra) OAR
Artistic presentation in which performers are motionless TABLEAU VIVANT
LOVER OF PEGEEN IN THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD Shawn Keogh
19th-century Italian painter best known for his Alpine landscapes Giovanni Segantini
A male or female factotum PERSON FRIDAY
BRITISH NAME FOR AN X-RAY DEVICE USED IN SHOE SHOPS DURING FITTING IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY PEDOSCOPE
BOX FROM WHICH CARDS ARE DEALT IN A CASINO SHOE