The Times Specialist 2020 02 02 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Form of stationery on which Vladimir Nabokov wrote his novels	INDEX CARDS
Goethe’s ____s include “Painting and tattooing of the body is a return to animalism” and “The classical is health; and the romantic, disease”	MAXIM
The Nissan ____ was the company’s flagship limousine	PRESIDENT
Type of aircraft requiring no runway	VTOL
Bird of prey which recolonised Scotland naturally in the 1950s, especially at Loch Garten	OSPREY
Military term for guard duty	sentry-go
Third-largest city of Cyprus, on its southern coast	LARNACA
Commonly, the Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons	BLUES AND ROYALS
“So glistered the dire snake, and into ____ / Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the tree” (Milton)	FRAUD
“IBM says the ____ is king. At Amstrad, we only want your money!” (Alan Sugar)	CUSTOMER
Spice obtained from tree bark	CINNAMON
Informally, someone’s neck	SCRAG
1972 US movie about politics, starring Robert Redford	THE CANDIDATE
A SIGN THAT SOMETHING HAS BEEN IN A LOCATION	TRACE
Greek culture minister who wanted some marbles back	Melina Mercouri
THE LARGEST EUROPEAN MEMBER OF THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT, 1961-92	YUGOSLAVIA
American writer of populist music like the ballet Rodeo	AARON COPLAND
London location noted for gentlemen’s outfitters	JERMYN STREET
In most English-speaking countries, this separates the integral and fractional parts of a number	DECIMAL POINT
Creature whose home appears on Utah state highway signs	BEE
The river on which Ipswich stands	ORWELL
____ first became world welterweight champion in 1946	Sugar Ray Robinson
Costing one 80th of a pre-decimalisation pound	THREEPENNY
The main gastric enzyme in the human digestive system	PEPSIN
Traumatic memory supposedly “cleared” in practices of the Church of Scientology	ENGRAM
A replacement for a starting pitcher in a baseball game	RELIEVER
South American palm tree or its blackish-purple berries	ACAI
Barrier island of the lagoon of Venice	LIDO
Chateau in the grounds of Versailles, built for Louis XV’s mistress	Petit Trianon
Australia’s Lake ____ is only full a few times in a century	EYRE
Vietnamese soup with meat and rice noodles	PHO
Greyish wingless insect, seen as a household pest	SILVERFISH
Rubgy union’s flankers and number eight in are ____ forwards	LOOSE
The point on the celestial sphere opposite to the zenith	NADIR
Administrative area including Beamish Museum and Bishop Auckland	County Durham
____ acid is made from ammonia in the Ostwald process	NITRIC
West and East ____ are northern provinces of Belgium	FLANDERS
Representations of plans or theories	SCHEMATA
US slang for something excellent (spelling with Z)	LOLLAPALOOZA
How careful planners may look	A LONG WAY AHEAD
____ crosses the Thames at the eastern end of Battersea Park	CHELSEA BRIDGE
FORMER OLYMPIC FIELD EVENT, LAST CONTESTED IN 1912	Standing long jump
A drug used to relieve tension	RELAXER
British javelin thrower who won silver medals in four global championships, three behind Jan Zelezny	STEVE BACKLEY
Member of an east Germanic tribe which established kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula	VANDAL
The river on which Albuquerque stands	RIO GRANDE
SCENIC ROAD ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN OR CLIFF	CORNICHE
Dendroaspis polylepis, the second-longest venomous snake species	BLACK MAMBA
THE ____ GUARD SERVED AS BODYGUARDS FOR ROMAN EMPERORS	PRAETORIAN
North Pacific Ocean marine mammal which uses tools	SEA OTTER

Form of stationery on which Vladimir Nabokov wrote his novels

Goethe’s ____s include “Painting and tattooing of the body is a return to animalism” and “The classical is health; and the romantic, disease”

MAXIM

The Nissan ____ was the company’s flagship limousine

PRESIDENT

Type of aircraft requiring no runway

VTOL

Bird of prey which recolonised Scotland naturally in the 1950s, especially at Loch Garten

OSPREY

Military term for guard duty

sentry-go

Third-largest city of Cyprus, on its southern coast