The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
FORMER PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA, NOW COMBINED WITH KWAZULU NATAL
One authorised to remove property until a debt is paid SEQUESTRATOR
____ PLAINS ARE CREATED BY LONG-TERM DEPOSITION OF SEDIMENT BY RIVERS ALLUVIAL
PRACTICALLY ESSENTIAL PART OF A SENTENCE NOUN PHRASE
PIGMENT OF VARIOUS COLOURS FROM YELLOW TO BROWN OCHRE
A FIREARM SO NAMED FOR THE PROCESS OF ADDING A SPIRAL GROOVE IN THE BARREL RIFLE
THEATRES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME ODEONS
1980s sitcom starring Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton Ever Decreasing Circles
A nickname of Arizona Apache State
A witticism jeu d'esprit
Slight forward convergence in car wheels to improve steering and equalize tyre wear toe-in
Sport introduced to the Olympic Games in 1988 TABLE TENNIS
The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours is also called Divine ____ OFFICE
The sequel to Saturday Night Fever STAYING ALIVE
To date, the only female Prime Minister of France EDITH CRESSON
To work too hard OVERDO IT
Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001 VS Naipaul
UK game show based on the final stage of the Netherlands show Miljoenenjacht DEAL OR NO DEAL
What Anthony Burgess called “the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers […] demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight” SLANG
____ is worth £200 on the usual British Monopoly board VINE STREET
____’s lines in Do They Know It’s Christmas began “But say a prayer” GEORGE MICHAEL
Actress who won an Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator CATE BLANCHETT
Comedians for whom Raleigh made a three-man tandem THE GOODIES
Resort formerly promoted as the “suntrap of the south” EASTBOURNE
SI unit of electromotive force VOLT
Simon Pegg’s co-star in such films as Hot Fuzz and Paul NICK FROST
Organ stop representing the characteristic organ sound DIAPASON
Facetiously, a feigned display of environmental concern GREENWASH
“People definitely did that in ____ when I was growing up” (Alan Davies on QI, on Romans vomiting to carry on eating) PUBS
The ____ are sea stacks at the west end of the Isle of Wight NEEDLES
THE 200TH UK NO 1 SINGLE, IN 1965 HELP
MISUSE OF THERAPY BELIEVED TO BE HYPOTHETICAL, BUT BANNED IN SPORT BY THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY IN 2003 GENE DOPING
FISH OF THE ORDER ANGUILLIFORMES EELS
Max ____ was Kafka’s literary executor who disobeyed his instruction to burn his unpublished works BROD
Marsupial, roughly the size of a rabbit rat-kangaroo
Infusion made with immature or minimally processed leaves WHITE TEA
Grammatical feature of Latin and German dative case
____ Tanaka is a Bond ally in You Only Live Twice TIGER
____ of Scotland is a clothing company, whose website claims that it coined the term “knitwear” PRINGLE
British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis LUCIAN FREUD
A period of (typically) US medical training INTERNSHIP
“These ____s are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits” (Madame Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled, 1877) ELEMENTAL
Remarkable people or things PHENOMENA
One who specialises in the classification of diseases NOSOLOGIST
Portable free-reed organs ACCORDIONS
Only one prime number is ____ EVEN
Former Arsenal midfielder who joined Liverpool in August 2017 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Form of off-road racing which evolved from trials riding MOTOCROSS