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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 02 09
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
The ____ are sea stacks at the west end of the Isle of Wight
NEEDLES
1980s sitcom starring Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton
Ever Decreasing Circles
____ Tanaka is a Bond ally in You Only Live Twice
TIGER
“These ____s are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits” (Madame Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled, 1877)
ELEMENTAL
A FIREARM SO NAMED FOR THE PROCESS OF ADDING A SPIRAL GROOVE IN THE BARREL
RIFLE
____ PLAINS ARE CREATED BY LONG-TERM DEPOSITION OF SEDIMENT BY RIVERS
ALLUVIAL
THE 200TH UK NO 1 SINGLE, IN 1965
HELP
A nickname of Arizona
Apache State
A period of (typically) US medical training
INTERNSHIP
Marsupial, roughly the size of a rabbit
rat-kangaroo
To work too hard
OVERDO IT
Trinidadian winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2001
VS Naipaul
What Anthony Burgess called “the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers […] demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight”
SLANG
PRACTICALLY ESSENTIAL PART OF A SENTENCE
NOUN PHRASE
Facetiously, a feigned display of environmental concern
GREENWASH
THEATRES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
ODEONS
Remarkable people or things
PHENOMENA
UK game show based on the final stage of the Netherlands show Miljoenenjacht
DEAL OR NO DEAL
Infusion made with immature or minimally processed leaves
WHITE TEA
Only one prime number is ____
EVEN
A witticism
jeu d'esprit
One who specialises in the classification of diseases
NOSOLOGIST
To date, the only female Prime Minister of France
EDITH CRESSON
Slight forward convergence in car wheels to improve steering and equalize tyre wear
toe-in
MISUSE OF THERAPY BELIEVED TO BE HYPOTHETICAL, BUT BANNED IN SPORT BY THE WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY IN 2003
GENE DOPING
Grammatical feature of Latin and German
dative case
The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours is also called Divine ____
OFFICE
FISH OF THE ORDER ANGUILLIFORMES
EELS
Max ____ was Kafka’s literary executor who disobeyed his instruction to burn his unpublished works
BROD
Organ stop representing the characteristic organ sound
DIAPASON
____ is worth £200 on the usual British Monopoly board
VINE STREET
British artist, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis
LUCIAN FREUD
Resort formerly promoted as the “suntrap of the south”
EASTBOURNE
____ of Scotland is a clothing company, whose website claims that it coined the term “knitwear”
PRINGLE
Simon Pegg’s co-star in such films as Hot Fuzz and Paul
NICK FROST
Form of off-road racing which evolved from trials riding
MOTOCROSS
PIGMENT OF VARIOUS COLOURS FROM YELLOW TO BROWN
OCHRE
FORMER PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA, NOW COMBINED WITH KWAZULU
NATAL
One authorised to remove property until a debt is paid
SEQUESTRATOR
Sport introduced to the Olympic Games in 1988
TABLE TENNIS
Comedians for whom Raleigh made a three-man tandem
THE GOODIES
____’s lines in Do They Know It’s Christmas began “But say a prayer”
GEORGE MICHAEL
SI unit of electromotive force
VOLT
“People definitely did that in ____ when I was growing up” (Alan Davies on QI, on Romans vomiting to carry on eating)
PUBS
Former Arsenal midfielder who joined Liverpool in August 2017
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Actress who won an Oscar for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
CATE BLANCHETT
The sequel to Saturday Night Fever
STAYING ALIVE
Portable free-reed organs
ACCORDIONS