The Times Specialist 2020 02 23 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
THE ____ TAPES, 2015 HORROR FILM ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSION	VATICAN
LARGE FURNITURE VAN	PANTECHNICON
OF SNOW, DESCENDING RAPIDLY DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE	AVALANCHING
SMALL SHALLOW BOWL FOR OENOPHILES	TASTEVIN
DOROTHY ____ WON HER FIRST EVENING STANDARD BEST ACTRESS AWARD FOR PLAYING VIOLA IN THE 1960 RSC PRODUCTION OF TWELFTH NIGHT	TUTIN
Irish name for a cudgel made of oak or blackthorn	SHILLELAGH
A design created by inlaying gold or silver on steel	DAMASCENE
Blue-black fruit often used in gin or jelly	DAMSON
Actor who has played Karl Kennedy in over 3,700 episodes of Neighbours	Alan Fletcher
A showcase for impressionists, broadcast on both Radio 4 and BBC2	DEAD RINGERS
1981 Disney flop in which a comic book writer attempts to fly like his fictional creation	condorman
From Italian, a name for Ottoman empire slave quarters	BAGNIO
Mountainous “breathing space” created in 1951, which includes the Glyders and Cader Idris	Snowdonia National Park
Nation which had no national parks until 2002	SCOTLAND
Pips on the hour on radio or TV	time signal
“Six songs from ____” is George Butterworth’s 1911 baritone and piano setting of poems by AE Housman	A SHROPSHIRE LAD
Something carried by a pageboy, traditionally	TRAIN
“And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was ____” (Mark 1:42)	CLEANSED
A black-and-white photo	MONOCHROME
Lighting control which varies brightness in a room	DIMMER SWITCH
Competitive shooting sport developed in the early 1980s	PAINTBALL
Actress who played Demelza in the 1970s BBC Poldark series	Angharad Rees
A white skull and crossbones on a black field	JOLLY ROGER
Island nation invaded by US forces in 1983	GRENADA
Affected by the condition once called “Derbyshire neck”	GOITROUS
Infectious agent believed to cause BSE	PRION
Jordan’s capital city	AMMAN
A pseudo-Arabic name, probably invented by Paracelsus, for the hypothetical universal solvent sought by alchemists	ALKAHEST
Fruit with drupelets, a hybrid created accidentally in California in 1881	LOGANBERRY
Capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina	SARAJEVO
Daily newspaper whose new editor, Roula Khalaf, succeeded Lionel Barber in January	FINANCIAL TIMES
The oldest city of the ancient Assyrian empire and its capital during the reign of Sennacherib, later destroyed in 612BC	NINEVEH
The world’s second-largest religion	ISLAM
Forename of George Eliot’s “Weaver of Raveloe”	SILAS
Unwanted noise on a phone or radio	STATIC
Presenter of Only Connect on BBC2	VICTORIA COREN MITCHELL
1980s US crime drama series featuring Crockett and Tubbs	MIAMI VICE
Informally, a member of a minority group outside the 1900 union of the two main Scottish Presbyterian churches	WEE FREE
Largest city in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton	LUGANO
Members of an ascetic Jewish sect, active from approximately 200BC to 100AD	ESSENES
Sportsman such as Kevin Mayer or Roman Sebrle	DECATHLETE
In Britain, an open space surrounded by cloisters	GARTH
ITV 1970s comedy classic with a black and white cat called Vienna	RISING DAMP
Surname of a Manchester United goalkeeper; later the name of Chesney’s Great Dane in Coronation Street	SCHMEICHEL
____ replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria in 1991	ABUJA
Third-largest city in Wales, near the mouth of the River Usk	NEWPORT

THE ____ TAPES, 2015 HORROR FILM ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSION