The Times Specialist 2020 03 01 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
An alternative to “annoy” often seen in the past tense	DISGRUNTLE
In theology, relating to matters of death, judgement etc	ESCHATOLOGICAL
____ and Ben Affleck co-wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting	MATT DAMON
“We are in Afghanistan because this is ____ necessary war” (David Miliband, writing in 2009)	EVERY BIT A
Vegetable commonly used to fill burritos	PINTO BEAN
Bill ____’s Croydon North West by-election win in 1981 was the first parliamentary victory for the SDP-Liberal Alliance	PITT
2019 film, a live-action version of a 1941 Walt Disney film	DUMBO
The second-largest moon of Saturn	RHEA
Actor famous for playing Count Dracula	CHRISTOPHER LEE
To intend	PLAN ON
Final single released by the Beatles	THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
REMOVE MOST OF THE MOISTURE FROM SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY CLOTHING	damp-dry
1966 Elvis Presley single, released with Spinout on the other side	ALL THAT I AM
Estuary in the US states of Maryland and Virginia	CHESAPEAKE BAY
The longest-serving presenter of Tomorrow’s World	Judith Hann
Italian city reached at the end of the longest one-day race in professional cycling	SAN REMO
Mary ____ won Olympic pentathlon gold in 1972	PETERS
A light form of lava often used as an abrasive	PUMICE
Del Shannon’s first single, a 1961 No 1 hit in the USA and UK	RUNAWAY
Collection of 39 essays by G K Chesterton, published in 1910	Alarms and Discursions
Type of hat apparently named after a play by Victorien Sardou	FEDORA
A unit of atmospheric pressure	BAR
Bread from the northeast, often served with a savoury filling	stottie cake
“____ is a contradiction in terms” (Groucho Marx)	MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Acted like Baron Munchausen	SPUN A YARN
The fruit of a rose	HIP
Pseudonym of former Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Wharton	PETER SIMPLE
Fasteners with hexagonal sockets	Allen screws
NAME FOR SEVERAL RIVERS IN SOUTHWEST ENGLAND, INCLUDING TWO TRIBUTARIES OF THE TAW AND THREE OF THE AXE	YEO
Shipping forecast sea area including the Bristol Channel	LUNDY
Skill possessed by safe drivers and pedestrians	ROAD SENSE
Person used to advantage by another	cat's-paw
Boxer who defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 to win his first world heavyweight title	GEORGE FOREMAN
Irrational fear of open or public places	AGORAPHOBIA
“And ____ canker lives in sweetest bud. / All men make faults”(Shakespeare, Sonnet 35)	LOATHSOME
Magazine such as Good Housekeeping or National Geographic	MONTHLY
Coined during the First World War, a name for the condition commonly abbreviated as PTSD	SHELL SHOCK
PART OF THE EYE SURROUNDED BY THE IRIS	PUPIL
Tanker used to carry or supply fuel, water etc	BOWSER
Marine reptile, common during the Jurassic period	PLESIOSAUR
Large marine creature sometimes called blackfish	PILOT WHALE
Foul-smelling weasel relative, Mustela putorius	POLECAT
South African group who performed on the 1986 Paul Simon album Graceland	Ladysmith Black Mambazo
British manufacturing company which abandoned its electric car project last October	DYSON
AN AREA OF OPEN GRASSLAND, ALSO A MEASURE OF YARN	LEA
In the USA, “heinies”	BACKSIDES
To disinter	EXHUME
An Appalachian yokel	HILLBILLY

An alternative to “annoy” often seen in the past tense

DISGRUNTLE

In theology, relating to matters of death, judgement etc

ESCHATOLOGICAL

____ and Ben Affleck co-wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting

MATT DAMON

“We are in Afghanistan because this is ____ necessary war” (David Miliband, writing in 2009)

EVERY BIT A

Vegetable commonly used to fill burritos

PINTO BEAN

Bill ____’s Croydon North West by-election win in 1981 was the first parliamentary victory for the SDP-Liberal Alliance

PITT