The Times Specialist 2020 03 08 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
A COLLOQUIAL DESCRIPTION OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING UNWANTED, ESPECIALLY WHEN REAPPEARING	BAD PENNY
THE NEAREST CITY TO THE RUINS OF ANCIENT CARTHAGE	TUNIS
SEE 31	GROW UP
Goethe play for which Beethoven wrote incidental music including an overture	EGMONT
An illusion of countryside created within a city	RUS IN URBE
On an Italian menu, secondi piatti	MAIN COURSES
One of the two forms of English in Orwell’s 1984	oldspeak
One who believes there is no universe, or no universe separate from God	acosmist
Actress who starred as Miss Marple on ITV, 2004-09	Geraldine McEwan
A state or culture characterised by humanitarianism, equality and political freedom	open society
A second burial, normally in a different place	reinterment
“The secrets of the hoary deep, ____ without bound” (Paradise Lost)	A DARK ILLIMITABLE OCEAN
“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the ____ doorman. Every time I’ve stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again” (David Mitchell, in Cloud Atlas)	CRAFTIEST
Partner in an activity who watches out for another’s safety	BUDDY
American term for a pushchair	STROLLER
To date, Denmark’s only female prime minister, currently chief executive of Save the Children	Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Type of stamp which may be produced in wartime, or when a currency changes	OVERPRINT
William Morris was a leader of this decorative trend	ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
Pat ____ was a player in Arsenal’s 1971 double-winning team, and assistant manager when they won two other doubles	RICE
Pennsylvania is known as the ____ state	KEYSTONE
Russian dog, the first animal to orbit the earth, in 1957	LAIKA
A mournful song, especially performed by a single voice	MONODY
“____ / Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard” (Cymbeline)	WEARINESS
“There’s such a ____ in melancholy / I would not, if I could, be gay” (Samuel Rogers)	CHARM
Those who, in law, are now commonly called claimants	PLAINTIFFS
To add a new part to something originally made without it	RETROFIT
Work done by IGN and Freytag & Berndt	MAPMAKING
____ sang with Lionel Richie in the 1981 hit Endless Love	DIANA ROSS
Informally, “a lot”	NO END
Grammatical term describing Mary in both “Mary loved John” and “John was loved by Mary”	AGENT
& 34: The first line of Peter Pan	ALL CHILDREN EXCEPT ONE
An Italian dish, literally a medley of fried things	FRITTO MISTO
Central character of a Hardy novel with seven “phases”	TESS DURBEYFIELD
British guitarist, the only person to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame three times	ERIC CLAPTON
British astronomer credited with coining the phrase “big bang”	Fred Hoyle
North American insect, with notable eyespots	IO MOTH
The term “impressionism” was derived from a painting by this French artist	CLAUDE MONET
Male given name which means “protector of wealth”	EDWARD
Joseph ____ wrote Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim	CONRAD
Features of Wagner’s Ring, sometimes given names like “Magic sleep” or “Wotan’s will frustrated”	LEITMOTIFS
Bertie Wooster’s haughty and overbearing aunt	AGATHA
In Othello, the jealous lover of Cassio	BIANCA
Of film, music etc, recorded and ready for release	IN THE CAN
Member of a Turkic ethnic group in eastern Siberia	YAKUT
CAR MANUFACTURER, OF MODEL S AND MODEL X	TESLA
Art of making timepieces, or science of measuring time	HOROLOGY
As a pejorative term, an alternative to “blackleg”	SCAB
An animal that eats seeds	GRANIVORE