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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 03 08
The Times Specialist
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Grammatical term describing Mary in both “Mary loved John” and “John was loved by Mary”
AGENT
Features of Wagner’s Ring, sometimes given names like “Magic sleep” or “Wotan’s will frustrated”
LEITMOTIFS
Actress who starred as Miss Marple on ITV, 2004-09
Geraldine McEwan
One who believes there is no universe, or no universe separate from God
acosmist
SEE 31
GROW UP
Partner in an activity who watches out for another’s safety
BUDDY
William Morris was a leader of this decorative trend
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
One of the two forms of English in Orwell’s 1984
oldspeak
A second burial, normally in a different place
reinterment
____ sang with Lionel Richie in the 1981 hit Endless Love
DIANA ROSS
Central character of a Hardy novel with seven “phases”
TESS DURBEYFIELD
An animal that eats seeds
GRANIVORE
As a pejorative term, an alternative to “blackleg”
SCAB
Male given name which means “protector of wealth”
EDWARD
A mournful song, especially performed by a single voice
MONODY
Pat ____ was a player in Arsenal’s 1971 double-winning team, and assistant manager when they won two other doubles
RICE
A COLLOQUIAL DESCRIPTION OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING UNWANTED, ESPECIALLY WHEN REAPPEARING
BAD PENNY
In Othello, the jealous lover of Cassio
BIANCA
CAR MANUFACTURER, OF MODEL S AND MODEL X
TESLA
THE NEAREST CITY TO THE RUINS OF ANCIENT CARTHAGE
TUNIS
Russian dog, the first animal to orbit the earth, in 1957
LAIKA
Those who, in law, are now commonly called claimants
PLAINTIFFS
Member of a Turkic ethnic group in eastern Siberia
YAKUT
The term “impressionism” was derived from a painting by this French artist
CLAUDE MONET
Goethe play for which Beethoven wrote incidental music including an overture
EGMONT
Informally, “a lot”
NO END
Pennsylvania is known as the ____ state
KEYSTONE
An Italian dish, literally a medley of fried things
FRITTO MISTO
Joseph ____ wrote Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
CONRAD
Of film, music etc, recorded and ready for release
IN THE CAN
An illusion of countryside created within a city
RUS IN URBE
To date, Denmark’s only female prime minister, currently chief executive of Save the Children
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
To add a new part to something originally made without it
RETROFIT
& 34: The first line of Peter Pan
ALL CHILDREN EXCEPT ONE
Type of stamp which may be produced in wartime, or when a currency changes
OVERPRINT
British guitarist, the only person to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame three times
ERIC CLAPTON
On an Italian menu, secondi piatti
MAIN COURSES
“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
Art of making timepieces, or science of measuring time
HOROLOGY
American term for a pushchair
STROLLER
“There’s such a ____ in melancholy / I would not, if I could, be gay” (Samuel Rogers)
CHARM
Work done by IGN and Freytag & Berndt
MAPMAKING
A state or culture characterised by humanitarianism, equality and political freedom
open society
Bertie Wooster’s haughty and overbearing aunt
AGATHA
North American insect, with notable eyespots
IO MOTH
“The secrets of the hoary deep, ____ without bound” (Paradise Lost)
A DARK ILLIMITABLE OCEAN
“____ / Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard” (Cymbeline)
WEARINESS
British astronomer credited with coining the phrase “big bang”
Fred Hoyle