The Times Specialist 2020 04 05 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Angry or excited	HET UP
FIELD GLASSES	BINOCULARS
PERMISSION FROM A BISHOP FOR A PRIEST TO LEAVE A DIOCESE TO TAKE UP A NEW APPOINTMENT ELSEWHERE	EXEAT
The seventh consecutive UK No 1 hit for the Beatles on the Parlophone label, and their first track lasting more than three minutes	TICKET TO RIDE
Musical term meaning “slowly”	LENTO
Early evening BBC TV programme mixing news, consumer affairs and light entertainment, broadcast 1969-83	NATIONWIDE
MEMBER OF A PRACTICALLY EXTINCT US OFFSHOOT OF THE QUAKERS, PRACTISING A CELIBATE AND COMMUNAL LIFESTYLE	SHAKER
Leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis	TEA
Float ____ is made by the Pilkington process	GLASS
007 is thus, as a killer	LICENSED
Secretary of the Bank of England from 1898 to 1908 who wrote a children’s classic	KENNETH GRAHAME
A physical exercise also called the trunk-curl	sit-up
The raft which was sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947	Kon-Tiki
London thoroughfare on which the Athenaeum, the Reform Club and the Travellers Club are situated	PALL MALL
Overshadowed in importance or power	ECLIPSED
Swiss city, the centre of Calvinism in the Reformation	GENEVA
The elected chief of the stranded boys in Lord of the Flies	RALPH
HEAVY HARD-WEARING FABRIC OF COATED CANVAS FOR PROTECTION FROM THE SUN, WIND AND RAIN	TARPAULIN
BBC sports commentator at 11 summer Olympics and long-time presenter of Grandstand and A Question of Sport	DAVID COLEMAN
In the Bible, the youth who received divine protection when thrown into a lions’ den	DANIEL
Structure, normally with slats, which protects windows from the sun in hot countries	Brise-soleil
Composer of Belshazzar’s Feast and Crown Imperial	WALTON
Flexible armour made of riveted metal rings	CHAINMAIL
Roped tussles often seen at county shows and the like	Tugs-of-war
Our associated weekly publication about the world of books	TLS
Actress who has played Raquel Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street, and Celia’s daughter in 28D	SARAH LANCASHIRE
Alain-Fournier’s only novel, about lost love and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood	Le Grand Meaulnes
An important form of communication for users of airports	SIGNAGE
Former docklands are often sites for urban ____ projects	RENEWAL
Tree whose dark purple “berries” are strictly seed cones	JUNIPER
STATE CAPITAL OF WYOMING	CHEYENNE
1.76 pints	ONE LITRE
Romantic comedy about the widowed Alan Buttershaw and Celia Dawson	LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX
Like Florence’s baptistery or Ely Cathedral’s central tower	OCTAGONAL
Vermouth, pastis, or dry sherry, for example	APERITIF
Co-host of The One Show with Christine Bleakley, from 2007 to 2010	ADRIAN CHILES
SMALL, AGILE SONGBIRDS WITH BLACK, WHITE AND PINK PLUMAGE	Long-tailed tits
1st Baron Tweedsmuir, governor of Canada 1935-40, who wrote Huntingtower	JOHN BUCHAN
Host of live music TV programmes The Tube and Later… with ____	Jools Holland
The abbreviated name for Anglesey’s 58-lettered village	LLANFAIR PG
“Of course, fanatical Communists and ____s generally can be respected, even if they are mistaken” (George Orwell)	RUSSOPHILE
BREATHES OUT	EXHALES
To an American, this would be romaine	COS LETTUCE
In cricket, close an innings before the tenth wicket falls	DECLARE
Prizewinning creator of Fleabag	Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Scottish landmark which Robert Louis Stevenson called “A hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design”	Arthur's Seat