The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 04 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Prizewinning creator of Fleabag Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Roped tussles often seen at county shows and the like Tugs-of-war
Secretary of the Bank of England from 1898 to 1908 who wrote a children’s classic KENNETH GRAHAME
Our associated weekly publication about the world of books TLS
Host of live music TV programmes The Tube and Later… with ____ Jools Holland
Structure, normally with slats, which protects windows from the sun in hot countries Brise-soleil
The raft which was sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 Kon-Tiki
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
To an American, this would be romaine COS LETTUCE
Scottish landmark which Robert Louis Stevenson called “A hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design” Arthur's Seat
The abbreviated name for Anglesey’s 58-lettered village LLANFAIR PG
Tree whose dark purple “berries” are strictly seed cones JUNIPER
Alain-Fournier’s only novel, about lost love and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood Le Grand Meaulnes
BBC sports commentator at 11 summer Olympics and long-time presenter of Grandstand and A Question of Sport DAVID COLEMAN
Co-host of The One Show with Christine Bleakley, from 2007 to 2010 ADRIAN CHILES
Composer of Belshazzar’s Feast and Crown Imperial WALTON
MEMBER OF A PRACTICALLY EXTINCT US OFFSHOOT OF THE QUAKERS, PRACTISING A CELIBATE AND COMMUNAL LIFESTYLE SHAKER
“Of course, fanatical Communists and ____s generally can be respected, even if they are mistaken” (George Orwell) RUSSOPHILE
Angry or excited HET UP
Overshadowed in importance or power ECLIPSED
Romantic comedy about the widowed Alan Buttershaw and Celia Dawson LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX
Actress who has played Raquel Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street, and Celia’s daughter in 28D SARAH LANCASHIRE
1.76 pints ONE LITRE
1st Baron Tweedsmuir, governor of Canada 1935-40, who wrote Huntingtower JOHN BUCHAN
A physical exercise also called the trunk-curl sit-up
The elected chief of the stranded boys in Lord of the Flies RALPH
007 is thus, as a killer LICENSED
PERMISSION FROM A BISHOP FOR A PRIEST TO LEAVE A DIOCESE TO TAKE UP A NEW APPOINTMENT ELSEWHERE EXEAT
An important form of communication for users of airports SIGNAGE
Flexible armour made of riveted metal rings CHAINMAIL
SMALL, AGILE SONGBIRDS WITH BLACK, WHITE AND PINK PLUMAGE Long-tailed tits
Musical term meaning “slowly” LENTO
BREATHES OUT EXHALES
HEAVY HARD-WEARING FABRIC OF COATED CANVAS FOR PROTECTION FROM THE SUN, WIND AND RAIN TARPAULIN
STATE CAPITAL OF WYOMING CHEYENNE
Early evening BBC TV programme mixing news, consumer affairs and light entertainment, broadcast 1969-83 NATIONWIDE
Former docklands are often sites for urban ____ projects RENEWAL
Swiss city, the centre of Calvinism in the Reformation GENEVA
Leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis TEA
London thoroughfare on which the Athenaeum, the Reform Club and the Travellers Club are situated PALL MALL
Vermouth, pastis, or dry sherry, for example APERITIF
In the Bible, the youth who received divine protection when thrown into a lions’ den DANIEL
In cricket, close an innings before the tenth wicket falls DECLARE
Float ____ is made by the Pilkington process GLASS
Like Florence’s baptistery or Ely Cathedral’s central tower OCTAGONAL
FIELD GLASSES BINOCULARS