The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 04 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
IN 1937 A ____ REPLACED BRITANNIA ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF FARTHINGS WREN
Caramel-like cheese made partly or wholly from goat’s milk GJETOST
Football club whose first shirt sponsor was the Japanese electronics company Sharp, for 18 seasons starting with 1982-83 MANCHESTER UNITED
A SUN LOUNGE OR GREENHOUSE ON THE SIDE OF A HOUSE CONSERVATORY
Representing expectations rather than reality ON PAPER
Port in southwest Finland, the capital city before Helsinki TURKU
In geometry, a transformation with no change in shape or size, such as rotation ISOMETRY
The best-known exponent of Catalan modernism Antonio Gaudi
The apposite nickname of an American folk artist who was born in 1860 and died in 1961 GRANDMA MOSES
Word such as “bagel”, “chutzpah”, or “mensch” YIDDISHISM
Victorian overcoat, with a shorter cape than an Inverness ULSTER
Someone who wants power or wrongly thinks they have it MEGALOMANIAC
Tomas de Torquemada was Spain’s first Grand ____ INQUISITOR
The planet orbited by the Cassini probe from 2004 to 2017 SATURN
The only Briton to win gold in an Olympic javelin final Tessa Sanderson
Latin for “hail” or “welcome” SALVE
Joseph ____ wrote the poem “Stille Nacht” for which Franz Gruber wrote a melody and guitar accompaniment in 1818 MOHR
In Greek myth, a mountain nymph OREAD
In British usage, the object of this verb is nearly always a flint KNAP
If you ____ something, you made it feasible or likelier PAVED THE WAY FOR
BODY OF LAND BETWEEN CARDIGAN AND CAERNARFON BAYS LLEYN PENINSULA
Kind of memory normally used for computer firmware read-only
The protagonist in Thomas Hardy’s final novel JUDE FAWLEY
The world’s longest river flowing into an inland body of water rather than the sea VOLGA
The capital and largest city of Chad N'Djamena
The third pharaoh of Egypt’s 19th dynasty Rameses the Great
A North American tribe or confederation of tribes NATION
SOMEONE INVOLVED IN CRIME AND/OR VIOLENCE HOODLUM
STANDARD OF COMPARISON USED TO CHECK EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS CONTROL
BRITISH WINNER OF BEST ACTRESS OSCARS FOR HOWARDS END AND SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Emma Thompson
1988 film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, which won four Oscars including best picture RAIN MAN
Beef shoulder or brisket, cured, spiced, smoked and steamed PASTRAMI
“Valued for their racemes of foxglove-like flowers, ____s are elegant and reliable border perennials” (RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers) PENSTEMON
An inducement to accept a deal SWEETENER
A pinkish semi-precious stone ROSE QUARTZ
A name for diesel fuel, derived from an acronym DERV
A mountainside mass of loose stones SCREE
A ____ story is often one about human kindness HEARTWARMING
“That’s easy” or “It doesn’t matter” NO SWEAT
1990s BBC comedy series starring Dawn French in crime and thriller parodies MURDER MOST HORRID
17th-century Spanish painter noted for his portraits (spelling with no 's') DIEGO VELAZQUEZ
13th-century Earl of Leicester who led baronial opposition to Henry III and was briefly the de facto ruler of England SIMON DE MONTFORT
“Good afternoon. Shouldn’t you be at work?” (Des ____, introducing TV coverage of an England World Cup match) LYNAM
____ spectabilis is better known as bleeding heart DICENTRA
1972 film about a public schoolboy who became a cavalry officer, war correspondent and MP Young Winston
WHAT SOME PEOPLE DO WITH ESPRESSO AND PAELLA MISPRONOUNCE
Body part, of cephalopod molluscs such as squid ink-sac
Component in electronics, producing a false result when all inputs are true NAND gate