The Times Specialist 2020 05 03 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Libreville is the capital of this African country	GABON
The creator of Psmith	PG Wodehouse
The iridescent tarnish of the mineral bornite gives rise to its informal name, “____ ore”	PEACOCK
Margaret Thatcher’s electoral successes of the 1980s were sometimes attributed to ____	ESSEX MAN
Archbishop of York who became lord chancellor in 1475	THOMAS ROTHERHAM
L’____ is a commune located in the Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris	Ile-Saint-Denis
The capital of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province	PIETERMARITZBURG
1988 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine as rival conmen	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Surrey town, first place attacked in The War of the Worlds	WOKING
Latin phrase meaning “pending agreement” in English	AD REFERENDUM
Biblical character who said “I have been a stranger in a strange land”	MOSES
OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM, CORRECTED OR IMPROVED BY ADDING A SMALL SET OF INSTRUCTIONS	PATCHED
AUTHOR OF LORD JIM	Joseph Conrad
The largest of Galway Bay’s Aran Islands	Inis Mor
____ won the best actor Oscar for his role in Marty	ERNEST BORGNINE
Scottish author whose final novel was The Finishing School	Muriel Spark
Emmanuel Chabrier’s best-known composition, a rhapsody for orchestra written after a six-month tour abroad	ESPANA
HORDEOLUM IS THE MEDICAL NAME FOR THIS EYE INFLAMMATION	STYE
Singer who gained fame as Charlene Robinson in Neighbours	KYLIE MINOGUE
SI UNIT OF ELECTRICAL CHARGE	COULOMB
“And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, / That not a single accent seems ____” (Byron, writing about Italian)	UNCOUTH
“Call me ____” (Betty Boothroyd, when asked how she should be addressed as speaker of the House of Commons)	MADAM
Hammond ____ wrote The Wreck of the Mary Deare	INNES
Grammar, rhetoric, and logic, as an introductory course at a medieval university	TRIVIUM
THE GERMAN EQUIVALENT OF CAPTAIN, AS A MILITARY RANK	HAUPTMANN
“And he [Jacob] ____, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven” (Genesis 28:12)	DREAMED
A pig, specifically a castrated male domesticated one	HOG
Use of repeated random sampling to estimate a numerical result which is difficult or impossible to calculate	MONTE CARLO METHOD
Early type of machine gun, used by French forces in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71	MITRAILLEUSE
The world’s longest fence was built to protect sheep from this creature	DINGO
AN UPPER CLASS YOUNG MAN WHO IS LIVELY RATHER THAN USEFUL	HOORAY HENRY
Apt to cause worry	DISQUIETING
Measurement unit for duvets	TOG
Be comparable or compatible	MATCH UP
Biased argument used to win rather than convey truth	special pleading
Oberon and Titania are characters in this Shakespeare comedy	a midsummer night's dream
Mathematical statement using the = sign	EQUATION
HOT DRINKS OF PORT, LEMON JUICE AND SPICES	NEGUSES
Mathematical relationship often expressed as x:y	RATIO
Singer who had a 1988 hit with Twist in My Sobriety	TANITA TIKARAM
A concluding piece of music, or an epilogue	POSTLUDE
A voodoo priestess, or a Latin American dance	MAMBO
Russian satellite, literally “travelling companion”	SPUTNIK
____ played Emma Peel in The Avengers, 1965-68	DIANA RIGG
Latin term for a pot or urn, still used in Spanish	OLLA
Actor who married Lauren Bacall in 1945	HUMPHREY BOGART
Word which can precede uncle and wife	DUTCH
PLANT ALSO KNOWN AS CRANESBILL, FROM THE SHAPE OF ITS SEED PODS	GERANIUM

Libreville is the capital of this African country

GABON

The creator of Psmith

PG Wodehouse

The iridescent tarnish of the mineral bornite gives rise to its informal name, “____ ore”

PEACOCK

Margaret Thatcher’s electoral successes of the 1980s were sometimes attributed to ____

ESSEX MAN

Archbishop of York who became lord chancellor in 1475

THOMAS ROTHERHAM

L’____ is a commune located in the Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris

Ile-Saint-Denis