The Times Specialist 2020 05 17 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Cheap home used during the post-1945 housing shortage	PREFAB
US novelist, born in Manchester, who wrote The Secret Garden	FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Knighted Czech-born playwright who wrote Jumpers and Travesties	TOM STOPPARD
Inflammation of nasal air cavities	SINUSITIS
Where the reaction of the loggionisti to a singer’s performance can be infamously critical	LA SCALA
Hungarian body of water, the largest in central Europe	Lake Balaton
The first of seven temporary facilities with this name was opened at London’s ExCel Centre on April 3	Nightingale Hospital
Named train service from Paddington to Temple Meads, inaugurated by the Great Western Railway in 1935	bristolian
Roman province in the southwest of the Iberian peninsula	LUSITANIA
Edible marine gastropod, also called “ear shell”	ABALONE
Twelfth and final studio album by the Beatles, which was commercially successful but received mixed reviews	LET IT BE
____ software is old, but hard to replace owing to wide use	LEGACY
A provincial governor of ancient Persia	SATRAP
Its groves are the world of learning	ACADEME
Dressing with capers and pickles, usually served with fish	TARTAR SAUCE
Grammatical case for the object of a sentence	ACCUSATIVE
NELSON LOST AN EYE DURING A SIEGE OF THIS CORSICAN SEAPORT IN 1794	CALVI
NECK SWELLINGS CREATED BY ENLARGED THYROID GLANDS	GOITRES
Broadway musical based on an American comic strip	ANNIE
A ____ window is hinged on one side	CASEMENTED
THE DOMED LONDON ____, IN MARYLEBONE ROAD, IS NOW PART OF THE NEIGHBOURING MADAME TUSSAUDS	PLANETARIUM
THE MOLUCCAS, FLORIDA KEYS OR ALEUTIAN ISLANDS	ARCHIPELAGO
Foodstuff, of which beluga is the most expensive kind	CAVIARE
Extract from gall nuts used as a fixative in dyeing	TANNIC ACID
A “leaver”, before the 2017 referendum campaign	EUROSCEPTIC
SWEET WHITE FROM THE SOUTH OF THE BORDEAUX WINE REGION, SOMETIMES SERVED WITH 11D	SAUTERNES
ANCESTOR	FOREFATHER
The reason for Joseph and Mary’s journey to Jerusalem	CENSUS
1960s pop singer who appeared in two Carry On films, and guest-starred as the medium Shyanna in a 2019 EastEnders episode	ANITA HARRIS
An Evening Standard review calls Michael Frayn’s ____ Off “the funniest farce ever written”	NOISES
In heraldry, another name for a St Andrew’s cross	SALTIRE
Novel by PC Wren about the adventures of three English brothers in the French foreign legion	BEAU GESTE
THE 1832 ____ ACT EXTENDED THE FRANCHISE IN BRITAIN, ESPECIALLY IN INDUSTRIAL TOWNS	REFORM
Larry ____ played Archie Mitchell in EastEnders	LAMB
DYNASTY CHARACTER ORIGINALLY PLAYED BY JOAN COLLINS	ALEXIS
West Indies bowler, first spinner to take 300 Test wickets	Lance Gibbs
James Baldwin’s semi-autobiographical novel about John Grimes’s relationship with his family and the church	GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Camra’s favourite tipple	REAL ALE
US actress who starred in the films Of Human Bondage (1934) and Jezebel	BETTE DAVIS
A skier’s padded trousers, held up by shoulder straps	SALOPETTES
Great or Little East Anglian river	OUSE
Fruit covering; an unseen hazard	BANANA SKIN
The boastful coward of commedia dell’arte	SCARAMOUCH
Russian statesman who introduced the liberalising 28As of glasnost and perestroika	GORBACHEV
Actor who starred in the 1960s films A Kind of Loving, Georgy Girl and Women in Love	ALAN BATES
Composer Schoenberg, or golfer Palmer	ARNOLD

Cheap home used during the post-1945 housing shortage

PREFAB

US novelist, born in Manchester, who wrote The Secret Garden

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Knighted Czech-born playwright who wrote Jumpers and Travesties

TOM STOPPARD

Inflammation of nasal air cavities

SINUSITIS

Where the reaction of the loggionisti to a singer’s performance can be infamously critical

LA SCALA

Hungarian body of water, the largest in central Europe

Lake Balaton