The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 17

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