The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
A large animal; slang for money RHINO
A tool used for cutting and shaping wood ADZE
OF THE EAR OTIC
To walk in an ostentatious way (from a step in square dancing) SASHAY
____ Island is the northernmost part of Northern Ireland RATHLIN
Popular resort of Sydney, New South Wales BONDI BEACH
Toxic gas whose chemical formula is a refusal NITRIC OXIDE
Ancient Turkish city, the birthplace of St Paul TARSUS
____ join a hardback book’s covers and pages ENDPAPERS
The spore-bearing inner mass of puffball fungi GLEBA
FILM DIRECTOR WHO WON TWO OSCARS FOR GANDHI RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
“The moon’s an ____ thief” (Timon of Athens) ARRANT
Philosopher associated with the concept of the superman NIETZSCHE
One of Pakistan’s two official languages URDU
French fashion designer who co-hosted the 1990s TV series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes Jean-Paul Gaultier
The ____ di Siena is a horse race first held in its “modern” form in 1633 PALIO
Fictional diarist created by Helen Fielding for a newspaper column in 1995 BRIDGET JONES
Character from a symbol font (computing) or, in America, a wild party WINGDING
Denoting a physical action stimulated by thought Ideomotor
Luciano ____ (1937-2005), Italian tenor PAVAROTTI
WEAK GLUE-LIKE MIXTURE USED TO PREPARE WALLS BEFORE PAPERING OR PLASTERING SIZE
Rhythmical stress in prosody, or a sudden attack caused by a medical condition ICTUS
To call abundance in solo whist and take eight tricks OVERBID
The form of skiing which is not Nordic ALPINE
Just before going to bed LAST THING
The battle of ____ was America’s first major offensive in France during the First World War Saint-Mihiel
Fruit sometimes called a “shaved peach” NECTARINE
The lioness in Born Free ELSA
A SMALL ISLAND IN A RIVER EYOT
A semicircular moulding, especially at the top or bottom of a column ASTRAGAL
____ performed the theme tune to the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only SHEENA EASTON
Also known as Bury Park, Luton Town FC’s former home ground DUNSTABLE ROAD
Informally, the Deutsches Reich, 1918-1933 WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Site of the battle which started the American Civil War FORT SUMTER
Main character of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted video games Nathan Drake
Polish pianist and composer who served as his country’s prime minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Henry David ____ wrote Walden THOREAU
Russian name for a legislative assembly’s lower house DUMA
A regular presenter of the world’s longest-running children’s TV show, from 1962 to 1972 VALERIE SINGLETON
Grange Hill character given a spin-off series, 1983-1985 TUCKER JENKINS
Actor whose most famous role was that of Alf Garnett Warren Mitchell
Sans-serif typeface created by Hermann Zapf and released in 1958 OPTIMA
Will-o’-the-wisp, or a delusive hope IGNIS FATUUS
Location of Caledonian MacBrayne’s busiest terminal OBAN
River after which one of Germany’s states is named SAAR
“About the sixth hour, when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that ____ which is called supper” (Love’s Labour’s Lost) NOURISHMENT
Canova sculpture in St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum THREE GRACES
GREEK GOD OF THE SUN APOLLO
The first word of a fairy tale, typically ONCE
Greek city linked to Epirus by the country’s only undersea tunnel preveza