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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 06 28
The Times Specialist
Clue
Answer
River which flows through Lake Geneva
RHONE
Any of Scotland’s 282 separate peaks over 3000 feet high
MUNRO
Founded in Perth in 1976, the UK’s largest bus company
STAGECOACH
Physicist who worked on electricity and magnetism
AMPERE
Region including Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji
MELANESIA
Unaccompanied secular part-songs of the 16th century
MADRIGALS
MEDIOCRE
so-so
Business costs not attributable to individual products
OVERHEADS
Large area where Spanish and Portuguese are spoken
LATIN AMERICA
Common name for various bivalve molluscs, especially Mytilus edulis
MUSSEL
PROVOKE TO ACTION
INCITE
Two of these offences are linked with lions and slow-moving tree creatures
DEADLY SINS
Elvis Presley's third film and its title song, the first record to enter the UK charts at No 1
JAILHOUSE ROCK
A “classic” baseplate for this toy shows its name 1024 times
LEGO
“The world’s largest dedicated online grocery retailer”, founded in 2000
OCADO
Lord ____ was a lifelong advocate for penal reform
LONGFORD
Audiences traditionally stand for this Handelian chorus
HALLELUJAH
Joseph Conrad novel set in Costaguana, a fictional country
NOSTROMO
LIGHT FLUFFY DISH MADE BY ADDING STIFFLY BEATEN EGG WHITES TO A ROUX AND SAVOURY OR SWEET FLAVOURING INGREDIENTS
SOUFFLE
Silent film star, one of the founders of United Artists
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
House of the Rising Sun was the only UK No 1 hit by the ____
ANIMALS
MADE A SURVEY WITH A BASELINE AND ANGULAR MEASUREMENT
TRIANGULATED
Rich tapestries were named after this northern French city
ARRAS
A young pilchard; a variety of chalcedony
SARDINE
INDIAN DISH OF YOGHURT WITH SPICES AND CHOPPED VEGETABLES, ESPECIALLY CUCUMBER
RAITA
ONE WHO REFUSES TO RECOGNISE THE TRUTH
OSTRICH
A cathedral cleric
CANON
Former TV quizmaster who created the educational website HistoryWorld
Bamber Gascoigne
Sir Mark ____ has been the Hallé Orchestra’s Music Director since 2000
ELDER
According to the Odyssey, ____ detained Odysseus for seven years
CALYPSO
Part of Westminster Abbey where Chaucer was buried
Poets' Corner
____ played George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
SIR ALEC GUINNESS
The most difficult toe jump in figure-skating
LUTZ
Loose fibre from old rope, used to caulk seams in wooden ships
OAKUM
Chinese silk straight dress with stand-up collar and side slit
CHEONGSAM
Ukraine-born US violinist who said that he played “music that solves all human problems: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven”
ISAAC STERN
Novelist influenced by Edouard Dujardin’s Les lauriers sont coupés, an early example of stream of consciousness
JAMES JOYCE
Organisation maintaining world order in a 1960s TV series
UNCLE
A FAWN COLOUR, ESPECIALLY OF DRESSES OR COATS
CAMEL
A regular ____ can be described as a triangular pyramid
TETRAHEDRON
Cheshire location of the main Bentley car factory
CREWE
UNTIL 1974, THE PARTS OF ___ WAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE AREA IN LINCOLNSHIRE, INCLUDING BOSTON AND SPALDING
HOLLAND
Very large dog breed, with a rough shaggy coat
IRISH WOLFHOUND
Extreme northern location; an uttermost point or degree
ULTIMA THULE
GREEK GODDESS OF YOUTH AND SPRING
HEBE
Terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, opened in 1837, and controversially rebuilt in the 1960s
EUSTON STATION
GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY OF A SHAPE, WHICH MAY BE ROTATIONAL OR REFLECTIVE
SYMMETRY
An emotional display, often embarrassing for onlookers
SCENE
Game like charades, with acted rhymes of a clue word
DUMB CRAMBO
Lincolnshire market town, important in the medieval wool trade
STAMFORD
Essex island, which became a holiday destination in the first half of the 20th century
CANVEY