The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 07 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
OLD TERM FOR AN ATTIC OR GARRET sky parlour
THE FISH HAWK OSPREY
The state of being foul or disgusting REPULSIVENESS
A SHORT SUPPORTING TIMBER; A CASK; A POINTED TOOL PUNCHEON
BRITISH PUBLIC TRANSPORT GROUP ACTIVE FROM 1994 TO 2002 railtrack
The first English tennis player to reach a Wimbledon semi-final after Roger Taylor in 1973 TIM HENMAN
The Los Angeles ____ have won 16 NBA championships LAKERS
The man who Jesus raised from the dead LAZARUS
Walking stick made from a dwarf palm’s stem PENANG LAWYER
Comic actor who said his requirements were “A park, a policeman and a pretty girl” CHARLIE CHAPLIN
East Midlands town where production of Carlsberg’s Special Brew started in the 1950s NORTHAMPTON
US actress born Mary Collins BO DEREK
Period of heat in female animals OESTRUS
A FRENCH-BASED NAME FOR ONE TALKING PRETENTIOUS NONSENSE BLAGUEUR
In ’Allo ’Allo, the French resistance leader played by Kirsten Cooke MICHELLE DUBOIS
Lily the Pink was a 1968 hit for the ____ SCAFFOLD
Magnesium sulphate is also known as ____ salts EPSOM
THOSE WHO SACKED ROME IN AD455 VANDALS
LOW HILLS OF SAND DUNES
An infatuation, from French for a throat obstruction ENGOUEMENT
“The ____ is a bad guesser” (Thomas De Quincey) PUBLIC
“Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure / As the ____ lily, I protest” (Love’s Labours Lost) UNSULLIED
____ depicted Stalinism, more realistically than most Soviet writers, in The Thaw ILYA EHRENBURG
____ played goth teenager Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice WINONA RYDER
“The firm, the ____, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue” (Confucius) ENDURING
A neuron NERVE CELL
Austrian physician noted for his use of hypnosis FRANZ MESMER
One who fears open spaces AGORAPHOBE
Norway’s prime minister since 2013 ERNA SOLBERG
An article of food, usually pluralised to mean food generally VIAND
THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF A PLAY OR SHOWING OF A FILM PREMIERE
Member of the nightshade family reputed to shriek when uprooted MANDRAKE
MP for Birmingham Ladywood 1983-2010 Clare Short
Of medicine, acting by absorption after application to the skin ENDERMIC
One of the original Coronation Street characters, played by Pat Phoenix Elsie Tanner
AUTHOR OF OUT OF AFRICA KAREN BLIXEN
STARS WHOSE BRIGHTNESS SUDDENLY INCREASES BEFORE GRADUALLY FADING NOVAE
MUSICIAN AND PRODUCER WHOSE CONSECUTIVE ALBUMS PLAY AND 18 BOTH REACHED NO 1 IN THE UK CHARTS MOBY
ISLAND GROUP FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE NEW HEBRIDES VANUATU
WHAT MAY BE INDICATED BY AN UPSIDE-DOWN FLAG DISTRESS
IN A ____ MOVEMENT, TWO SEPARATE MILITARY FORCES CONVERGE ON AN ENEMY PINCER
PUNGENT MATERIAL WHICH CAN BE SYNTHETICALLY DERIVED FROM TURPENTINE CAMPHOR
CANADIAN SNOOKER PLAYER BEATEN IN A 1997 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SEMI-FINAL BY THE EVENTUAL CHAMPION KEN DOHERTY ALAIN ROBIDOUX
Clarified butter often made from buffalo milk GHEE
Co-founder, with Malcolm Sargent, of the London Philharmonic Orchestra THOMAS BEECHAM
Food show host and author of How to Eat NIGELLA LAWSON
Former “Bake Off” winner who made the Queen’s 90th birthday cake Nadiya Hussain
ACTOR RENOWNED FOR HIS ROLE AS SPOCK IN STAR TREK LEONARD NIMOY