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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 07 12
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English furniture style of the late 18th century
SHERATON
Carmarthenshire’s largest town
LLANELLI
Ecological zone, often named after its main vegetation
BIOME
The former status of this town in Angus is reflected in the name of its football team
BRECHIN
“A ____ cord is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes)
THREEFOLD
Fastener with two arms pushed through a hole and bent
SPLIT PIN
British javelin thrower whose main rival in the 1980s was Petra Felke
FATIMA WHITBREAD
____ played Howard Kirk in the 1981 BBC adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man
ANTONY SHER
“If anything might ____ him now / The kind old sun will know” (Wilfred Owen)
ROUSE
Animal in the same family as humans and some great apes
HOMINID
Roman poet who had a feud with his former friend Nero
LUCAN
“Whatever our souls are made of, ____” (Wuthering Heights)
HIS AND MINE ARE THE SAME
Swiss ski resort, a popular destination for the international jet set
GSTAAD
Trader exploiting market imperfections
arbitrager
Leguminous tree whose wood is often used as barbecue fuel in the southern USA
MESQUITE
____ Kettle were hillbillies with 15 children in a 1940s and 1950s Universal Studios comedy series
MA AND PA
Grandma and Chalkie often appeared in cartoons by ____
GILES
Hexahedrons of dehydrated bouillon
STOCK CUBES
Australian tennis player, winner of four 1950s grand slam men’s singles titles
LEW HOAD
An Italian lady
SIGNORA
John Major’s successor as leader of the Conservative party
William Hague
America golfer, nicknamed The King, who won the Open in 1961 and 1962
ARNOLD PALMER
Malta’s northwesterly island neighbour
GOZO
Mapping or study of the moon’s features
SELENOGRAPHY
Canadian tennis player, runner-up to Andy Murray in the 2016 Wimbledon men’s singles final
Milos Raonic
“The best bunker buster” according to Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s
DIPLOMAT
American social reformer and suffragist who worked closely with Elizabeth Stanton
SUSAN B ANTHONY
A bitter bark formerly used in medicine
ANGOSTURA
Skin condition characterised by red blisters and itchiness
ECZEMA
The Isle of Man’s Tynwald comprises the Legislative Council and the ____
HOUSE OF KEYS
Aircraft manufacturer founded in Seattle in 1916
BOEING
Daughter of Polonius and lover of Hamlet
OPHELIA
The Open University’s home town
MILTON KEYNES
THE WINDPIPE
TRACHEA
Star Trek character originally played by James Doohan, and more recently by Simon Pegg
MONTGOMERY SCOTT
Kos, Santorini, and Rhodes are some of the ____
AEGEAN ISLANDS
The first British player to participate in a 20th-century world chess championship final
NIGEL SHORT
In French, “faire du ____” is to go cycling
VELO
The capital of Dominica
ROSEAU
Clerical office which is an anagram of SUNDAY BEER
SUBDEANERY
In Zambia, one hundredth of a kwacha
NGWEE
Language with the oldest vernacular literature in Western Europe
IRISH
HAVING A PALE BROWN-YELLOW COLOUR
OCHREOUS
London football club managed by Mikel Arteta
ARSENAL
American union leader and criminal, played by Jack Nicholson in a 1992 film
JIMMY HOFFA
By PH Newby, the first winner of the Booker Prize
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