The Times Specialist 2020 07 19 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
____ starred in the title role of Tom Jones, the 1964 best picture Oscar winner	ALBERT FINNEY
This former companion of Abraham fled from the city of Sodom	LOT
Accommodation such as the Queen Mary in Long Beach	BOATEL
“That was The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, ____ for radio by putting it onto a piece of wood and banging a few nails through it” (Gumby Theatre, Monty Python)	ADAPTED
Cancel out or invalidate	NULLIFY
Flowering soon	IN BUD
Mathematical education equipment in which 1 is represented by a white cube	cuisenaire rods
Foretell the future with a crystal ball or similar object	SCRY
“Kensington ____” is an informal term for stage blood	GORE
Johnny ____ of Fulham was Britain’s first footballer to earn £100 a week, after the 1961 abolition of the £20 maximum wage	HAYNES
Pudding often involving dunked strawberries	Chocolate fondue
Former Pravda editor Nikolai ____ was executed in 1938, after a show trial	BUKHARIN
The Simpsons first appeared on US television as part of The Tracey ____ Show	ULLMAN
WORKED OUT BY REASONING	DEDUCED
Capital city of North Carolina	RALEIGH
&23A: “The biggest word you ever heard and this is how it goes: Oh, ____” (Mary Poppins — 1964 film)	SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC
The US equivalent of bogof	TWOFER
A LONG THIN CIGAR	PANATELLA
The ____s that produce pearls are in a different family from the edible ones	OYSTER
Siberian city where Decembrists were exiled	IRKUTSK
Beef cut containing parts of shoulder bones	CHUCK STEAK
A rule issued by a US president, having the force of law	EXECUTIVE ORDER
International agreement protecting endangered plants and animals, opened for signature in 1973	CITES
What a satnav helps you to do, as some of them say	REACH YOUR DESTINATION
Luther ____ played for Watford FC and AC Milan	BLISSETT
By population, Australia’s fifth-largest city	ADELAIDE
Fashion designer best known for tennis dresses	teddy Tinling
Forename of women’s suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst	EMMELINE
Someone using a noosed rope to catch horses or cattle	LASSOER
Structure abutting the walls of a larger building	lean-to
Norwegian Wood was the first pop song to use this instrument	SITAR
Grade I listed structure on the eastern approach to Bristol Temple Meads station	Avon bridge
Fictional work mainly about personality rather than plot	CHARACTER STUDY
Plant cultivation using mineral nutrients in water	HYDROPONICS
SO FAR	AS YET
The best-known song from the musical No, No, Nanette	TEA FOR TWO
Constellation including the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse	ORION
“Our nada ____ in nada, nada be thy name” (Ernest Hemingway)	WHO ART
Of a ship, to almost stop while facing the wind	LIE TO
French cigarette brand with a gypsy dancer on the packets	GITANES
Accommodation for animals at docks or markets	LAIRAGE
The ____ of Sauron is his main image in The Lord of the Rings	EYE
A dazed state	STUPOR
In the 19th century, most of the world’s supply of this element came from Sicily	SULPHUR
Change from first to second gear, for instance	UPSHIFT
1966 film in which a miniaturised submarine is injected into a scientist’s body to remove a blood clot	FANTASTIC VOYAGE
A SPENDTHRIFT	WASTREL
SEE 1A	expialidocious
Captain Frederick ____ wrote Mr Midshipman Easy	MARRYAT