The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 07 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
To go out and enjoy oneself flamboyantly PAINT THE TOWN RED
A ballet step PAS
The Ring nebula can be seen in this constellation LYRA
“She had the ____ precocity of poverty” (Thackeray, describing Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair) DISMAL
Irish type of ring, usually with two hands embracing a heart CLADDAGH
The highest grade of olive oil EXTRA VIRGIN
Forename apparently created by a misspelling in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline IMOGEN
Former department store on the east side of Moscow’s Red Square GUM
Masculine urban dweller, often with a beard and check shirt LUMBERSEXUAL
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a ____” (Henry IV, Part 2) CROWN
The third power of a number CUBE
Newspaper department which deals with business news CITY DESK
____ became the first female chairman of the Conservative party in 2002 THERESA MAY
West Midlands motor manufacturer which became part of the Rootes Group in 1935 SUNBEAM
Volume of air in a container mainly holding liquid ULLAGE
Italy’s third-largest city (after Roma and Milano) NAPOLI
Links between historic structures, discovered or invented by Alfred Watkins in the 1920s LEY LINES
Area between the soft palate and the base of the skull NASOPHARYNX
Former Australian rock band fronted by Michael Hutchence INXS
Main antagonist of The Jungle Book SHERE KHAN
The main product of Bärenreiter and Stainer & Bell SHEET MUSIC
Paramaribo is the capital of this former Dutch colony SURINAME
Bernard ____ played M in eleven Bond films LEE
Iron ____ is often called “fool’s gold” PYRITES
Decorative knot, often made around a cylinder TURKS HEAD
Grandson of Titus in Titus Andronicus YOUNG LUCIUS
Powerful males in an organisation, exercising anonymous influence men in suits
An organ stop imitating the sound of a flute CLARABELLA
Down under, a sleeve keeping one’s beer cold stubby holder
Played by Dustin Hoffman, Michael Dorsey’s alter ego in the 1982 film Tootsie DOROTHY MICHAELS
Another name for the gloaming in which one may roam half-light
An alternative name for yarn bombing guerilla knitting
The second explosive invented by Alfred Nobel, in 1875 GELIGNITE
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, a curate and friend of Holofernes Sir Nathaniel
Germany’s largest port HAMBURG
American actress who is the daughter of Judy Garland LIZA MINNELLI
Ted ____ led the UK’s best-known big band in the 1950s HEATH
BANKRUPT trade-fallen
Popular name of the gardener and BBC presenter closely associated with the Dig for Victory campaign during the Second World War MR MIDDLETON
Name for a complex situation, coined by Walter Scott in his epic poem Marmion a tangled web
Ridged pasta tubes with square-cut ends RIGATONI
Former rock band fronted by Michael Stipe REM
Document listing 80 heresies, issued by the Holy See in 1864 SYLLABUS OF ERRORS
Vlad III, 15th-century voivode of Wallachia, was “the ____” IMPALER
British winner of breaststroke gold at the 2016 Olympics ADAM PEATY
Semi-precious form of chalcedony with bands of colour ONYX
In the Book of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and ____ are thrown into the fiery furnace ABEDNEGO
A ____ may use colours or shading to show land elevation RELIEF MAP
The normal stance for a left-handed boxer SOUTHPAW
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