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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 16
The Times Specialist
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Former South African province, previously a Boer republic
TRANSVAAL
Distance between a vehicle’s front and rear axles
WHEELBASE
Actor who starred in the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
EDDIE REDMAYNE
Surname shared by Rowan of comedy and Ron of football
ATKINSON
Fruit used in a liqueur with gin
SLOE
1952 film, starring Gregory Peck, based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
Greenish
VIRIDESCENT
Descriptive name of a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi on an office plaza on New York’s Broadway
RED CUBE
Subcutaneous insulation and energy storage, especially around the kidneys and buttocks
ADIPOSE TISSUE
First track on the album Who Are You by the Who
NEW SONG
“There is no true ____ who is not a hero” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
ORATOR
An orchestral movement in a vocal work
SINFONIA
Fail to maintain one’s normal standards
LAPSE
Twelve semitones
OCTAVE
Part of an act of parliament showing how its provisions are to work in practice
SCHEDULE
Uteri
WOMBS
Before this time, archaically or in literature
ERENOW
The Muslim era, reckoned from AD622
HEGIRA
The shape of a plane’s wing
AEROFOIL
Diego ____ was a Mexican painter noted for his murals
RIVERA
Russian city between Tyumen and Novosibirsk on the Trans-Siberian railway
OMSK
A short nap
FORTY WINKS
Probable architect of the pharaoh Djoser’s pyramid, one of the few commoners deified in ancient Egypt
IMHOTEP
Fragrant shrub of the genus Syringa
LILAC
Where, cryptically, you might have “wild tiger seen”
SERENGETI
____ won three caps for England and went on to manage Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa
Tim Sherwood
Informally, a large cooking pot as used in the West Indies
DUTCHIE
Pen (later official) name of Ricardo Basoalto, often regarded as Chile’s national poet
PABLO NERUDA
Resembling a small star
STELLULAR
Germany’s national card game, a three-hander played with 32 cards, and in many possible bids, an 11-card trump suit
SKAT
Uganda’s seat of government before independence
ENTEBBE
Italian physicist credited with inventing the barometer
Evangelista Torricelli
A laboratory centrifuge’s sample buckets are attached to its ____
ROTOR
Informally, Russia and its allies, especially during the Cold War
EASTERN BLOC
Sudoku solving technique named after a tall building
SKYSCRAPER
The full name of Arthur Sullivan’s musical partner
William Schwenk Gilbert
The first of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
An old name for money, especially if ill-gotten
PELF
“Now the ____ and Pleiades where earth moves / Are drawing up the clouds of human grief” (libretto of Peter Grimes)
GREAT BEAR
Oscar-winning star of Written on the Wind (1952) whose last film appearance was in Basic Instinct
DOROTHY MALONE
Bursting into bloom
FLORESCENT
Greek muse often depicted with a wind instrument
EUTERPE
Punctuation mark whose name comes from Greek for “in one”
HYPHEN
Corrie character played by Peter Adamson, 1961-1983
LEN FAIRCLOUGH
1856 collection of short stories by Wilkie Collins
AFTER DARK
____ is often regarded as the “border” between northern and southern England
WATFORD GAP
The sweetest style of Madeira
MALMSEY
Julius ____ effectively created the state of Tanzania
NYERERE