The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
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