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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 23
The Times Specialist
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Ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
MESOPOTAMIA
Anne ____ played Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street and Jean in Dinnerladies
REID
America’s Buckeye state
OHIO
A ____ allows both conventional and microwave cooking
COMBINATION OVEN
Netflix black comedy series written by and starring Ricky Gervais as widower Tony
AFTER LIFE
One spelling of the name for a sterile male hybrid of a yak and a cow
DZHO
____ revolutionised steel production in the 1850s
Sir Henry Bessemer
The underworld or, euphemistically, part of the body
NETHER REGIONS
European country with about half the area of the UK, but a similar length of coastline
GREECE
Ancient Roman novel by Petronius Arbiter, about licentious adventures in southern Italy
SATYRICON
In the US, an expert
MAVEN
Apple Inc’s headquarters are in this Californian city
cupertino
A Berkshire town; marshy ground; to shed skin
SLOUGH
The birthplace of Beethoven
BONN
An American duplex house contains two ____
APARTMENTS
Port at the mouth of the River Wear
SUNDERLAND
Antiviral protein produced by infected cells
INTERFERON
Former acronym now largely replaced by GUI (Graphical User Interface), from four of its important elements
WIMP
Austria’s first female chancellor, appointed on an interim basis after the 2019 Ibiza-gate scandal
Brigitte Bierlein
Colloquially, a tablet of the drug Ecstasy
disco biscuit
This meal may be Cornish or Devonian
CREAM TEA
Ford model whose name came to be synonymous with commercial failure
EDSEL
“But ____, just to watch him die” (Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues)
I SHOT A MAN IN RENO
Optical illusion created by the refraction of light
MIRAGE
“Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ____” (Ambrose Bierce)
UNKNOWABLE
____ assassinated John F Kennedy
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Things to be believed, especially articles of faith
CREDENDA
1973 single by Roxy Music; 1979 album by the Crusaders
STREET LIFE
In 1963, Richie ____ became the first player to reach 200 wickets and 2,000 runs in Test cricket
BENAUD
Posh Spice
VICTORIA BECKHAM
South Wales town with a Ford engine plant and Sony’s UK Technology Centre
BRIDGEND
A name for romantic affection which is seen as trite or clichéd
LURVE
“Good company and good ____ are the very sinews of virtue” (Izaak Walton)
DISCOURSE
Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree centigrade
CALORIE
Colloquially, a cold-stimulus headache induced by eating ice cream, for example
BRAIN FREEZE
The first monarch of Russia to use the title of Tsar
IVAN THE TERRIBLE
This may erupt without producing lava
TOOTH
Arts-based documentary series aired since 1975, mainly on BBC Two
ARENA
The owner of Chelsea FC
Roman Abramovich
Babbitt was one of this US author’s best-known books
SINCLAIR LEWIS
In Australia, a gathering of pickup trucks for display and competition
UTE MUSTER
Nintendo console launched in 2001, discontinued in 2007
gamecube
French word for a (full-sized) cup
TASSE
Exclamation, usually subdued, used to express annoyance
GRRR
Skintight garment named after a French trapeze artist
LEOTARD
Pertaining to the belief that natural objects have souls
ANIMISTIC
Capital of the Limburg province of the Netherlands
MAASTRICHT
Another name for London pride, or in North America, catchfly
none-so-pretty