The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
1980s ITV sitcom about the 1930s industrial north BRASS
Trickster in Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories BRER RABBIT
Uncontrollable and/or obsessive passion amour fou
Sergey ____ broke the men’s pole vault world record 17 times BUBKA
Income from ticket sales at a sporting event GATE MONEY
Chester and Jessica Tate’s snobbish daughter in the US sitcom Soap EUNICE
Australian-born Helen ____’s 1972 single I Am Woman became a feminist anthem REDDY
1953 biblical epic with Richard Burton and Jean Simmons, the first CinemaScope film released THE ROBE
Someone on A Question of Sport who may be doing almost anything Mystery Guest
Amphibian with brightly coloured ventral areas fire-bellied toad
What a company getting into financial trouble does, informally catches a cold
Dessert of strawberries, meringue, and whipped cream ETON MESS
The only winner of Oxford University’s Newdigate prize who became poet laureate ANDREW MOTION
London location of the climactic scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much ROYAL ALBERT HALL
As a fabric, dungaree was a predecessor of ___ DENIM
In their chocolate-coated form, these biscuits are often rated as Britain’s most popular DIGESTIVES
“____, you’re breaking my heart / You’re shaking my confidence daily” (Simon and Garfunkel) CECILIA
EGG-SHAPED OVOID
Spain makes about half the global output of this foodstuff OLIVE OIL
Informally, a man thought to be attractive to women BABE MAGNET
Author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater Thomas De Quincey
Women’s hairstyle often worn for formal events UPDO
The ____ cube is a 3D puzzle, which can be used to make a variety of shapes SOMA
Rock band noted for the albums Discovery and Time ELO
Battle may do this in a familiar phrase COMMENCE
In the King James Bible, the first person to be “drunken” NOAH
A beef cut containing part of a lumbar vertebra T-bone steak
Informally, someone who doesn’t tell you much OYSTER
“While pensive poets ____ vigils keep, / Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep” (Alexander Pope) PAINFUL
Suffolk village, the site of two nuclear power stations SIZEWELL
Thomas ____ wrote the music for Rule, Britannia! ARNE
Herbivorous mammal with a short trunk TAPIR
A final part of a musical work OUTRO
An alternative relative in US expressions like “the mother of all traffic jams” GRANDDADDY
A former English navy recruitment method IMPRESSMENT
Organisation which desired the “overthrow of the international bourgeoisie” COMINTERN
To deteriorate, especially through neglect GO TO SEED
Only Stephen ____ and Eddy Merckx have won the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, and the world road cycling championship ROCHE
British vocal duo who shared the bill with Morecambe and Wise and the Beatles on CBS’s Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 pinky and perky
An American brand of correction fluid Liquid Paper
Informally, the work of a policeman on patrol pounding the beat
The monumental entrance to Berlin’s Unter den Linden BRANDENBURG GATE
The third generation of the iPad ____ was launched in March 2019 AIR
One dancing location in Mary Poppins is the ____ of London ROOFTOPS
Country with South America’s southernmost capital city URUGUAY
A thin wooden slat on a cord, used as a musical instrument and signalling device bull-roarer
“Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, / Strong and content I travel the ____” (Walt Whitman) OPEN ROAD
Coronation march by William Walton CROWN IMPERIAL
Official name for a “Beefeater” YEOMAN WARDER
Agreements between the UK and France, signed in 1904 ENTENTE CORDIALE