The Times Specialist 2020 09 06 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Rush mat commonly used as a floor covering in Japan	TATAMI
Device attached to film cameras which allows four bursts of illumination	FLASHCUBE
To remove a harness or, more generally, set free	UNYOKE
“When you tell people that you are studying maths at uni, they are like, ‘Oh …’. Especially a blonde ____ girl” (Rachel Riley)	ESSEX
Former Revolutionary Communist Party member, later a Brexit Party MEP, recently nominated for a peerage	Claire Fox
The first UK National Hunt jockey to record 150 wins in one season, in 1988-89	Peter Scudamore
Irish city on the banks of the River Nore in Leinster	KILKENNY
Philip ____ wrote The Duke of Milan	MASSINGER
Vessel with wing-like structures raising its hull at speed	HYDROFOIL
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the character named after a car	FORD PREFECT
Alternative name for a Tibetan monastery	LAMASERAI
Dianthus barbatus, a garden pink	SWEET WILLIAM
2013 film comedy about a bogus family including a drug dealer, virgin, stripper, and runaway	We're The Millers
Particle in a cell which synthesises protein	RIBOSOME
The Sheik of ____ is a jazz standard, covered by the Beatles in their unsuccessful audition for Decca in 1962	ARABY
IN GREEK MYTH, THE SON OF CLYTEMNESTRA AND AGAMEMNON	ORESTES
1/x is the ____ of x	RECIPROCAL
Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker was based on a story by this German author	E T A Hoffmann
Rust is hydrated ____	IRON OXIDE
“Everyone leaves” as a stage instruction	EXEUNT OMNES
Main antagonist of The Merchant of Venice	SHYLOCK
American actress, a L’Oréal “spokesmodel” since 1985	ANDIE MACDOWELL
Entirely (from Latin)	IN TOTO
The role of Camilla Long at the Sunday Times	FILM CRITIC
Medical term for lack of strength, rare in British usage	ADYNAMIA
A widow or unmarried woman, or one who trades independently of her husband	feme sole
Documents issued to neutral merchant vessels to allow safe passage during wartime	sea letters
Historical region associated with the Dracula stories	TRANSYLVANIA
1973 Martin Scorsese film starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro	MEAN STREETS
The London Peace Pagoda is in ____ Park	BATTERSEA
Conventional title of Psalm 51	MISERERE
Italian city, home of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	IMOLA
Someone from Muscat or Salalah	OMANI
London street; the British government or civil service	WHITEHALL
Edinburgh’s port	LEITH
Argentinian footballer who died in a plane crash in 2019	Emiliano Sala
Greek island whose principal town is Myrina	LEMNOS
____ onions are often pickled	SILVERSKIN
Shields bearing coats of arms	ESCUTCHEONS
One of the front four teeth in each human jaw	INCISOR
Final novel in Henry Miller’s controversial trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion	NEXUS
Noel Gay musical featuring The Lambeth Walk	Me and My Girl
Main location of the Jim Carrey comedy film The Mask	Edge City
French director whose films included Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) and Muriel	ALAIN RESNAIS
A southwestern Pacific island was named after this English county	NORFOLK
The navigational head of the Missouri River is at ____, Iowa	SIOUX CITY
French winner of the World Rally Championship six times, 2013-18	Sebastien Ogier
Victor Hugo character rarely seen without her goat, Djali	ESMERALDA

Rush mat commonly used as a floor covering in Japan

Device attached to film cameras which allows four bursts of illumination

To remove a harness or, more generally, set free

“When you tell people that you are studying maths at uni, they are like, ‘Oh …’. Especially a blonde ____ girl” (Rachel Riley)

ESSEX

Former Revolutionary Communist Party member, later a Brexit Party MEP, recently nominated for a peerage

Claire Fox

The first UK National Hunt jockey to record 150 wins in one season, in 1988-89

Peter Scudamore

Irish city on the banks of the River Nore in Leinster

KILKENNY

Philip ____ wrote The Duke of Milan