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The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 20
The Times Specialist
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Tourist centre in the Conwy valley, with the Swallow Falls nearby
Betws-y-coed
TV science programme hosted by Patrick Moore for over 50 years
THE SKY AT NIGHT
An old name for a fire in a fireplace
INGLE
STARBUCKS EMPLOYEE
BARISTA
Large deer of arctic North America
CARIBOU
Predict what might happen using data already available
EXTRAPOLATE
____ Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister from 1957 until 1985
ANDREI
A small tortilla, topped with melted cheese and spices
NACHO
A spicy biscuit
GINGER SNAP
Large portable cassette recorder or CD player with built-in speakers
GHETTO BLASTER
Large chilli pepper, often dried, used in Mexican cuisine
ANCHO
Standard monetary unit of Malaysia, divided into 100 sen
RINGGIT
Assessing (something’s) possibilities
Weighing up
The worldwide airline trade association founded in 1945
IATA
“____ of cricket” is a detailed but humorous description of the game on tea towels and the like
The ins and outs
Carbon black is an important ingredient of ____, which is used in drawing and calligraphy
INDIAN INK
A kind of nail file
EMERY BOARD
This EFL Championship team’s home games are at Carrow Road
Norwich City
Hide away; give off juices
SECRETE
Golden ____, a popular aquarium fish
ORFE
Ornamental shoulder decoration, especially in military uniforms
EPAULETTE
____ 10 made the first flyby of Jupiter in 1973
PIONEER
Ogden Nash wrote that “Candy / is dandy / But ____ / is quicker”
LIQUOR
1960 Hitchcock horror film starring Anthony Perkins
PSYCHO
Composer of the oratorios Saul and Israel in Egypt
George Frederick Handel
Range of chalk hills which includes the Dunstable Downs
CHILTERNS
A hotel or restaurant wine steward
SOMMELIER
Mexican member of the crystal cubism movement for about four years up to 1917, later married to Frida Kahlo
DIEGO RIVERA
____ and Ulster, the King of Arms who has jurisdiction over Northern Ireland and England north of the Trent
NORROY
The 1859 battle which inspired the foundation of the Red Cross
SOLFERINO
____, introduced in 1974, was the original “Irish cream”
BAILEYS
Nickname of the German Second World War V-2 flying bombs
DOODLEBUGS
German dish of finely shredded and pickled cabbage
SAUERKRAUT
French artist who, with Pablo Picasso, created cubism
Georges Braque
1960s BBC TV show, hosted by David Frost, which lampooned current news stories
That was the Week That Was
A car’s vehicle identification number is stamped on this
CHASSIS
Strong thread made of twisted strands of raw silk
ORGANZINE
Magical transformation into “something rich and strange”, in a song from The Tempest
SEA CHANGE
The Castello Aragonese is connected by causeway to this Bay of Naples island
ISCHIA
Strong steel joists or girders shaped like a letter
i-beams
Non-vitreous pottery, normally fired below 1,200C
EARTHENWARE
Part song such as Frère Jacques or Three Blind Mice
ROUND
“Argosy”, as a name for a large merchant ship, comes from this former name for Dubrovnik
RAGUSA
The only Welshman to be prime minister of the UK
LLOYD GEORGE
Home of the London Borough of Redbridge’s administrative headquarters
ILFORD
Blunt in manner
BRUSQUE
Llandudno’s limestone hill, served by a tramway built in 1902
GREAT ORME