The Times Specialist 2020 10 04 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
“Our happiest moments are spent trying to ____ new varieties of victimhood” (JG Ballard)	THINK UP
Poetic word for a male lover or suitor	SWAIN
According to a blue plaque on ____, it was the site of the world’s first regular high definition TV broadcasts, in 1936	ALEXANDRA PALACE
Coastal town, south of Cardiff, once known as the Garden by the Sea	PENARTH
Sykurmolarnir, the group which launched the career of Björk	The Sugarcubes
General of the Volscian army in Coriolanus	TULLUS AUFIDIUS
Himalayan region, also called Little Tibet, to the south of K2	baltistan
Opening track of the Beatles album Abbey Road	COME TOGETHER
To succeed, or to bribe	PAY OFF
Those which consisted of ten asses in ancient Rome	DENARII
Became swollen	tumesced
“Royally? Why, it ____ no king?” (Richard II)	CONTAINS
Casual clothing	LEISUREWEAR
A West Indian gang member	YARDIE
Extemporised remarks	ad-libs
Informally, in a helpless position	OVER A BARREL
Director of Dog Day Afternoon	SIDNEY LUMET
The extreme sport of jumping into the sea from a cliff	tombstoning
A name for the House of Lords	Gilded Chamber
The quality of being meagre or scarce	EXIGUITY
The penultimate collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan	UTOPIA LIMITED
Of a nerve, conveying impulses towards the brain or spinal column	AFFERENT
Any organic compound containing the divalent radical –CO.NH.CO.–	IMIDE
The ____ is also known as Custer’s Last Stand	Battle of Little Bighorn
Canadian comedian who presents the BBC Two reality series Hair	Katherine Ryan
1945 children’s novel by E B White, adapted as a partly animated film in 1999	STUART LITTLE
Iconic Star Wars line delivered by Obi-Wan Kenobi	USE THE FORCE LUKE
Francis Xavier ____ is the protagonist of four comic novels by Anthony Burgess	ENDERBY
First name of the central character in The Last of The Mohicans	NATHANIEL
A genus of succulent plants with thick tapering leaves	ALOE
Along with Walking Tune and Mock Morris, Handel in ____ was one of Percy Grainger’s “Room-music tit-bits”	THE STRAND
Soviet Russia’s news agency, created in 1925	TASS
1987 Wim Wenders film about immortal angels in Berlin	Wings Of Desire
Former statute which excluded women from succession to the French crown	SALIC LAW
“I humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry meeting may be wished, God ____ it!” (Much Ado About Nothing)	PROHIBIT
Archaically, a bottomless pit	ABYSM
Building material made with earth, water and organic material such as straw	ADOBE
Traditional Christmas desserts	PLUM PUDDINGS
Short railway tracks used for shunting or storage	SIDINGS
Geological theory which made Alfred Wegener’s concept of continental drift widely accepted	PLATE TECTONICS
Cigarette brand, a sponsor of the former Equipe Ligier Formula One team	GITANES
Of a cow, pregnant	IN CALF
One who has abandoned their religion	APOSTATE
Presenter of BBC News at Six since 2003	George Alagiah
Tennyson’s name for cicadas, apparently a mistranslation from German	balm-crickets
BROTHERS AND SISTERS	SIBLINGS

“Our happiest moments are spent trying to ____ new varieties of victimhood” (JG Ballard)

Poetic word for a male lover or suitor

According to a blue plaque on ____, it was the site of the world’s first regular high definition TV broadcasts, in 1936

ALEXANDRA PALACE

Coastal town, south of Cardiff, once known as the Garden by the Sea

PENARTH

Sykurmolarnir, the group which launched the career of Björk

The Sugarcubes

General of the Volscian army in Coriolanus

TULLUS AUFIDIUS

Himalayan region, also called Little Tibet, to the south of K2

baltistan