The Times Specialist 2020 10 11 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
____ starred with David Niven in Please Don’t Eat the Daisies	DORIS DAY
Isabella Linton’s brother in Wuthering Heights	EDGAR
The dangling extension of the soft palate	UVULA
The best-selling studio album of 1974 in the UK, by Paul McCartney and Wings; a description of an active Fanfara dei Bersaglieri ensemble in the Italian army	BAND ON THE RUN
2006 DreamWorks film about hungry animals raiding food in suburbia	OVER THE HEDGE
Helen ____ played Catriona in Absolutely Fabulous	LEDERER
Sailing vessel with only its foremast square-rigged (spelling with only one A)	BARQUENTINE
____ replaced Sitka as Alaska’s capital in 1906	JUNEAU
David ____ won the 400m hurdles at the 1968 Olympics	hemery
Avant-garde arts movement launched in Italy in 1909	FUTURISM
A not necessarily respectful name for an important person	WORTHY
An apparent bodily substance representing vigorous work	ELBOW GREASE
The end of Leonard Sachs’s introduction to the final chorus of The Old Bull and Bush in The Good Old Days	but chiefly yourselves
Euphemism used in Monty Python’s “How to recognize different parts of the body” sketch	naughty bits
Full of excitement and enthusiasm about something new	ABUBBLE
Jacob ____’s sculptures include St Michael’s Victory over the Devil, on the east wall of Coventry Cathedral	EPSTEIN
Mammals with continuously growing incisors	RODENTS
The heel of Italy’s “boot”	APULIA
Margot Fonteyn’s best-known partner was Rudolf ____	NUREYEV
Australia’s Test cricket captain, 1999-2004	STEVE WAUGH
What Italians call a “ferrovia”	RAILWAY
Device that can be used to record a cycle ride	Helmet cam
Something achieving a desired result ____	does the business
India’s Border Security Force ____ Band is the world’s first military band of its kind	CAMEL
“Do you find you can’t finish the ____ like you used to […]?” (Doc Morrissey in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)	CROSSWORD
World of Sport anchorman, 1968-85	DICKIE DAVIES
Having a pH value less than seven	ACIDIC
GT stands for the Italian phrase “gran ____”	TURISMO
Australian arboreal marsupial, also called a phalanger	POSSUM
Device accumulating electric charge on a hollow metal globe	Van de Graaff generator
Product providing a steady flow of income	CASH COW
A Chinese tea made with partly fermented leaves	OOLONG
A group of travellers using 10Ds	CARAVAN
The River Rothay links Grasmere and ____ Water	RYDAL
Polish-born pianist Artur ____’s last concert was at the Wigmore Hall in 1976	RUBINSTEIN
In 1941, artist Roland Penrose wrote the ____ Manual of Camouflage	HOME GUARD
Sport with 15 players on each side and H-shaped goalposts	HURLING
Indicating pain or a requirement	CRYING OUT
To pass through a membrane or porous barrier	OSMOSE
BBC TV quiz show which included “dummy keyboard” and “hidden melody” rounds	FACE THE MUSIC
Dan Brown’s fourth novel about Robert Langdon, which starts in Florence	INFERNO
Sinclair Lewis novel satirising evangelism, filmed in 1960	ELMER GANTRY
1979 comedy horror film in which Count Dracula is expelled from his castle by a communist government	Love At First Bite
Chansons de ____ are medieval verse romances about heroic deeds	GESTE
US informal name for a large office divided into sections for individual workers	cube farm
Union territory between Harayana and Uttar Pradesh	DELHI
Informal description of goods awaiting a decision to buy or return	ON APPRO
The mounts of the Band of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments	BICYCLES