The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2020 11 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Form of Buddhism practised in Myanmar and Thailand THERAVADA
Welsh valleys CWMS
____ was originally called Byzantium ISTANBUL
Former county named after its main river AVON
A designer of haute couture FASHIONISTA
A Eucharistic offering to God OBLATION
An American illusionist; a Charles Dickens novel DAVID COPPERFIELD
The UK’s biggest selling single of 1971 MY SWEET LORD
One of two cells which combine to form a zygote GAMETE
Become enclosed in an abnormal bodily sac ENCYST
A house in Italy or Spain CASA
African country formerly called Nyasaland MALAWI
Celestial body, from a Greek word meaning “wanderer” PLANET
Three-syllable phrase abbreviated in nine syllables WORLD WIDE WEB
A boisterous laugh GUFFAW
Inflammation of glands, especially lymph nodes ADENITIS
“Great drama […] must have dimension and its ____ will take care of itself” (Robertson Davies) RELEVANCE
The youngest winner (at age 29) of a best actor Oscar, for his role in The Pianist Adrien Brody
Beer, to an Australian SHERBET
FIELD GLASSES BINOCULARS
An enemy aircraft, in Second World War RAF lingo BANDIT
America’s “Beaver State” OREGON
Narrator and central character of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson DAVID BALFOUR
Star Trek: Voyager character portrayed by Garrett Wang Harry Kim
Former England manager popularly known as El Tel TERRY VENABLES
Fiercely determined TIGERISH
A Shia religious leader AYATOLLAH