The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2021 05 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Trim and neat, in good order SHIPSHAPE
Composer of Le Tombeau de Couperin and La Valse RAVEL
Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya or Sudra in Hindu society CASTE
____ International is a global human rights organisation AMNESTY
____ desperandum means “do not despair” NIL
Tony Blair went to school at ____ College in Edinburgh FETTES
Shrill or piping REEDY
In poetry, a ____ rhyme is between stressed syllables followed by identical unstressed ones, as in “merrily” and “verily” FEMININE
Stephen Potter’s 1952 book about gaining an advantage one-upmanship
Short section of sharp bends in a motor-racing track CHICANE
In Cecile Aubry’s novel and its film adaptations, Belle is Sebastian’s ____ mountain dog PYRENEAN
Before 2017, Britain’s only 12-sided coin Threepenny bit
The German for “boy” junge
US short-story writer William Sidney Porter’s pseudonym O HENRY
TV cooks Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson TWO FAT LADIES
Short trousers, often worn at Munich’s Oktoberfest LEDERHOSEN
Record company, part of Universal Music Group since 2012 EMI
The Toffees EVERTON
The gift of money or property from a will LEGACY
Stretch of road on which motorists should not stop CLEARWAY
Organ manual which controls soft sweet-toned pipes CHOIR
One of two main formal accompaniments to a DJ BLACK TIE
Investigations by coroners INQUESTS